Alfred Tennyson

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 .

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...

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...

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...

WP 's next school was one run at Eastbourne by a Miss Quill, and which she and her sister attended as day-girls. The school was selected by the great-aunt to whose house they were sent...

CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...

She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate ) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short...

RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...

CO badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which...

The success of AO 's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray s, Tennyson , and Swinburne . She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth .