Geoffrey Chaucer

The second part of the story gives excerpts of the diary, which makes heard the voice of an earlier Judith Shakespeare, a woman's writing (like that of Margaret Paston ) which also seeks to capture...

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

Believing strongly that no writer in English can be ignorant of English literature, JW told an interviewer that she reads or re-reads for about five hours a day, choosing sometiimes obscure authors from Chaucer to...

The framework of a group of cultured people standing for different points of view and exchanging ideas owes something to Thomas Love Peacock 's Headlong Hall, 1816 (also set in Wales), but Williams is...

DW followed this with two social-issue novels: So Long to Learn, 1936 (titled with a quotation from Chaucer ), a topical story about the tithe wars, and Old Father Antic, 1937, a story...

Many of these tales are unequivocally charming for a modern reader, but not so Gaude Maria, a version of the story which Chaucer used for his Prioress's Tale, about a poor widow's pious...

She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer to Beattie , as well as Burns ,...

The story recalls that of Chaucer 's Wyf of Bath's Tale. A Scottish chieftain has three ugly daughters: his formidable wife makes him marry the ugliest of all to his defeated, handsome enemy, instead...

ES balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, in the reign of Edward III . Her preface...

Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer and more recently by Harriet Lee and her sister ). AS 's pilgrims who...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning

Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...

Having accepted her novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Llewelyn Davies had wanted to publish it as her second work, to follow something else less unconventional. He got as far as advertising another...

The title-page bears a quotation from Prior 's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales...

The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...