Alfred Tennyson

The poems take up various late-Victorian feminist issues, and their topicality and title seem to make them an implicit rebuttal of Tennyson 's nostalgic Idylls of the King. In A Woman's Ethics (perhaps an...

Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...

This second lecture takes as its epigraph the invocation in Tennyson 's The Princess of men and women working side by side in council, hearth, and the tangled business of the world. It enlarges...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed...

Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM named Hemans and Byron in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson and Wordsworth .

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India...

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...

Edmund, narrator of this novel, is another old man: cautious, hierarchically minded, yet remembering his past as a young radical. He fell in love with Clarice de Vere —whose name recalls Tennyson 's Lady Clara...

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

Though the Feminist Companion says that Miss Silver is a character [i]n the mould of Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple, she actually predates Miss Marple by two years. She is a former governess who now...

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.