Alfred Tennyson

Following the death of Tennyson , JI was considered for the position of Poet Laureate.

This second lecture takes as its epigraph the invocation in Tennyson 's The Princess of men and women working side by side in council, hearth, and the tangled business of the world. It enlarges...

EJ gave a lecture at Lincoln at the annual dinner of the Tennyson Society , which was published, leaflet style, as Tennyson and Dr. Gully.

FTJ was a great-niece of the poet Tennyson .

SOJ had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter and Louise Guiney , and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe (whose funeral she and Annie Fields attended in...

GJ 's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan , who became a close friend and for whom GJ acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover ; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold ; and...

Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.

PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...

When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray and Alfred Tennyson .

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.

Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned...

Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice , forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , and Edward FitzGerald during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge

In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...

DL never went to school, but was educated at home by her mother up to the age of twelve. She then began ballet lessons (for which she had a passion, but which caused her to...

She took her title from a line in Tennyson 's Break, break, break, a poem which powerfully conveys a sense of desolation and despair. She dedicated her novel to Mrs Lupton , her former...