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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... |
Occupation | Charlotte Guest | Another occupation of her later years was a printing press which she set up at Canford. Among its productions were two poems by Tennyson
. Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray. 8 |
Occupation | Lewis Carroll | He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, and Alfred Lord Tennyson
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham
; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth
, Scott
, Tennyson
, and Browning
. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago. 66 |
Occupation | Margiad Evans | On leaving school at sixteen, Peggy Whistler (later ME
) went abroad to teach English, apparently some maths, and drawing at a school in Touraine in France: Cours Saint-Denis in Loches. She disliked this... |
Occupation | Queen Victoria | Beyond her own activities, which included correspondence with several writers, especially Alfred Tennyson
, QV
was a devoted patron of the arts who not only fostered their development but also envisioned them as having a... |
Occupation | Violet Fane | Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF
) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson
's Mariana. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
Occupation | Camilla Crosland | She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about... |
politics | Queen Victoria | Tennyson
had a closer personal relationship than any other writer with the Queen. QV
and her court appointed him Poet Laureate on 19 November 1850. Following Prince Albert
's death and the Queen's deepened appreciation... |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning
, George Grote
, Thomas Huxley
,... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA
to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle |
Author summary | Charlotte Barnard | CB
was a balladeer and poet who composed music for songs written by herself and by others such as Alfred Tennyson
and Charlotte Brontë
. Over the span of eleven years she composed about a... |
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