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Emily Sarah Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson (née Sellwood; 9 July 1813 – 10 August 1896), known as Emily, Lady Tennyson, was the wife of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and an author and composer in her own right.
Tennyson had felt an intense devotion for this handsome, gifted young man of twenty-two - indeed, his devotion had been so strong that perhaps he had been incapable of falling in love with a woman. But now the first shock of the tragedy was over, and Tennyson had begun to turn to women for consolation.
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, for whom Tennyson's poem, In Memoriam A.H.H., was written.
Born Emily Sarah Sellwood in 1813 in England; died on August 10, 1896; the eldest daughter of Henry Sellwood (a solicitor); married Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892, the writer), on June 13, 1850; children: two sons, Hallam and Lionel.
Emily Tennyson was forty-nine when George Frederic Watts painted this portrait in 1862. She had married Tennyson in 1850, having known the Tennyson family for many years. Alfred's courtship of her took place over a long period and was often from a distance.
The letters of Emily Lady Tennyson by Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Baroness, 1813-1896
Emily Sarah Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson (Sellwood; 9 July 1813 - 10 August 1896), known as Emily, Lady Tennyson, was the wife of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and an author and composer in her own right.
