William 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.

Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey and by Ethel Watts (chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service ), the latter of whom hoped that in the future...

In the first months of 1834 AEB found herself again in ill-health. She lost her sight and was confined to her bedroom, where she amused herself by repeating passages from Shakespere [sic], or inventing plots...

EHD took the title for the collection (and for the first story) from a line in Shakespeare 's Henry IV: Were it good / To set the exact wealth of all our states /...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

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...

MEB 's Hostages to Fortune, also published in 1875, gives a more sustained view of the theatre milieu than did A Strange World. It tells the story of Herman Westray's struggle to succeed...

The titles, however, reveal that romance is to be countered with romance: The Generous Poverty, The Honourable Infidelity, The Fortunate Misfortune, The Double Rape, etc., sound like novels, and they employ...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare . This novel follows, with serious concern as well as satirical humour, the career choices made by the sons of the Cleavland family. Their father favours science and agriculture, which he...

The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel...

Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play by GBS dramatizing a confrontation between the two playwrights, was first produced at Malvern by the Waldo Lanchester Marionette Theatre .

After the Second World War, and Influenced by her varied studies (of Shakespeare , Mallarmé , Colette , and of Persia) as well as by her perceptions of contemporary European warfare, Bryher wrote...

The title poem explains the implications of the title: I was set here / To watch. So I do, / And report, in cipher, to headquarters, / Which is an hypothesis. Hospital patients re-appear:...

This is a satirical novel set on a US campus—though not, PHJ insists, embodying any identifiable place or people. The title, from Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream, suggests that the campus of the story...