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I ventured to send my first volume of verse (1850) to Tennyson from Ballyshannon. I don’t think he wrote to me, but I heard indirectly that he thought well of it; and during a visit to London in the summer of 1851 Coventry Patmore,1 to my boundless joy, let me know that I might call on the great poet, then not long married,2 and living at Twickenham.
William Allingham: A Diary, ed. H. Allingham and D. Radford (London: Macmillan, 1907) pp. 60–5.
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William Allingham (1824–89), Irish poet. In 1874 he married Helen Paterson, artist and illustrator.
Coventry Patmore (1823–96), poet and prose writer, friend of Tennyson.
Tom Taylor (1817–80), dramatist and later editor of Punch.
Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), Irish novelist.
William Edmondstone Aytoun (1813–65), Scottish poet, was Professor of Belles-Lettres at Edinburgh University from 1845.
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Allingham, W. (1983). Tennyson at Twickenham (1851–3). In: Page, N. (eds) Tennyson. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07803-5_11
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