Tennyson and His Friends

Tennyson and His Friends

[Pg ix] [Pg xii] [Pg xiii] [Pg 1] TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS [Pg 2] (Dedication of The Death of none to Emily, Lady Tennyson) Emery Walker, Ph.sc. Emily Lady Tennyson from a drawing by G. F. Watts, R.A. [Pg 3] By Emily, Lady Tennyson Written for her son in 1896 You ask me to tell you something of my life before marriage at Horncastle in Lincolnshire. It would be hard indeed not to do anything you ask of me if within my power. To say the truth, this particular thing you want is somewhat painful. The first thing I remember of my father[1] is his looking at me with sad eyes after my mothers[2] death. Her I recollect, passing the window in a velvet pelisse, and then in a white shawl on the sofa, and then crowned with rosesbeautiful in death. I recollect, too, being carried to her funeral; but I asked what they were doing, and in all this had no idea of death. My life before marriage was in many ways sad: in one, however, unspeakably happy. No one could have had a better father, or been happier with her two sisters, Anne and Louisa. Although, if we were too merry and noisy in the mornings, we were summoned by my Aunt Betsy (who lived with us) all three into her room, to hold out our small hands for stripes from a certain little riding-whip; or if, later in the day, our needlework was not well done we had our fingers pricked with a needle, or if the lessons were not finished, we had fools caps put on our heads, and were banished to a corner of the room. My aunts nature was by no means cruel; she was, on the whole, kind and dutiful to us, yet no[Pg 4] doubt with effort on her part, for she had no instinctive love of children. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 38420
Author: Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson
Release Date: Dec 27, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928