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Turner, Charles (Tennyson) (1808 - 1879)

Index to poems

  1. Dreams
  2. The Gold-Crested Wren
  3. The Holy Emerald
  4. The Landing of King George I of Greece at the Piraeus
  5. Letty's Globe
  6. The Marble Landing
  7. Millie MacGill
  8. The Mute Lovers On the Railway Journey
  9. Nehemiah's Night Ride
  10. A Night-Charge Against A Swan By A Lover
  11. The Oak and the Hill
  12. St. Augustine and Monica
  13. To A Friend
  14. To A German Lady
  15. To A Greek Girl On The Seashore
  16. The Wedding Posy
Biography: 
  • Turner, Charles. Collected Sonnets Old and New (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880). PR 5699 T7 Robarts Library.
  • --. Sonnets (1864).
  • Evans, Roger. "Turner, Charles (1808–1879)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2009.
Given Name: 
Charles
Family Name: 
Tennyson Turner
Birth Date: 
July 4, 1808
Death Date: 
April 25, 1879
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
sister : Alfred Tennyson
father : George Clayton Tennyson
wife : Louisa Sellwood (from 1836)

Education

Honours

Literary Period: 
Victorian
Literary Movement: 
Unknown
Cause of Death: 
Bladder disease
Buried At: 
Bouncers Lane cemetery, Cheltenham