Oliver Goldsmith

HW 's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach...

As a small child DW loved the Bible. She had a child's bible with illustrations, and was fascinated by stories of Christ's miracles (though a blind man took it badly when she proposed spitting...

Many of AJV 's poems reflect her learning. She incorporated lines of Greek in An Arctic Islander in London (October 1818), and based La Morte d'Arthur (European Magazine 79 (1821): 553-5, with annotations), on...

Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...

Sydney Owenson took up a governess job with Margaret Featherstone or Featherstonehaugh of Bracklin Castle, Westmeath.

The book had coloured illustrations. ES adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

AS penned a poem she called Eyam, reminiscent of Goldsmith 's The Deserted Village, about a visit back to her birthplace.

She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading, and offers...

The heroine suffers under not one but two bad mother-figures, neither of whom is her birth mother. It opens with Greville, a country curate whose spirit has been wounded by the vice and deceit of...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

Julie Ellison , who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson and Goldsmith , and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions, judges that the poem's vision of racial harmony depends on...

Harriet Martineau was amazed when AM first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood ) must have been almost equally amazed...

A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and...