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Introduction: “Modern” Love and the Proto-Post-Victorian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Carolyn Dever
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One early thursday evening in 1892, Katharine Bradley returned to her suburban home and recorded the following entry in the diary she shared with Edith Cooper, her niece, lover, and literary collaborator:

Thursday evening Oct 6th 1892.

∗Tennyson is dead. We saw it in the Underground this morning—

Death of Lord Tennyson Illustrated biography a penny.

The news of Tennyson's death affected Bradley profoundly, propelling her back to a pastoral, “Victorian” past that seems remote from her urban fin de siècle world of the Underground and rapid-cycle tabloid news. Bradley is returned, she writes, to “days when ‘The Miller's Daughter’ bounded my horizons.—My way of looking at the universe was unquestionably determined by Tennyson” (Field, Works 5: 5).

Type
Victorian Cluster
Information
PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 2 , March 2009 , pp. 370 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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Works Cited

Michael, Field. “It Was Deep April.” Underneath the Bough. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1893. 50. Print.Google Scholar
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Alfred, Tennyson. “The Miller's Daughter.” The Poems of Tennyson. Ed. Ricks, Christopher. London: Longman, 1969. 371–82. Print.Google Scholar