Alfred Austin

Standard Name: Austin, Alfred

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Cultural formation	Isa Blagden	Little is known of IB 's early life or parentage. Unsubstantiated rumours suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a white English father and an Indian mother. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 69 The register of her burial, however...
Friends, Associates	Frances Cornford	Frances's association with Rupert Brooke began with the rehearsals for the play and grew into friendship. They discussed their poetry with each other, and Frances counselled and consoled Rupert in his many love affairs. She...
Friends, Associates	Violet Fane	VF made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning , Algernon Swinburne , Alexander William Kinglake , Alfred Austin , the Duchess of Argyll , James McNeil Whistler , and Lillie Langtry
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth von Arnim	In 1898, after reading Alfred Austin 's The Garden That I Love, EA set herself to writing about her daily life as a mother, wife, reader, and nature-lover at Nassenheide, her husband's ancestral estate...
Literary responses	Isa Blagden	IB believed that her literary strength lay in poetic rather than prose composition, and critics William Raymond and Alfred Austin agreed with her appraisal. Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. xii , 1943, pp. 446-63. 446 Austin, Alfred, and Isa Blagden. “Memoir”. Poems, William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. viii Austin found her seven sonnets, The Seven Chords of...
Reception	Alice Meynell	AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...
Reception	Isa Blagden	Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster. qtd. in West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982. 446 IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
Textual Production	Ouida	Ouida was granted a Civil List pension of £150 per year, largely through the efforts of Alfred Austin , George Wyndham , and Lady Paget . Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Textual Production	Isa Blagden	Poems, a posthumous collection of IB 's poetry, was prepared by Alfred Austin and published by William Blackwood . Blagden, Isa, and Alfred Austin. Poems. William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. title-page

Timeline

1835

Future poet laureate Alfred Austin was born at Headingley.

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1896-2 June 1913

Alfred Austin served as poet laureate from this year until his death. The post had been left vacant since Tennyson's death in October 1892.

The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.

Tennyson, Charles. Alfred Tennyson. MacMillan, 1949.

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Texts

Austin, Alfred, and Isa Blagden. “Memoir”. Poems, William Blackwood and Sons, 1873.

Blagden, Isa, and Alfred Austin. Poems. William Blackwood and Sons, 1873.