Alfred Tennyson

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...

Mary Beaudesert, V. S. (1923) is about a young woman who, despite all odds and obstacles, succeeds in becoming a veterinarian and winning the heart of her beloved. In The Golden Rose, 1924,...

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...

Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson , Edward FitzGerald , and John Allen . His brief time at university also...

AS 's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson , Tennyson , Robert Browning (who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau (brother of...

She dedicated it to James Martineau in honour of their friendship of sixty years. Her preface says: To the learned I have nothing to offer, but hopes to appeal to students and readers. She...

Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...

Helen C. Black reported that ASS carefully preserved a letter of praise from Tennyson about A Victory Won—but, as with Swan's letter from Gladstone, she must have got the wrong novel, since Tennyson had...

Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...

In a one-volume anonymous Hurst and Blackett reprint of 1860 the title-page quotes Tennyson on the rosebud garden of girls. The book is dedicated to Margaret, my sister, feeling sure, that the seven other sisters...

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. Githa found her undemonstrative and unloving; she even called her (quoting Tennyson

Henry Buxton Forman praised MBS 's poetry in his 1871 book of criticism on living poets. Classing her alongside Tennyson and Jean Ingelow in the Idyllic School, he nevertheless singled out her gift for...

A generation later A. H. Miles declared that MBS was by nature a poet. Although Miles faulted her earlier poems for their tendency to mysticism, he claimed that many of her...

ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...

ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .