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Article: Elizabeth Barrett's and Alfred Tennyson's authorial and formal links.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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If they had only met earlier, Elizabeth Barrett might well have married Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Barrett first met Tennyson in the summer of 1851 when the new Poet Laureate and his wife Emily stayed with the Brownings in Paris. Even though Tennyson had only seen Robert Browning a few times before, he offered the Brownings the use of his Twickenham house along with the services of his two servants. After this visit, Barrett wrote to her sister Henrietta, "we were all friends at once; and really [Tennyson] was more than a friend." (1) Four years later, Tennyson took the Brownings "by surprise" and visited them in London. Barrett wrote to Henrietta that she nearly died of joy, ...
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