The title of the novel is a reference to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s elegiac poem, In Memoriam A.H.H that he wrote after the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. Ellwood starts the novel idealistic ...

On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam. In my book, it’s not only a great New Year’s poem — it’s a ...

In what follows, I discuss this tension in relation to Victorian evolutionary discourse and in a number of key literary works of the period, including Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850) and Idylls ...

In 1850 Tennyson published In Memoriam AHH. The poem was dedicated to his late friend Arthur Hallam. It was a favourite of Queen Victoria, who said the book helped to comfort her after her husband ...

Alfred was born at Somersby in Lincolnshire, the fourth of many children of the Reverend Dr George Tennyson and Elizabeth (Fytche). He was educated at Louth and Trinity College, Cambridge. In Memoriam ...