Lady Clara Vere de Vere

…such as “The May Queen,” “Lady Clara Vere de Vere,” and “The Lord of Burleigh.” The new volume was not on the whole well received. But the grant to him at this time, by the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, of a pension of £200 helped to alleviate his financial…

…from Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”: “Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.”