‘They Slept in Beauty Side by Side’ | Pencil Tolkien drew this in early 1904, when he was twelve, when his mother was hospitalized for diabetes and he had to stay with her younger sister, Jane, in Sussex. The drawing depicts Jane and her husband Edwin, and the title was likely inspired by a line from the popular 19th-century poem ‘The Graves of a Household’ by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, which goes: ‘They grew in beauty, side by side / They fill’d one home with glee.’
