“Again, he was suddenly seized with giddiness on the verge of a…” — Charles Tennyson Turner

“Again, he was suddenly seized with giddiness on the verge of a precipice, and only preserved by the presence of mind of a person near him.”

Describing how narrowly a moment of weakness became a fatal fall · Letter to John Frere, 27 July 1830

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Charles Tennyson Turner

About Charles Tennyson Turner

4 July 1808–25 April 1879

Charles Tennyson Turner was born Charles Turner on 4 July 1808 at Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire, and died on 25 April 1879 at Grasby, also in Lincolnshire. He lived during the long Victorian transformation of English literary culture, yet his own life retained a strongly local character: he was a country clergyman…

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