William Shakespeare

Her father, John Sadler , was a well-to-do druggist and tobacconist who came from Stratford upon Avon. His grandfather was probably at school with Shakespeare , and he himself was connected by marriage with...

AW probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth , a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare 's father) in the glove trade.

One of JSW 's great-great-grandmothers (on her father's side) was Hannah Pritchard , a celebrated actress and singer. Henrietta seems not to have known that this made her a great-niece of Alicia Tyndal Palmer ...

However, the intense jealousy that had early affected the friendship persisted. Around 1846 GJ began her friendship with the American actress Charlotte Cushman , who was then visiting Manchester. Much to the frustration of...

Of her married life, JH recollected that she then stole her reading hours from sleep, and that many an hour have I spent in reading, holding the book in one hand, and nursing an infant...

At their fifth meeting he asked her to marry him. She was not in love. She agonised about her love for Bevil; she wrote with tears to consult Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . He responded...

Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC . During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the...

The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt 's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare 's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed...

She met Sarah Fielding at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding , Saunders Welch (the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery . She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...

Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer , Anna Brownell Jameson , Frances Power Cobbe , Thomas Carlyle , George MacDonald , Lady Eastlake , Elizabeth Rundle Charles , Lady Martin

From 1941 to 1943, the Wilsons received into their home sixteen-year-old Audrey Butler , an evacuee from England. They were generous with both their familial warmth and finances. Audrey shared the Wilsons' love of Shakespeare

WH met Jean McWilliam at the WAAC unit at Huchenneville. They corresponded throughout Holtby's life, writing to one another as Rosalind and Celia from Shakespeare 's mutually devoted heroines in As You Like It.

EN began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare were actually written by Francis Bacon ).

A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...