William Shakespeare

MCC and her husband began work on a commission from Cassell and Co. for an annotated edition of Shakespeare .

The theoretical essay with which FPC headed Josephine Butler 's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than...

AC 's occasional writings include a serious self-examination in rhythmical prose entitled The Character of Mrs C—n by Herself, which begins: Born with too much sensibility to enjoy ease, / With high ideas of...

This small-size book has an ornamental cover and title-page, both printed in black and red on white.CC dedicates it, with a quotation offering flowers, from Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale, to J. F...

MEC was educated at home. She read widely during her childhood, including works by Shakespeare and Malory . She studied poetry, history and drawing. Saturday afternoons were spent with friends, acting scenes from Scott 's...

Reportedly, during the earliest stages of her illness, she was found resting on the sofa and reading Shakespeare . Life is worth living, she told her family, as long as there is King Lear to...

By the time she reached twenty, MEC was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare for The Theatre.

That same year MEC composed A Clever Woman, a poem detailing its female speaker's heartbreak upon realizing that her intellect has made her beloved view her as if she were a platonic male companion...

Most of the stories are reprinted from periodicals. The book also includes excerpts from s and journal entries, as well as notes taken during Greek classes with William Cory , and six unpublished poems. A...

Some time after 17 March 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green presented Colling with a copy of the plays of Shakespeare (the Bard), having heard that she admired his poetry. Bray...

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 ...

This was a new influence added to those of the Victorian novelists (especially the women), Shakespeare , and Jane Austen , whom she admired extravagantly (Even her dull scraps are music to me)...

In A Heritage and its History an elderly uncle marries a young girl, his nephew seduces her and the son of their union later wishes to marry the nephew's legitimate daughter. It features...

On Shakespeare 's presumed three hundredth birthday, a Working Men's Shakspeare [sic] Celebration was held, at which Henry Marston spoke a Tercentenary Ode written for the occasion by EC .

The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton , and Donne , they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC did read a Shakespeare sonnet at about this age and...