Alfred Tennyson

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...

ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...

The novel opens with a lie by the heroine's selfish mother, who thereby diverts a marriage proposal from her daughter's suitor Sir John Dampier, for whom the mother herself has a mad fancy of...

Her central figure, Alfred White, a park-keeper in a London borough based on that of Brent, is an old-fashioned ex-soldier who combines integrity, compassion, and intense pride in his job, with a violent temper...

In the preface, CEH explains that her Manners for Women was met with such a kindly reception that I am encouraged to follow it up with the present little volume. She expands here on...

Her friend Tennyson became a literary mentor after the death of her father, and helped her with the ending of The Village on the Cliff.A further influence was illustrator Frederick Walker whose...

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

Influenced by Eliot 's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. It is structured as a four...

The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson , the BrowningsRobert Browning , and her father .The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR 's childhood, still in the 1850s a venerable...

Whereas on love EG sounds overwhelmingly passionate, on marriage she sounds noticeably cynical. In a section of the book devoted to the question, Why Marriage is Often a Failure, she suggests that because marriage...

In the early years of her success, ESVM credited as her influences Tennysonfor narrative power and technical innovations and Housman for his emotional attitude and spare poignancy of expression.

The novel's title foregrounds GF 's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...

Mary Beaudesert, V. S. (1923) is about a young woman who, despite all odds and obstacles, succeeds in becoming a veterinarian and winning the heart of her beloved. In The Golden Rose, 1924,...

The historical Sappho had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne ; Michael Field 's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...