Author: Veronica Franklin Gould and Leonee Ormond
An Exhibition Celebrating the Life of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) on the Bicentenary of his Birth, 6 August to 9 September 2009.
The Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of the most often quoted British poets, lived at Farringford, near Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, from 1853. The poetry that he wrote there over four decades influenced the culture of the Victorian age.
On the bicentenary of his birth, Tennyson at Farringford explores the poet's home life, his illustrious visitors, poetry and his fascination for nature, through manuscripts, letters, journals and rarely seen landscapes and portraits, notably, by the artist George Frederic Watts and the art photographers Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron.
