Alfred Tennyson

Her parents often hosted musical and cultural events that drew visitors from London's artistic circles. As a girl, MEC would have seen Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt, Fanny Kemble...

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...

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

AP's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Thomas Moore, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Longfellow, and Henry James. Intimates of the household included...

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...

Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH also met Robert Browning, Walter Pater, Henry James, and Alfred Tennyson (whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)...

He shared a wide and varied social circle with his wife, as well as forging his own connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, and Alfred Tennyson.

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

SOJ had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter and Louise Guiney, and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe (whose funeral she and Annie Fields attended in...

The success of AO's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the Browning Robert Browning s, the Carlyle Thomas Carlyle s, the Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray s, Tennyson, and Swinburne. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth.

GJ's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan, who became a close friend and for whom GJ acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold; and...

LSC was apparently inspired by the same Italian poem (Cento Novelle Antiche) that inspired Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott three years later. Scholar Roger Simpson suggests that, at the very least,...

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's Maud (published twelve years...

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

Verona's title poem embeds a number of lyrics within its novelistic structure. Tennyson's influence is particularly apparent in Serenada, which opens: Now folds the cistus, now / The lemon-blossom sleeps (echoing...