William Shakespeare

DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).

After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray nonetheless encouraged EW to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW sketched...

FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

GB published her fourth travel book, Amurath to Amurath, which she copiously illustrated with her own photographs, according to a recent biographer.

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack

At the age of eight, GS tried to write a Shakespeare an drama. She abandoned this project, however, for the less demanding melodrama, Snatched from Death; or, The Sundered Sisters.

Although she disapproved of The Mill on the Floss, GJ praised George Eliot 's Adam Bede for its genius and also liked Silas Marner for its depictions of human nature, however humbly embodied it...

Benger wrote an impromptu poem in the presence of one W. J. S., A Lament: on the Paucity of Information Respecting the Life and Character of Shakespeare—a fitting subject for a biographer.

This by no means exhausts the list of EN 's writings for children. The first number of The Enchanted Castle (which is less episodic, perhaps less brilliant, and more socially critical than the Phoenix or...

LR published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer , Robert Henryson , and Shakespeare .