Alfred Tennyson

On leaving school at sixteen, Peggy Whistler (later ME ) went abroad to teach English, apparently some maths, and drawing at a school in Touraine in France: Cours Saint-Denis in Loches. She disliked this...

The most important publication of the Victoria Press to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter and dedicated by permission to...

The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...

Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF ) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson 's Mariana.

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

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

The novel's title foregrounds GF 's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...

MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...

Her central figure, Alfred White, a park-keeper in a London borough based on that of Brent, is an old-fashioned ex-soldier who combines integrity, compassion, and intense pride in his job, with a violent temper...

As a girl, the future EG loved to hear Tennyson 's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald 's The...

Whereas on love EG sounds overwhelmingly passionate, on marriage she sounds noticeably cynical. In a section of the book devoted to the question, Why Marriage is Often a Failure, she suggests that because marriage...

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.

With her marriage, AG became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria , Heinrich Schliemann , and James Froude shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning and Henry James on...

Another occupation of her later years was a printing press which she set up at Canford. Among its productions were two poems by Tennyson .

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...