Alfred Tennyson

The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...

This is probably the novel of which an anecdote is told of Tennyson on holiday, tramping all day across the rugged terrain of Dartmoor with his nose in a CY book.

Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. This farcical presentation of Victorian life...

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .

Though the Feminist Companion says that Miss Silver is a character [i]n the mould of Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple, she actually predates Miss Marple by two years. She is a former governess who now...

This classic story opens with Rachel Treherne, unmarried and in her thirties, coming in a state of acute anxiety to consult Miss Silver at the latter's home, which is also her office. Rachel's colouring should...

She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson , Matthew Arnold , Swift 's...

DW 's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee...

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...

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...

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...

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