Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson

VALERIE PURTON is Reader in Victorian Literature at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and is a member of both the Publications Board and the Executive Committee of the Tennyson Society. She has recently edited the Idylls of the King and has co-authored, with Christopher Sturman, a book on the poetry of Tennyson's father and uncle.NORMAN PAGE is Professor Emeritus of the University of Nottingham, UK. He is an Honorary Vice-President of the Tennyson Society and was formally Chair of the Society's Publications Board. He is the author of Tennyson: Interviews and Recollections (1983) and Tennyson: An Illustrated Life (1992), and has written many books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

'This dictionary, as wide as an encyclopedia, is sure to be often consulted as a reliable and enjoyable source of information.' - Reference Reviews Journal 'This very useful book gives a near complete account of all Tennyson's works and all the people he knew...Much industry, knowledge and research has gone into the making of the excellent dictionary.' - Lincolnshire History and Archaeology '...it is certainly the case that, with this dictionary, the editors' encyclopaedic knowledge has placed all Tennysonians in their debt and provided a work of reference to which we shall all have profitable recourse for the forseeable future.' - The Tennyson Society

• Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Entries A-Z Bibliography