Alfred Tennyson

Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...

One of the poems collected here, Homeward Bound, is strikingly similar in subject to Tennyson 's later Enoch Arden, but Tennyson's son disavowed any influence despite the fact that his father owned the volume.

By 1877 AP was said to be second only to Tennyson in the sales of her work, and, as Bessie Rayner Belloc said, her poems must have penetrated into every reading household in Great Britain...

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

ATR 's From an Island: A Story and Some Essays appeared: the novella From an Island depicts Tennyson 's circle and his house at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.

ATR 's Reminiscences prefaced Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends, an elegant folio edition of photographs by her friend Julia Margaret Cameron .

ATR published Records of Tennyson , Ruskin , and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning ).

ATR travelled with her father's friend and soon hers, the photographer Julia Cameron . At Freshwater, she became a close companion of Alfred Tennyson .

Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell , Arnold Bennett , Rhoda Broughton , Lucy Clifford , Henry James , Elizabeth Robins , the Tennyson s, Josephine Ward , and Margaret Woods .

The novel opens with a lie by the heroine's selfish mother, who thereby diverts a marriage proposal from her daughter's suitor Sir John Dampier, for whom the mother herself has a mad fancy of...

Her friend Tennyson became a literary mentor after the death of her father, and helped her with the ending of The Village on the Cliff. A further influence was illustrator Frederick Walker whose...

The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson , the BrowningsRobert Browning , and her father . The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR 's childhood, still in the 1850s a...

The volume is dedicated to Tennyson and his wife Emily .

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson and Browning had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London.