Alfred Tennyson

LTM published A Sweet Girl-Graduate, whose title (originally from Tennyson 's The Princess) has been much used by other writers).

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

As mentioned above, Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment was widely circulated, selling nearly eighty thousand copies in its first year. A letter addressed to CM concerning the publication of English Hearts and...

Edmund, narrator of this novel, is another old man: cautious, hierarchically minded, yet remembering his past as a young radical. He fell in love with Clarice de Vere —whose name recalls Tennyson 's Lady Clara...

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

The novel is set in the fictional United States mill town of Minton, where the eponymous hero establishes a radical workers' newspaper. The story advocates labour reforms as proposed by the Knights of Labour ...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

Initially learning at home, Penelope became well versed in the Authorised Version, tales of Greece and Rome, The Arabian Nights and not much else. She was passionately addicted to Greek mythology, but...

In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.