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|---|---|---|
| Education | Florence Dixie | 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... |
| Education | Adrienne Rich | 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... |
| Education | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | 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... |
| Education | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche and her family made a cult of Tennyson
, whom they visited at his home. MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable, 1985. 17-18 |
| Education | Dorothy Wellesley | 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... |
| Education | Winifred Peck | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Boyle | MB
's niece Audrey
married Hallam Tennyson
, son of Alfred Tennyson
. The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/. Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902. xviii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Githa Sowerby | Githa's mother, born Amy Margaret Hewison, was a corn-merchant's daughter, and heiress to a fortune bringing in nine hundred pounds a year. Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North, 2009. 27 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
was a great-niece of the poet Tennyson
. |
| Fictionalization | Lucie Duff Gordon | 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... |
| Fictionalization | Margaret Roper | Fictional portraits of MR
have flowed in a steady stream, often adopting the colouring of later ages, as Tennyson
's MR
in Dream of Fair Women, 1832, is a near-Victorian ideal, and Paula Vogel |
Timeline
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
264-5
1867-1870: During this period, photographer Julia Margaret...
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1867-1870
During this period, photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
took some of her best known portraits of famous men.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
95-6
1867-8: Tennyson's Idylls of the King appeared serially...
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1867-8
Tennyson
's Idylls of the King appeared serially in an edition illustrated by Gustave Doré
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...
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16 May 1871
Henry S. King
(husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King
) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co.
at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul
in 1877, it...
May 1875: Venturing into drama, Alfred Tennyson published...
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May 1875
Venturing into drama, Alfred Tennyson
published a play entitled Queen Mary.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
227-8
November 1880: Alfred Tennyson published Ballads and Other...
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November 1880
Alfred Tennyson
published Ballads and Other Poems, which included Rizpah, The Defence of Lucknow, and The Revenge.
Martin, Robert Bernard. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. Clarendon Press, 1983.
529
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...
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1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
195-7
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
102
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
125
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
389-90
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
143
“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.
28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...
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28 September 1883
A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant
, gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors
, to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
Parker, Derek. “Onward to 3000”. The Author, Vol.
cx
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, pp. 166-8. 166-7
5 January 1884: Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan's...
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5 January 1884
Sir W. S. Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan
's Princess Ida has its first performance, at the Savoy Theatre
in London.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
II: 1102
November 1885: Alfred Tennyson published Tiresias, and Other...
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November 1885
Alfred Tennyson
published Tiresias, and Other Poems.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
271-3
12 December 1889: Alfred, Lord Tennyson published Demeter and...
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12 December 1889
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
published Demeter and Other Poems.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3244 (1889): 883
Martin, Robert Bernard. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. Clarendon Press, 1983.
571
March 1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Foresters: Robin...
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March 1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
's The Foresters: Robin Hood & Maid Marion had its first performance at Daly's Theatre
in New York.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
177
Beetz, Kirk H. Tennyson: A Bibliography, 1827-1982. Scarecrow Press, 1984.
133
Martin, Robert Bernard. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. Clarendon Press, 1983.
525, 578
1896-2 June 1913: Alfred Austin served as poet laureate from...
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1896-2 June 1913
Alfred Austin
served as poet laureate from this year until his death. The post had been left vacant since Tennyson's
death in October 1892.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Tennyson, Charles. Alfred Tennyson. MacMillan, 1949.
383
1910: The Elizabeth Arden beauty salon, whose name...
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1910
The Elizabeth Arden
beauty salon, whose name was inspired by Tennyson
's poem Enoch Arden, began in New York; it was established by the Canadian-American Florence Nightingale Graham
.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
389
4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...
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4 June 1940
Winston Churchill
made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons
.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, and Simon Schama. We shall fight on the beaches. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Texts
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