Miguel de Cervantes

Knowing she had not long to live, AG published Three Last Plays, a volume which included The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Molière ), Sancho's Master (from Don Quixote by Cervantes ), and her last play, Dave.

After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh . The story opens with SG 's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism ...

Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes

Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...

ABE 's earliest publications included A Summary of English History, From the Roman Conquest to the Present Time, 1856, and The History of France, from the Conquest of Gaul to the Peace of 1856...

GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...

MD makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas

SC argues the merits of appreciating people, women in particular, for their moral worth and not for their physical beauty. She writes that by fostering our attention too exclusively on what is external, we overlook...

Carrington provided five illustrations for a school edition of Don Quixote by Cervantes , published by the Oxford University Press .

Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution

The opening scene introduces two unmarried lovers who have obviously only just got out of bed. Characters refer with off-hand frankness to sex between men and boys. The subplot comes from Cervantes .