Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, novelist, and playwright. Father was Admiral Sir Courtney Boyle, grandfather was seventh Earl of Cork and Orrery. Well connected to major literary figures like the Brownings, Dickens, and Tennyson (Tennyson’s son Hallam married to Boyle’s niece, and Tennyson wrote his poem “To Mary Boyle” for her). Biographical information: ODNB; Tennyson: A Selected Edition, ed. by Christopher Ricks, revised edition, Pearson Longman, 2007, p. 564; Colman pp. 42-3. (AC)