Percy Bysshe Shelley

His specialities were scandal, pornography, and blackmail. He was an attacker of the alleged profiteer Mary Anne Clarke , and claimed to have given her protector the Duke of York the idea of getting hold...

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

ACS came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy ). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne , owned an...

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,

STW wrote an opera libretto about the last days of Percy Shelley , The Sea Change, for musician Paul Nordoff , who had been commissioned by Columbia University to write an opera.

In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...

DW set up her own Penns in the Rocks Press and in conjunction with publishers William Collins produced volumes of Byron and Shelley each illustrated in black-and-white and colour.

Dorothy Ashton (later DW ) also spent two months in Florence (which she associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning , while she gave no sign of having heard of the wife of either)...

DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...

Her completion of the novel was delayed and nearly prevented when she suffered a serious concussion; however, her friend Storm Jameson helped bring the text to publication by acting as proofreader and advisor.AWE

A number of HEW 's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley , Byron , Eliza Cook

The full title was Confessions of Julia Johnstone, written by herself. In contradiction to the fables of Harriette Wilson. It announces that Johnstone is writing to vindicate her character and those of friends, and...