Alfred Tennyson

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...

AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...

She took her title from a line in Tennyson 's Break, break, break, a poem which powerfully conveys a sense of desolation and despair. She dedicated her novel to Mrs Lupton , her former...

These two songs are the only works by CB published under her real name: some time after this, she adopted the pseudonym Claribel. She may have taken this pseudonym from Alfred Tennyson 's poem...

There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...

This was ironical, since her aim had been to produce something new and different. She titled the book with the name of Tennyson 's heroine who waits interminably in her moated grange for a...

SB 's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death. Its allusive title (making fun of Tennyson 's poem A Dream of Fair Women, which itself is...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett , who...

She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...

EJ gave a lecture at Lincoln at the annual dinner of the Tennyson Society , which was published, leaflet style, as Tennyson and Dr. Gully.

She dedicated it to James Martineau in honour of their friendship of sixty years. Her preface says: To the learned I have nothing to offer, but hopes to appeal to students and readers. She...

Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...

LTM published A Sweet Girl-Graduate, whose title (originally from Tennyson 's The Princess) has been much used by other writers).

In the new foreword, Ogle explains that she wrote the book in the despair of youth. She suggests by allusion to Tennyson that youthful sorrows can also lead to personal awakening. In the story...