She bored the world.
In 1832 Tennyson published another small volume of poems which contained that beautifully classical piece of blank verse Œnone; The Sisters, The Palace of Art, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, The May Queen, The Lotus-Eaters, The Dream of Fair Women, and Margaret, all of which have been so frequently parodied that selection is indeed difficult.
The following parody of Tennyson's, The Sisters, was apropos to a division in the House of Commons, relative to the vexed question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and appeared in The Tomahawk.
MATRIMONIAL EXPEDIENCY.
They were two daughters of one race:
One dead, the other took her place;
Brotherly love? oh! fiddle-de-dee!
The Noes were but one forty-four;
I'm backed by retrospective law;