Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Hickey | Before she was twenty EH discovered the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Tennyson, which inspired her to begin composing narrative poems. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 168 |
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, 1981. 272-3 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray, 1924. 285-7 |
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, 1985. 116 |
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 | 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 |
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, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 629 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 340 |
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, 1905–1907, 12 vols. 8: 328 Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 1905–1907, 12 vols. 8: 328 |
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, 1990. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1995, pp. 101-9. 106 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott... |
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 | Charlotte Yonge | This is probably the novel of which an anecdote is told of Tennyson on holiday, tramping all day across the rugged terrain of Dartmoor with his nose in a CY book. Georgina Battiscombe thinks that... |
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 | Jean Ingelow | A response from Tennyson to this early work found promise in the young poet. Though he did identify some flaws, he explained that if the book were not so good I should not care for... |
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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