John Dryden

Perhaps JC 's most pressing concern here is with women's issues: Women live most part of their lives in the office of Nursing, either Parents Husbands or Children. She writes a story of A...

The long epistle mentioned on the title-page, a philosophical poem On the Origin of the World, and the two Latin psalms are the works that show most revision since the earlier volume. A...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

In this ground-breaking study CR provides the first full critical and historical account of the modern novel form (the one most used by women writers), and defends the genre of romance against its many attackers...

In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with...

Dryden 's Virgil translation supplies an epigraph for the title-page. An authorial Advertisement, apologetic in tone, says the book will be realistic, moral, and well-intentioned. Louisa Jenkins writes the first letter while staying with her...

Southampton turns out to be too bashful to speak in parliament, and also too weak to withstand the mockery of rakish friends for his fidelity to his wife. He suffers agony of conscience over his...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press . The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the...

MLC 's circle of friends was largely maintained by correspondence. She discussed literary and philosophical ideas with John Dryden , Mary Astell (Almystrea in Chudleigh's poetry), Elizabeth Thomas , and other women who are...

ET seems to have engaged in a real family friendship with Dryden (who advised her about her ambition to write poetry), since she stayed in touch, after his death, with his son Charles and his...

As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden . He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club , and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining...

She had already had enquiries from prospective husbands when she was in London, but the time of wooing came after her return home: a time marked also by her sister's illness and her own religious...

Whether or not TT 's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare and Milton through...

The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they...