Emilia Tennyson (1811–1887), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of

Arthur Henry Hallam Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, '' In Memoriam'', by his close friend and fellow poet Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the ''jeune homme fat ...

, for whom Tennyson's poem, ''

In Memoriam A.H.H. The poem "In Memoriam A.H.H." (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833. As a sustained exercise in tetrametri ...

'', was written. Emilia met Hallam through her brother, and they became engaged in 1832.Christopher Ricks, "Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200

Retrieved 19 December 2005.

Loss and marriage

However, the couple were never to marry, as Hallam died suddenly while travelling abroad in 1833. There was much concern for Emily's well-being on the death of Arthur. She later married Richard Jesse, then a midshipman in the British

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, who later rose at least to the rank of captain. Their marriage came as a considerable shock to Jane Elton, Arthur's cousin. Jesse probably died two years after his wife, in 1889. Their eldest son was given the forenames Arthur Henry Hallam. Another son, the Reverend Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt Jesse, was the father of the writer F. Tennyson Jesse.

Cultural reference

Emilia Tennyson appears as a character in the story "Conjugial '' ic' Angel" by A. S. Byatt in the book ''Angels and Insects''.A. S. Byatt, ''Angels and Insects'' (London: Chatto, 1992). Retrieved British Library 15 May 2019.

References

1811 births 1887 deaths People from Lincolnshire

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