Alfred Tennyson

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...