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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 The Queen and the Poet Laureate
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An account of a conversation between Queen Victoria and Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the morality behind Tennyson's poem Enoch Arden' (1864), particularly the subject of bigamy. The conversation is purported to have taken place on the Isle of Wight.

Notes

  • This column is preceded by the following comment from the Empire: 'The Gartenlaube, a paper published in Berlin, gives the following somewhat doubtful account of an interview between the Queen and Mr. Tennyson...'

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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. [5264] 5 October 1868 7327398 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 3
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