William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1856. An oval frame is painted round Shakespeare, who looks inscrutably at the viewer, with a bald forehead, moustache and small beard, wearing a black coat with white collar and a hoop earring in his left ear.

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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 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, 1986.
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Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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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 Viola Tree
Throughout her life, VT took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed...
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 Geraldine Jewsbury
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Janet Hamilton
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
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...
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 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...
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 May Cannan
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
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books, 2000.
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to consult Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . He responded...
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, 1993, p. xv - li.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anne Bacon
AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.
The early-twentieth-century Baconian movement (a group of scholars and...
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., 1869.
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by promoting me to...
Family and Intimate relationships John Strange Winter
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 ...

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