Alfred Tennyson

Blanche and her family made a cult of Tennyson , whom they visited at his home.

Initially learning at home, Penelope became well versed in the Authorised Version, tales of Greece and Rome, The Arabian Nights and not much else. She was passionately addicted to Greek mythology, but...

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

The most important publication of the Victoria Press to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter and dedicated by permission to...

The volume is dedicated to Tennyson and his wife Emily .

To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...

Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB was, historian Alex Owen argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...

Early Blossoms, A Collection of Poems Written Between Eight and Fifteen Years of Age, published in 1840 with a memoir of FH at the price of a shilling, actually reprinted the text of FH