Lady Marian Alford

Standard Name: Alford, Lady Marian

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Boyle
MB met Alfred Tennyson ; he became a good friend, and following the death of her close friend Lady Marian Alford in 1888 he sent her the poem To Mary Boyle.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Friends, Associates Mary Boyle
MB noted in her reminiscences that she had been on terms of close and tender friendship with many great men.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Boyle, Sir Courtenay EdmundEditor , E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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Her correspondence with some of them has since been published. She called G. P. R. James

Timeline

Early 1862
Sculptor Harriet Hosmer was working in Rome on a commission for patron of the arts Marian Alford , entitled Fountain of the Siren.