Alfred Tennyson

Her central figure, Alfred White, a park-keeper in a London borough based on that of Brent, is an old-fashioned ex-soldier who combines integrity, compassion, and intense pride in his job, with a violent temper...

The novel's title foregrounds GF 's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...

In 1868 CFT and her sisters sat for a series of group portraits by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , titled The Rosebud Garden of Girls. The title derives from a line in Alfred Tennyson

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF ) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson 's Mariana.

The most important publication of the Victoria Press to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter and dedicated by permission to...

The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...

On leaving school at sixteen, Peggy Whistler (later ME ) went abroad to teach English, apparently some maths, and drawing at a school in Touraine in France: Cours Saint-Denis in Loches. She disliked this...

The volume includes the titular long poem Stella, about the doomed love between an Italian patriot and the daughter of a nobleman, which critic Francis O'Gorman describes as echoing Tennyson'sMaud (published twelve years...

Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning , Frederic Leighton , Clara Schumann , Alfred Tennyson , Dean Stanley , J. A. Froude

The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman 's ownership. One of her own contributions...

LDG was an inspiration to several of her literary peers. George Meredith probably had her in mind in drawing his character Lady Dunstane in Diana of the Crossways. (His Lady Dunstane is a close...

Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton , a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne and Lord Monteagle ; writers William Thackeray , Charles Dickens , Emily Eden , Elliot Warburton , Alfred Tennyson

People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed...

Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...