Alfred Tennyson

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...

AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...

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:...

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...

Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett , who...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...

Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.