Dr Jayne Thomas

Our next Tennyson Talk will be 5 February 2026 at 7:30pm, featuring Dr Sarah Weaver of Cambridge University, who will be speaking on 'Tennyson's Many Fine Old Words'.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow. (In Memoriam, CVI, ll. 1-6)

The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. (In Memoriam, XXVIII, ll. 1-4)

🎉 Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen! Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775. 📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature and getting excited for our virtual birthday party!

Series 4 of our Tennyson Talks will begin in October 2025.

The next Tennyson Talk will be on Thursday 6th March at 7.30pm GMT, when Professor Cornelia Pearsall will be speaking on 'Nuclear Tennyson'. Please contact Professor Valerie Purton (v.purton@hotmail.co.uk) for joining details if you don't already have them.

Just a reminder that the next Tennyson Talk will be on Thursday 6 February at 19.30 GMT, when Professor Dinah Birch will be discussing 'Tennyson and Ruskin'. Please contact Professor Valerie Purton at v.purton@hotmail.co.uk for joining details if you don't already have them.

@TennysonSociety Just a reminder that the next Tennyson Talk will be on Thursday 9th January at 7.30pm, when Professor Naomi Levine of Yale University will be speaking on 'Tennyson's Stanza'. Contact Professor Valerie Purton at v.purton@hotmail.co.uk for joining details.

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I’m giving a talk about Victorian depictions of orchid collecting including imperial adventure fiction and satires of Joseph Chamberlain. This Wednesday 27th November at Birmingham uni. Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/orchid-jo-em…

The next Tennyson Society 'Tennyson Talk' will be on Thursday, 7th November at 7.30pm, when Professor Roger Ebbatson will be speaking on 'Tennysonian Sea Fantasies'. If you would like to attend the online Talk, please email Professor Valerie Purton, vpurton@hotmail.co.uk.

The next Zoom Tennyson Talk will be on 7 November at 7.30pm, when Professor Roger Ebbatson of Lancaster University will be speaking on 'Tennysonian Sea Fantasies'. If you would like to be added to the emailing list to attend any of the Talks, please email vpurton@hotmail.co.uk.

The third series of The Tennyson Society 'Tennyson Talks' begins on Thursday 3rd October at 19:30 UK time, when Dr Tai-Chun Ho from the University of Taiwan will be speaking on ‘Tennyson and Nineteenth-century War Poetry’. Full details below: bavs.ac.uk/news/tennyson-…

#OTD in 1809, Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby Lincolnshire to Elizabeth Fytche Tennyson and Rev Dr George Clayton Tennyson. Tennyson is perhaps best known for the poems The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses and In Memoriam A.H.H.

Postdoctoral Research Assistant Inspiring Voices: Poetry, Heritage and Community at University of Oxford jobs.ac.uk/job/DJC099/pos…

And here @jaynekthomas blogs for us on Tennyson and Wordsworth: 'echo and allusion' wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2019/07/0… 2/2

@lindajane18 @LuttPress @TheTLS Hi Linda, Yes, your husband can contact me at jthomas3@cardiffmet.ac.uk

@LuttPress @jaynekthomas @TheTLS Hi Jayne, my husband, professor peter Nicholls, enjoyed your tls review and has a question about a Wordsworth quote you used. Do you have an email address he could reach you on?

@jaynekthomas just made a Review on @TheTLS about The Intelligible Ode by Graham Davidson. Check more here: the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-i…

Not sure who's still on here these days any more. But here is a little follow-up piece to my book. Includes my broader (and new) reflection on harmony in Romantic poetry, featuring the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

In 1892 on this day, the Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson passed away. Shakespeare's Cymbeline had been open on what became his deathbed. For Tennyson's late views of Shakespeare, see my piece on The Golden Treasury: doi.org/10.1093/litima… @engfac @TennysonSociety @BAVS_UK @navsa