Francis Bacon

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.

The year after her elder son 's death, AB passed on the family estate of Gorhambury Place, near St Albans, to her younger son, Sir Francis .

Each chapter reflects on a single yet complex aspect of female life in India, from a woman's birth to her death. Each includes an epigraph to introduce its themes and issues, some from Indian cultural...

Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch

JB began young: he published his first work, a hymn, in 1887, at the age of eleven. While at university he published poetry, history, a historical novel, and short stories, and he also edited Francis Bacon

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

While many of her articles were printed in the Edinburgh Review, she also contributed to a range of other periodicals. And while she focused her writings primarily on astronomy, she by no means neglected...

Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...

Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions...

DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).

DDM published The Winding Stair, a biography of Sir Francis Bacon (about whom she had already written the previous year in Golden Lads).

The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. The body...

Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG called this the happiest house we have had. Three years later she suddenly moved again; she missed London, and felt her elder...

SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, whether in religion, politics...