William Blake

A second edition of MW 's Original Stories from Real Life was published with her name, with illustrations by William Blake .

This book (several times reprinted in England and America, but now rare) has often been omitted from lists of her works. Most of the illustrations, which were added in the second edition, 1791, are by...

The title is from The Gates of Paradise by William Blake , which describes the unnameable God as The lost traveller's dream under the hill.

The book is dedicated to her elder sister, Letitia Fairfield . Its title comes from Blake 's Proverbs of Hell in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, quoted on the title page: The cistern...

MW 's Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and its Costs (in the Chatto Counterblasts Series) lambasted the British government for failing to provide an adequate standard of living for children.

She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus , St Augustine

KT stays with Irish mythology in The Fairy Babe, about a mother whose baby has been replaced by fairies with a changeling child. She figures Ireland in the body of the generous Kathleen who...

In this dedication she was taking a stand against the position of her own party, the Irish Nationalists, who had called for Wyndham's resignation (tendered in March this year) from his position as Chief Secretary...

Again, the title of this volume recalls Blake : his Songs of Innocence and Experience, which appeared by 1794 incorporating the contents of the earlier Songs of Innocence.

From this time on, JT sometimes published a new book as Caroline Harvey, and sometimes reassigned to her pseudonym works first issued under her own name. Leaves from the Valley, for instance (whose...

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

In her reply to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 's accusation of subtle sneering,AS demands: Can't we please get away from hollow psychospeak . . . ? Behold, the mind-forged manacles, at it again...

William Hayley helped CS publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at...

Jessica and her younger brother, Edgar, both respond with ecstasy to an offer to borrow books they have not already read (William Morris , William Blake , [a]nd people I don't know; and books...

By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake , whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison . His acquaintance with artists increases. He...