The title of the novel is a reference to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s elegiac poem, In Memoriam A.H.H that he wrote after the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. Ellwood starts the novel idealistic ...

Following the death of his great friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, the poet Alfred Tennyson began writing In Memoriam AHH, ...

In 1850 Tennyson published In Memoriam AHH. The poem was dedicated to his late friend Arthur Hallam. It was a favourite of Queen Victoria, who said the book helped to comfort her after her husband ...