The Open University | Study at the OU | About the OU | Research at the OU | Search the OU Listen to this page | Accessibility
From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's house, four miles outside Plymouth: 'He spoke of the Italians as a great people (it was in 1848, the year of revolutions) [...] He had read a poem of mine on Italy: said he felt "great interest in the Italian movement as in all great movements for freedom"'.