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The years after 1857 were some of the happiest in Tennyson’s life. The traumas of the Crimean War and of Maud were behind him. He could enjoy the comforts of Farringford, under the protection of Emily, who took charge of everything, acting as secretary as well as housekeeper. Aubrey de Vere thought the poet ‘very greatly blessed in his marriage … He is much happier and proportionately less morbid than he used to be; and in all respects improved’.1 Tennyson was never really at peace for long, however, and Emily had to struggle to maintain a balance between boredom and restlessness. Tennyson established the practice of working in the morning and evening, and walking or talking with friends in the middle of the day.
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Ormond, L. (1993). Tennyson and the Arts. In: Alfred Tennyson. Macmillan Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22998-7_7
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