Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, http://U of Toronto.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The essays include Samuel Pepys
and Francis Bacon
, Lord Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, http://U of Toronto. title-page |
Education | Emily Shirreff | William Grey
, the girls' cousin and Maria's future husband, encouraged them to study philosophy, particularly the writings of Francis Bacon
and John Locke
. A cousin of their father, Sir William Hall Gage
... |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Hatchways is one of ES
's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives.... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | CS
's father, William Thomas Smedley
, was a chartered accountant and company director, a philanthropist, a free-thinker, and a bibliophile. His magnificent Shakespeare
-Bacon
book collection, including more than a hundred volumes of... |
Textual Features | Constance Smedley | This first dialogue concerned the Baconian controversy. CS
's father was given to harping on his belief that Sir Francis Bacon
wrote the works of Shakespeare
. This is the position taken by Smedley's Victorian... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Stevenson | Many of these poems are occasional. Journal Entry: Ward's Island, inscribed to Lauris Edmond
, recalls minus-eighteen-degree weather on the last day of a poetry festival in Toronto in February 1989. (AS
describes... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | Here CS
attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon
was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare
. She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Roma White | In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | The first study of VW
was that of Winifred Holtby
in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW
during their student days have included Mary Lavin
and Michèle Barrett
. In 1992... |
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