Alfred Tennyson

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...

The novel takes place in the ugly town of Brombridge, whose industrial character is mentioned, but only fleetingly explored. Sellcuts', the town's music hall, burns down in mysterious circumstances. The manager, the dashing Paul...

Her most commonly printed poem, Philip My King, anticipates, using biblical imagery, the entire life of her godson Philip Bourke Marston. The speaker entreats him, when he marries, to Rule kindly, /...

She refers to the campaign for the vote as a side-effect of a disturbance in the relation of the sexes, of the Paradisaical, or Milton ic, subordination of women. It is in fact the...

The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...

MEB infused a touch of poetry more literally by frequent allusion to works by Tennyson, including Mariana, The Deserted House, and The Lotos-Eaters. Her trademark use of other authors' texts as...

Before she was twenty EH discovered the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Tennyson, which inspired her to begin composing narrative poems.

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

AM's associations with Aubrey de Vere, Patmore, and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

Like Alfred Tennyson's poem of the same title seventy years before, this one concerns the character in Greek mythology who received the gift of eternal life with no accompanying grant of eternal youth, and...

The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished...

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...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley, Soeur Monique of Wordsworth, An Unmarked Festival...

MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...

The novel opens with a lie by the heroine's selfish mother, who thereby diverts a marriage proposal from her daughter's suitor Sir John Dampier, for whom the mother herself has a mad fancy of...