Oh! What a family!

No one could have emerged from a stranger family than Lord Tennyson- the poet Lurette of Victorian Britain.

His father was a violent drunkard who terrorized the neighborhood. Out of his twelve siblings, two were insane, one was a drug-addict, one was an alcoholic, and another subject to equally violent outbursts as his father! All were subject to out bursts, fits, depression, and different degrees of mania.

In spite of having such a strange family, Lord Tennyson produced some of the most popular poems of the 19th Century.