Alfred Tennyson

A year after AM published her Preludes, Tennyson invited her and her sister to his home at Aldworth in Berkshire, where he told her that he was hurt because she had not sent...

In 1859 Charles and Fanny visited the Tennyson family in the Isle of Wight, where, much to FK 's delight, Tennyson read her the whole of his poem Maud.

Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

In 1868 CFT and her sisters sat for a series of group portraits by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , titled The Rosebud Garden of Girls. The title derives from a line in Alfred Tennyson

CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...

During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen , Tennyson , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Eliza Meteyard , who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens

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

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...

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...

FTJ was a great-niece of the poet Tennyson .

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 . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...

MB 's niece Audrey married Hallam Tennyson , son of Alfred Tennyson .

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...