John Dryden

The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner...

MP contributed to The Nine Muses, edited by Delarivier Manley in 1700, a volume of elegies by women on the lately-dead John Dryden .

Her title is a near-quotation from the lyric by Dryden which closes The Secular Masque; NL both quotes Dryden and thanks him. Her preface says Madeline Smith—may the earth lie lightly upon her—gave...

AB 's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane which may have been...

On the death of John Dryden , DM edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him.

MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...

The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden 's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda...

The American title echoes Dryden 's All for Love (Act 4, scene 1): Men are but children of a larger growth. The book is dedicated To Another Father and Mother in gratitude for a wide...

CD 's second novel, Wandering Fires (titled from John Dryden ), appeared the same year as Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow.

Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...

LED marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings , His Funerals Blessing.

This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .

CAD 's volume of public poems composed as national Laureate, Ritual Lighting, with illustrations by Stephen Raw, was published to coincide with an exhibition of laureates' manuscripts at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh:...

They printed about 460 copies. The label on the wrapper survives in three different states, as did the label of the previous Hogarth edition of work by Eliot. The Woolfs were to print one more...

The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...