William Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

The possibility of marriage was made more feasible by the deaths of her parents (not because they opposed the match but because she felt responsible for their care). The couple were engaged by early 1823...

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...

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...

EN began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare were actually written by Francis Bacon ).

She met Sarah Fielding at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding , Saunders Welch (the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery . She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...

A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...

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...

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...

Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer , Anna Brownell Jameson , Frances Power Cobbe , Thomas Carlyle , George MacDonald , Lady Eastlake , Elizabeth Rundle Charles , Lady Martin