Emilia Tennyson (1811–1887), known simply asEmily within her family, was a younger sister ofAlfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée ofArthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's poem,In Memoriam A.H.H., was written. Emilia met Hallam through her brother, and they became engaged in 1832.[1]
However, the couple were never to marry, as Hallam died suddenly while travelling abroad in 1833. There was much concern for Emily's well-being on the death of Arthur.[1]
She later married Richard Jesse, then amidshipman in the BritishRoyal Navy, who later rose at least to the rank of captain. Their marriage came as a considerable shock to Jane Elton, Arthur's cousin. Jesse probably died two years after his wife, in 1889.[2] Their eldest son was given the forenames Arthur Henry Hallam.[1] Another son, the Reverend Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt Jesse, was the father of the writerF. Tennyson Jesse.[3]
Emilia Tennyson appears as a character in the story "Conjugial[sic] Angel" byA. S. Byatt in the bookAngels and Insects.[4]
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