Alfred Tennyson

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

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

Further submissions to the Athenæum were rebuffed as too infected with Tennyson ian mannerisms.

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

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...

The poems take up various late-Victorian feminist issues, and their topicality and title seem to make them an implicit rebuttal of Tennyson 's nostalgic Idylls of the King. In A Woman's Ethics (perhaps an...

In 1857 she became acquainted with Alfred Lord Tennyson .

ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .

He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson 's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott 's Flora MacIvor.

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...

Henry Buxton Forman praised MBS 's poetry in his 1871 book of criticism on living poets. Classing her alongside Tennyson and Jean Ingelow in the Idyllic School, he nevertheless singled out her gift for...

A generation later A. H. Miles declared that MBS was by nature a poet. Although Miles faulted her earlier poems for their tendency to mysticism, he claimed that many of her...

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. Githa found her undemonstrative and unloving; she even called her (quoting Tennyson

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...

Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...