Alfred Tennyson

EC , however, ascribes the formative moments in her intellectual development to other sources. She counts among her early influences and inspirations writers Harriet Martineau and Anne Trelawny , and naturalist and artist Colonel Hamilton Smith

By 1848, EC was praised by such notable people as historian J. A. Froude and Alfred Lord Tennyson , who read her early manuscripts. Froude saw touches of genuine genius in her early...

She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .

AC borrowed a title from Tennyson for The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (in which a film is being shot at St Mary Mead, where Miss Marple lives), the first of her three Marple...

This, called only The Mirror Crack'd in the US edition the following year (so that the quotation from Tennyson becomes easy to miss), was followed by A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 (in which Miss Marple's...

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

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

Her parents often hosted musical and cultural events that drew visitors from London's artistic circles. As a girl, MEC would have seen Alfred Tennyson , John Ruskin , William Holman Hunt , Fanny Kemble ...

SC published a lengthy review (anonymous, according to custom) of Tennyson 's The Princess in the Quarterly Review.

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...

Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor,Sir Edward Marsh . She edited the book's contents, collecting, and in some cases revising, all the poems I wish to...

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

During the same year, 1911, BWC contributed Thackeray and his Father's Family to the Cornhill (new series 31), and the following year, 1912, she contributed An Impression of Thackeray in his Last Years to the...

LSC was apparently inspired by the same Italian poem (Cento Novelle Antiche) that inspired Tennyson 's The Lady of Shalott three years later. Scholar Roger Simpson suggests that, at the very least,...

George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...