Geoffrey Chaucer

ML met fellow art student Stephen Haweis at the Académie Colarossi . He was an example of pure British privilege who deliberately defied convention. His father, the Rev. H. R. Haweis, was a fashionable...

HL published Canterbury Tales for the Year 1797, the first volume of the work which was to make her famous Geoffrey Chaucer.

SL 's frame story delightfully introduces the series. Her narrator is a male poet, poverty-stricken but eager for fame. Having been driven out of his house by bailiffs, he goes sightseeing and is snowed in...

His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. The pained exaggeration...

M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their...

Julian of Norwich may have been a learned woman; but if so it is not clear who taught her. She seems to have had a reading knowledge of Latin, and to have known the work...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer (from whom as an old...

Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, showing off her learning by modifying the Go, little book formula used by...

Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska , who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde. This...

UAF was anthologized by Adrian Barlow in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning as her Presiding Spirit. Other influences she claimed are...

MD 's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland , author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...

Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer and Shakespeare , stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her...

After an immediate burial at St Anne's Church, Soho, Dryden was given a Westminster Abbey funeral and buried in the grave of Chaucer . Poets lamenting his death included the all-female contributors to The...