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Mrs Hughes
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Locksley Hall
'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Listen now, children" began to declaim "Locksley Hall". When she reached "I to herd with narroe foreheads" she burst out, flinging down the book, "What awful rubbish this is!"
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Hughes Print: Book
James Hogg : Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The
'Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of that frightful kind that ever was written'.
