Professor Jowett

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (1852 - 1911)

RA Collection: Art

Jowett, an old friend of the Tennysons, would regularly visit the family at Farringford and was to write an account of the poet, decribing him as 'so greatly mistaken by those who don't know him or only know him a little. No one is more honest, truthful, manly or a warmer friend; but he is as open as the day, and like a child, tells any chance comer what is passing in his mind'. According to Jowett, one of Tennyson's chief pre-occupations was the nature of a future life after death.

Jowett also described Mrs Cameron was as 'a very honest, really kind, enthusiastic person : perhaps she has the tendency to make the house shake the moment she enters, but in this dull world that is a very excusable fault.'