George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

At the date of the first Miss Byron novel, Elizabeth Strutt was publishing as Mrs Byron while the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron , had had only a single juvenile collection reviewed. While the name...

Just a few days before this MS , her husband , Byron , and Polidori , concocted a project to write ghost stories in friendly competition with each other. On 15 June they discussed the...

According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...

MB wrote occasional verse from her youth. She and Byron exchanged poems at Genoa in May 1823.

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

Just after Byron 's death, LCL confirmed Isaac Nathan 's exclusive right to set her songs to music.

ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...

Byron praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from...

The Times Literary Supplement perceptively noted that this story might have been written in refutation of Byron 's dictum: Man's love is a thing apart while it is a woman's whole existence.

Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan was sexual and...

Joanna Baillie , to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy...

RK 's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron 's much-quoted...

The Athenæum carried a signed review for this book by Virginia Woolf , who went straight to the heart of the matter. It would be easy to make fun of her; equally easy to condescend...

In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB ...

Mary Russell Mitford called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron , recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie , as...