Alfred Tennyson

Helen C. Black reported that ASS carefully preserved a letter of praise from Tennyson about A Victory Won—but, as with Swan's letter from Gladstone, she must have got the wrong novel, since Tennyson had...

AS 's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson , Tennyson , Robert Browning (who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau (brother of...

She dedicated it to James Martineau in honour of their friendship of sixty years. Her preface says: To the learned I have nothing to offer, but hopes to appeal to students and readers. She...

Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...

Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson , Edward FitzGerald , and John Allen . His brief time at university also...

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...

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,...

Dear and Honoured Lady: The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson was published, edited by Hope Dyson and Charles Tennyson .

Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...

Beyond her own activities, which included correspondence with several writers, especially Alfred Tennyson , QV was a devoted patron of the arts who not only fostered their development but also envisioned them as having a...

Tennyson had a closer personal relationship than any other writer with the Queen. QV and her court appointed him Poet Laureate on 19 November 1850. Following Prince Albert 's death and the Queen's deepened appreciation...

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...

At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911. Waring was widely read and used by congregations in both England and the...

Like much of AW 's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , as well as earlier poets such as John Keats . Many poems here, including...

She refers to the campaign for the vote as a side-effect of a disturbance in the relation of the sexes, of the Paradisaical, or Milton ic, subordination of women. It is in fact the...