William Shakespeare

The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) a mother and daughter as castaways on an island: the mother emulates Crusoe in resourcefulness—until the discovery of male castaways gives...

Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg...

The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's...

While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll , the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare and Verlaine , move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke , and conclude...

The Prince of Morocco is an extraordinary fantasy whose implications are hard to fathom. The man who lost his chance of marriage to Shakespeare 's Portia by choosing the golden casket is here only nicknamed...

In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare : lines from Othello and Macbeth, about prison and murder. The heroine, Ethelinde, grows up in a poor cottage (among woods and pastures, close by the ruined priory in...

Smith's take on Iphis and Ianthe begins with sisters Anthea and Imogen listening to their grandfather's stories from when I was a girl in the women's suffrage movement: a sure induction into matters of gender...

The title comes from the Fool in Shakespeare : Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.This novel portrays the effects of attempting to control the destinies of others.Three different men are cast...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

PA kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train...

Although Shakespeare 's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier

Its title-page quotes from Akenside , but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare , several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross 's...

The play's impulsive young protagonist, Dorothy Archibald, opposes her parents' wishes by falling in love with a bank clerk who plays the violin. Critic Rudolf Weiss has noted that the play is full of echoes...

These letters show her to be a rewarding, informal, up-to-the-minute literary critic. She kept remarkably up to date on the topic of women's writing, showing herself consistently receptive to new styles and new ideas. She...