Tennysons Gift

Unexpectedly moving and luminously wise, Tennyson's Gift is the funniest novel ever written about a Victorian Poet Laureate. In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and; the mismatched couple, actress Ellen Terry and painter G. F. Watts are thrown into the company of the remarkable Lorenzo Fowler, the American phrenologist, and his daughter Jessie. Enter mathematician Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), known to Jessie as the 'fiendish pedagogue', and Lynne Truss's wonderfully imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and riotous farce begins to take flight.

Title - Tennysons Gift

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Author - Lynne Truss

ISBN 13 - 9781861977137

Imprint - Profile Books Ltd

Publisher - Profile Books Ltd

Date Published - 10/06/2004

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 130 x 198 x 17mm

Weight - 195 g

Languages - English