Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women is the result of rigorous and painstaking scholarship. The editors prudently retain the period's variable spellings and grammar, and provide informative commentaries to connect the letters.

Dinah Roe, The Times Literary Supplement

A major contribution to Tennyson studies ... expanding what we know of the biographical influences upon Tennyson's work, whilst simultaneously allowing the poet's talented and resourceful female relations to speak for themselves.

British Association of Victorian Studies

This eagerly awaited book draws on the extensive archive of Tennyson family letters housed in the County Archives in Lincoln ... well-written and very readable, this book has a wider interest than simply for Tennysonian studies. The letters ... for the most part unpublished, cast a unique light of the Tennsyon family's interrelationships and the times and society in which they lived.

Jean Howard, The Tennyson Research Bulletin

The fact that this book is so well grounded in unexplored primary material makes it highly original and will guarantee its value to those interested in the history of Lincolnshire or the life of Alfred Tennyson and his family.

Lincolnshire Past and Present