Alfred Tennyson

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Standard Name: Tennyson, Alfred
Used Form: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR published Records of Tennyson , Ruskin , and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning ).
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Mary Boyle
Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton
Textual Production L. T. Meade
LTM published A Sweet Girl-Graduate, whose title (originally from Tennyson 's The Princess) has been much used by other writers).
The words of the title have featured in a sentimental poem by Helen Steiner Rice
Textual Production Anne Ogle
In the new foreword, Ogle explains that she wrote the book in the despair of youth.
Handley, Graham. “George Eliot and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>A Lost Love</span&gt”;. The George Eliot Fellowship Review, Vol.
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She suggests by allusion to Tennyson that youthful sorrows can also lead to personal awakening. In the story...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC borrowed a title from Tennyson for The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (in which a film is being shot at St Mary Mead, where Miss Marple lives), the first of her three Marple...
Textual Production Julia Stretton
In a one-volume anonymous Hurst and Blackett reprint of 1860 the title-page quotes Tennyson on the rosebud garden of girls. The book is dedicated to Margaret, my sister, feeling sure, that the seven other sisters...
Textual Production Ruth Padel
RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...
Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
PH said her first push in the direction of writing came when I was nine years old. My English teacher gave a typically painful assignment, a composition on the subject of How I Spent My...
Textual Production Charlotte Barnard
These two songs are the only works by CB published under her real name: some time after this, she adopted the pseudonym Claribel. She may have taken this pseudonym from Alfred Tennyson 's poem...
Textual Features A. Mary F. Robinson
In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...
Textual Features Adelaide Procter
One of the poems collected here, Homeward Bound, is strikingly similar in subject to Tennyson 's later Enoch Arden, but Tennyson's son disavowed any influence despite the fact that his father owned the volume.
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research.
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Textual Features Emma Caroline Wood
The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
Textual Features Augusta Gregory
The play itself, entitled Colman and Guaire, is based on the local Irish legend of Saint Colman and King Guaire, drawn from the stories of workhouse inmates and other people around Coole.
Gregory, Augusta. My First Play. Elkin Mathews and Marrot.
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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

Tennyson 's Idylls of the King appeared serially in an edition illustrated by Gustave Doré .

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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