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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Further Reading
Literary works and memoirs Frances Duberly, Mrs Duberly’s War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea (1855), ed. Christine Kelly (Oxford UP, 2007)
Florence Nightingale, Letters from the Crimea 1854-1856, ed. Sue Goldie (1997)
Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857; Penguin, 2005)
Alfred Tennyson, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854); in Tennyson, Selected Poems, ed. Aidan Day (Penguin, 1991)
Tennyson, Maud (1855), in Tennyson, Selected Poems.
Leo Tolstoy, Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6; Penguin, 1986)
Harry Turner, ed., Wrapped in Whirlwinds: Poems of the Crimean War (Spellmount, 2005)
History and Biography
Mark Adkin, The Charge: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade was Lost (Leo Cooper, 1996)
Olive Anderson, A Liberal State at War: English Politics and Economics during the Crimean War (Macmillan, 1967)
Winfried Baumgart, The Crimean War, 1853-1856 (Arnold, 1999)
J. B. Conacher, Britain and the Crimea, 1855–56: Problems of War and Peace (Macmillan, 1987)
David Goldfrank, The Origins of the Crimean War (Longman, 1994)
Andrew Lambert and Stephen Badsey, The War Correspondents: The Crimean War (Sutton, 1994)
Robert Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (1980)
Alan Palmer, The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987)
Christopher Ricks, Tennyson, revised edn (Macmillan, 1989)
Trudi Tate, ‘On Not Knowing Why: Memorializing the Light Brigade’, in Helen Small and Trudi Tate, eds., Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer (Oxford UP, 2003)
