Alfred Tennyson

She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .

Heywood and Son , the Manchester publishers whom IB had known since childhood and who were issuing a collected edition of her works, published her new novel More than Coronets (titled from a poem by...

This, called only The Mirror Crack'd in the US edition the following year (so that the quotation from Tennyson becomes easy to miss), was followed by A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 (in which Miss Marple's...

DW 's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee...

SC published a lengthy review (anonymous, according to custom) of Tennyson 's The Princess in the Quarterly Review.

Further submissions to the Athenæum were rebuffed as too infected with Tennyson ian mannerisms.

During the same year, 1911, BWC contributed Thackeray and his Father's Family to the Cornhill (new series 31), and the following year, 1912, she contributed An Impression of Thackeray in his Last Years to the...

The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman 's ownership. One of her own contributions...

CB was a balladeer and poet who composed music for songs written by herself and by others such as Alfred Tennyson and Charlotte Brontë . Over the span of eleven years she composed about a...

Tennyson had a closer personal relationship than any other writer with the Queen. QV and her court appointed him Poet Laureate on 19 November 1850. Following Prince Albert 's death and the Queen's deepened appreciation...

ED 's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning , George Grote , Thomas Huxley ,...

FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle

On leaving school at sixteen, Peggy Whistler (later ME ) went abroad to teach English, apparently some maths, and drawing at a school in Touraine in France: Cours Saint-Denis in Loches. She disliked this...

Beyond her own activities, which included correspondence with several writers, especially Alfred Tennyson , QV was a devoted patron of the arts who not only fostered their development but also envisioned them as having a...

Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF ) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson 's Mariana.