"Marmion" was a success with the public and remained popular for over a century. The stanzas telling the story of "young Lochinvar" from Canto 5 particularly caught the public imagination and were widely published in anthologies and learned as a recitation piece. The Brontë sisters were also admirers of "Marmion". It is mentioned in "Jane Eyre" when St. John Rivers gives the poem to Jane. Similarly, in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Gilbert Markham - the supposed author - gives a copy of "Marmion" to the central character, Mrs Graham.