When Cameron’s husband, Charles, retired and the couple moved from India to England with their six children, they settled first near Charles’s old friend the poet Henry Taylor and later near Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate. For Cameron, these men were not merely friends and neighbors but also part of her intellectual, spiritual, and artistic circle. Tennyson, who jokingly referred to Cameron’s models as “victims,” resisted her appeals to sit for his portrait but ultimately succumbed.