Tennyson’s Gift

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Lynne Truss. Tennyson’s Gift

Contents

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Appendix

About the Author

Praise

By the same author

Copyright

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LYNNE TRUSS

Tennyson’s Gift

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She must keep him away from Alfred, she resolved. Alfred’s new volume Enoch Arden had just been published, and it would make or break his reputation. And sadly, it was not one of Alfred’s best. Parodies were bound to ensue. Mr Dodgson was a gifted parodist, albeit an anonymous one, like the rest of the vile cowardly breed. Just two weeks ago, Punch had shockingly included a parody of Alfred’s In Memoriam, and Emily was so surprised by its appearance that she tore out the page at the breakfast table, panicked what to do next, then stuffed it into her mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.

Alfred had seemed perplexed, as well he might.

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