Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet at this time books discovered in the public library taught her the possibilities in writing: Greek and Elizabethan dramatists. Dostoievsky (Crime and Punishment and Virginia Woolf 's The Waves . ....

She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James

RG 's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell 's Troy Park and Façade...

In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Her urge to write was fostered by her discovery of Dostoyevsky 's...

GBS published Heartbreak House (with two other plays), a Chekhov ian drama about the corruption of British society on the eve of the First World War.

TD began writing as a child, producing stories about family doings for her mother and sisters. During her last years at school, from 1911, the school magazine, St Ursula's Annual, featured her stories. Living...

AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson

The setting of this novel is a theatre festival at the grand country home of a former stage star, Christabel Cartwright; Chekhov 's The Seagull, which is to be performed, provides a hidden parallel...

This particular story, however, was adapted without acknowledgment from one by Chekhov . It appears that KM 's conscience was not clear about this unmentioned debt.

As a child Betty Coles (later ET ) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. At twelve...

The play traces a bourgeois family's fall from riches to rags as a result of the levelling down of classes in the Russian Revolution. The action begins in 1912 and runs until 1921, the year...

The play's development was influenced by another project PG was working on at the time, a translation of Uncle Vanya. Her own play, she explains, was much influenced by Chekhov , I had tried...

EOB 's imaginative development was nourished by her wide reading, and consideration of a number of writers helped to shape her own style and vision. She has said in (April 2002) that one learns the...

Although JJ says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...

When in London KPF enjoyed going to the theatre, often with John Robert Collins . She loved Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins in April 1907, thought Ibsen 's A Doll's House splendid in March...