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Harriet Beecher Stowe : Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp
'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and considered it as good ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria Print: Book
Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman
'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Princess 'Beatrice has ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria Print: Book
Alfred Tennyson : Dedication, Idylls of the King
'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince Consort: '[...] Mr Tennyson could not have chosen a more beautiful or true testimonial to the memory of him who was so really good and noble, than the dedication of the "Idylls of the King" which he so valued and admired. Princess Alice transmitted these lines to the Queen, who desired her to tell Mr Tennyson, with her sincerest thanks, how much moved she was on reading them, and that they had soothed her aching, bleeding heart. She knows also how [italics]he[end italics] would have admired them.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria Print: Book
Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862: 'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one had bound me by no promise of secrecy, I, in talking of Her Majesty and her sorrow [at death of her husband], did say to two friends, whom I bound by such a promise, that she had found comfort in reading "In Memoriam," and had made the private markings therein. 'I don't suppose much harm would result even if these broke their promise, for that is all that could be reported; still I am vexed, because if the Queen heard of the report she might fancy that her private sentiments were public prey.'
