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Marriage and Farringford

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Alfred Tennyson

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Tennyson’s growing prosperity revived his thoughts of marriage. He put the case dramatically to Lady Harriet Baring in 1845, saying that he ‘must have a woman to live beside; would prefer a lady, but cannot afford one; and so must marry a maidservant’.1 In the same year, Aubrey de Vere found him, ‘much out of spirits, and said that he could no longer bear to be knocked about the world, and that he must marry and find love and peace or die’.2

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    Leonée Ormond (Reader in English)

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Ormond, L. (1993). Marriage and Farringford. In: Alfred Tennyson. Macmillan Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22998-7_6

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