John Dryden

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...

The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry and Gauthier de La Calprenède ]. Several...

The play's central theme was suttee or sati, the practice of burning a widow at her husband's death. The playbill advertised a Procession representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the...

The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.

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...

As a child ET was later said to have been for ever a Scribling.

The title alludes to the pronouncement in the Bible that the labourer is worthy of his hire. Thomas chooses a title-page quotation from Cibber , reinforces the theatrical and period note with lines from Otway

ET sent two of her poems to John Dryden , the Poet Laureate, asking for his criticism.

ET published, as a Young Lady, an elegy on Dryden in the collection Luctus Britannici.

ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).

ET (dubbed Corinna by Dryden and writing mostly in the early eighteenth century) was a poet of real stature and an interesting letter-writer. Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings...

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...

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...

CT contributed Calliope: The Heroick Muse to The Nine Muses, Manley 's collection of elegies by women on Dryden 's death, published by 26 September 1700. A different poem by her, On the...

CT 's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare , Dryden , Otway , and Nathaniel Lee . The play, set in late fifteenth-century France, concerns royal marriage. Charles VIII