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Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Dorothy Wellesley | She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson
, Matthew Arnold
, Swift
's... |
Education | Rudyard Kipling | Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK
was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway
forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned... |
Education | Winifred Peck | WP
's next school was one run at Eastbourne by a Miss Quill, and which she and her sister attended as day-girls. The school was selected by the great-aunt to whose house they were sent... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
was a great-niece of the poet Tennyson
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Boyle | MB
's niece Audrey
married Hallam Tennyson
, son of Alfred Tennyson
. Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray. xviii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | Unlike the funerals of other royal servants, John Brown
's was a lavish affair, complete with a card on the coffin from the queen, which read, in her own handwriting: A tribute of loving, grateful... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Githa Sowerby | Githa's mother, born Amy Margaret Hewison, was a corn-merchant's daughter, and heiress to a fortune bringing in nine hundred pounds a year. Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 27 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
Fictionalization | Margaret Roper | Fictional portraits of MR
have flowed in a steady stream, often adopting the colouring of later ages, as Tennyson
's MR
in Dream of Fair Women, 1832, is a near-Victorian ideal, and Paula Vogel |
Fictionalization | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
was an inspiration to several of her literary peers. George Meredith
probably had her in mind in drawing his character Lady Dunstane in Diana of the Crossways. (His Lady Dunstane is a close... |
Timeline
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
1867-1870: During this period, photographer Julia Margaret...
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1867-1870
During this period, photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
took some of her best known portraits of famous men.
1867-8: Tennyson's Idylls of the King appeared serially...
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1867-8
16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...
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16 May 1871
Henry S. King
(husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King
) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co.
at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul
in 1877, it...
May 1875: Venturing into drama, Alfred Tennyson published...
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May 1875
Venturing into drama, Alfred Tennyson
published a play entitled Queen Mary.
November 1880: Alfred Tennyson published Ballads and Other...
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November 1880
Alfred Tennyson
published Ballads and Other Poems, which included Rizpah, The Defence of Lucknow, and The Revenge.
1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...
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1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...
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28 September 1883
A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant
, gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors
, to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
5 January 1884: Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan's...
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5 January 1884
Sir W. S. Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan
's Princess Ida has its first performance, at the Savoy Theatre
in London.
November 1885: Alfred Tennyson published Tiresias, and Other...
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November 1885
Alfred Tennyson
published Tiresias, and Other Poems.
12 December 1889: Alfred, Lord Tennyson published Demeter and...
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12 December 1889
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
published Demeter and Other Poems.
March 1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Foresters: Robin...
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March 1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
's The Foresters: Robin Hood & Maid Marion had its first performance at Daly's Theatre
in New York.
1896-2 June 1913: Alfred Austin served as poet laureate from...
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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.
1910: The Elizabeth Arden beauty salon, whose name...
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1910
The Elizabeth Arden
beauty salon, whose name was inspired by Tennyson
's poem Enoch Arden, began in New York; it was established by the Canadian-American Florence Nightingale Graham
.
4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...
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4 June 1940
Winston Churchill
made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons
.
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