AT
was initially educated by his father, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge
, which he entered in November 1827 (by which time he had already co-published his first volume of poetry, Poems, by Two...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alfred Tennyson
It proved a happy marriage for both, though some critics have discerned a homoerotic element in AT
's writings about Hallam
.
Family and Intimate relationships
F. Tennyson Jesse
Her grandmother Emily Tennyson
, the poet's sister, had been engaged to his great friend Arthur Hallam
before she married FTJ
's grandfather years after Hallam's death.
HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...
Textual Features
A. S. Byatt
Together, says Byatt, the stories make up one exploration of Victorian anxieties about what it was to be human.
qtd. in
Byatt, A. S. A. S. Byatt. http://www.asbyatt.com/.
The Conjugial Angel (whose odd spelling of conjugal derives from Emanuel Swedenborg
) relates the story...
Timeline
August 1831: Arthur Henry Hallam anonymously published...
Writing climate item
August 1831
Arthur Henry Hallam
anonymously published On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson in the Englishman's Magazine.
Motter, T. H. Vail. The Writings of Arthur Hallam. MLA, 1943.
182
1 June 1850: Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his...
Writing climate item
1 June 1850
Alfred Tennyson
anonymously published his poetic sequence In Memoriam.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
108-11
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 June 2010
21 January 1859: Henry Hallam, historian and father of Arthur...
Writing climate item
21 January 1859
Henry Hallam
, historian and father of Arthur Henry Hallam
, died.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.