Alfred Tennyson

Her central figure, Alfred White, a park-keeper in a London borough based on that of Brent, is an old-fashioned ex-soldier who combines integrity, compassion, and intense pride in his job, with a violent temper...

In the preface, CEH explains that her Manners for Women was met with such a kindly reception that I am encouraged to follow it up with the present little volume. She expands here on...

Her friend Tennyson became a literary mentor after the death of her father, and helped her with the ending of The Village on the Cliff.A further influence was illustrator Frederick Walker whose...

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

Influenced by Eliot's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. It is structured as a four...

The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson, the Brownings Robert Browning, and her father.The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR's childhood, still in the 1850s a venerable...

Whereas on love EG sounds overwhelmingly passionate, on marriage she sounds noticeably cynical. In a section of the book devoted to the question, Why Marriage is Often a Failure, she suggests that because marriage...

The historical Sappho had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne; Michael Field's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...

In the early years of her success, ESVM credited as her influences Tennyson for narrative power and technical innovations and Housman for his emotional attitude and spare poignancy of expression.

The novel's title foregrounds GF's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...

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,...

The poems take up various late-Victorian feminist issues, and their topicality and title seem to make them an implicit rebuttal of Tennyson's nostalgic Idylls of the King. In A Woman's Ethics (perhaps an...

Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...

LMS's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed...