Alfred Tennyson

MB met Alfred Tennyson; he became a good friend, and following the death of her close friend Lady Marian Alford in 1888 he sent her the poem To Mary Boyle.

CP's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Ruskin. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse. Among...

When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray and Alfred Tennyson.

A year after AM published her Preludes, Tennyson invited her and her sister to his home at Aldworth in Berkshire, where he told her that he was hurt because she had not sent...

EC, however, ascribes the formative moments in her intellectual development to other sources. She counts among her early influences and inspirations writers Harriet Martineau and Anne Trelawny, and naturalist and artist Colonel Hamilton Smith

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.

Following her early conquest of Tennyson, AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan, Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

ATR travelled with her father's friend and soon hers, the photographer Julia Cameron. At Freshwater, she became a close companion of Alfred Tennyson.

Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen, Tennyson, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Eliza Meteyard, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens

During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin, Jane and Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, and Charles Kingsley....

FPC's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot, Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett, Charles Kingsley, W. E. H. Lecky, Sir Charles Lyell

In 1857 she became acquainted with Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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

JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell. She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...

With her marriage, AG became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria, Heinrich Schliemann, and James Froude shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning and Henry James on...