Between 29 and 31 March 2019, the Tennyson Society’s annual conference hosted 48 international and UK delegates at Christ Church, Oxford. Encompassing fourteen papers from established and early career scholars, the conference featured three keynote speakers and a tour of the Special Collections in the Christ Church Upper Library.
The weekend opened with Dr Jane Wright’s keynote lecture on ‘The Charm of Tennyson’, which preceded panels on ‘Vision and Elegy’, ‘Tennyson’s Revisionary Relations’, ‘Legacies and Dialogues’, and ‘Arthurian Histories’. The second and closing keynotes were delivered by Professor Seamus Perry on ‘Becoming a Name’ and Professor Leonée Ormond on ‘Tennyson and Robert Browning’. Among the archival collections which the College displayed were the manuscripts of Lewis Carroll and the correspondence of the Hallam family.
Several conference papers were published in a Special Issue of the Tennyson Research Bulletin for Winter 2020.
