Alfred Tennyson

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Standard Name: Tennyson, Alfred
Used Form: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Intertextuality and Influence Lady Margaret Sackville
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...
Leisure and Society Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell , Arnold Bennett , Rhoda Broughton , Lucy Clifford , Henry James , Elizabeth Robins , the Tennyson s, Josephine Ward , and Margaret Woods .
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray.
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Leisure and Society Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall
Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer...
Leisure and Society Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin.
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on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...
Literary responses Eliza Ogilvy
One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson and the BrowningsRobert Browning .
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Literary responses Menella Bute Smedley
Henry Buxton Forman praised MBS 's poetry in his 1871 book of criticism on living poets. Classing her alongside Tennyson and Jean Ingelow in the Idyllic School, he nevertheless singled out her gift for...
Literary responses Elizabeth Charles
By 1848, EC was praised by such notable people as historian J. A. Froude and Alfred Lord Tennyson , who read her early manuscripts.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Froude saw touches of genuine genius
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
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in her early...
Literary responses Menella Bute Smedley
A generation later A. H. Miles declared that MBS was by nature a poet.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge.
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Although Miles faulted her earlier poems for their tendency to mysticism,
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge.
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he claimed that many of her...
Literary responses Cecil Frances Alexander
Tennyson is reputed to have envied CFA the writing of The Burial of Moses, as well as The Legend of Stumpie's Brae.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Critic Séan McMahon believes the latter ballad to be the best...
Literary responses Annie S. Swan
Helen C. Black reported that ASS carefully preserved a letter of praise from Tennyson about A Victory Won—but, as with Swan's letter from Gladstone, she must have got the wrong novel, since Tennyson had...
Literary responses Alice Meynell
AM later condemned her early preludes, but the book received praise from Tennyson , Aubrey Thomas de Vere , and Ruskin , who thought A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age,...
Literary responses Robert Browning
This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett , since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...
Literary responses Eliza Cook
John Westland Marston , reviewing anonymously for the Athenæum, contrasted EC unfavourably with Tennyson but said that while we cannot credit Miss Cook with much imagination or with any striking power to copy reality...

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