William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Friends, Associates Vernon Lee
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...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Lennox
CL won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson and Samuel Richardson . (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti to Johnson, and had...
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...
Family and Intimate relationships Kathleen Raine
KR 's father, George Raine (the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of...
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Smyth
They were familiar with one another's work before they met. In a 1921 review of Smyth's memoirs, Woolf wrote that ESlooks the militant, working, professional woman—the woman who had shocked the country by jumping...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth von Arnim
In a letter to Dorothy Brett , Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves...
Family and Intimate relationships Leah Sumbel
She fell in love with him at London, where they were playing the leads in Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare , but after the wedding he sent her back to her mother as being too young...
Family and Intimate relationships Ivy Compton-Burnett
Five years after Ivy came home from college, her mother's death left her, her brother Noel, and Martyn Mowll as joint trustees and guardians of her four younger sisters: Vera , Judy , Topsy ...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Batten Cristall
Her mother was born Elizabeth Batten ; she christened her daughter with her mother's first name and her own birth surname. She was the daughter of a merchant and the sister of a dissenting minister...
Family and Intimate relationships Aemilia Lanyer
At about eighteen AL became mistress to Lord Chamberlain Hunsdon (soldier, courtier, and patron of Shakespeare 's company), who was forty-five years her senior. In this capacity she lived richly.
Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, p. xv - li.
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Family and Intimate relationships Matilda Betham-Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards , cousin of MBE , became known as a novelist, travel-writer, and Egyptologist.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland.
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Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
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Matilda got to know her well while serving as a governess-pupil at Mimosa House in Peckham...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Ann Kelty
Before she was fifteen MAK fell in love with a young nobleman, an undergraduate who had been at school with her brother. His nodding civilly to her at a concert,
Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co.
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by promoting me to...
Family and Intimate relationships A. Mary F. Robinson
They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France (in succession to Ernest Renan
Family and Intimate relationships Michael Field
They took their vow after attending a wedding. Cooper, somewhat abashed at the proceedings, said they swore with the bright world 'round us, that we will remain Poets & Lovers whatever may happen to hinder...

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