William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Dedications Christabel Coleridge
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...
Publishing Mary Maria Colling
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, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85.
16
Bray...
Family and Intimate relationships Ivy Compton-Burnett
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 ...
Intertextuality and Influence Ivy Compton-Burnett
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)...
Characters Ivy Compton-Burnett
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.
British Book News. British Council.
(1959): 747
It features...
Textual Production Eliza Cook
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 .
Cook, Eliza. The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook. F. Warne.
586
Education Catherine Cookson
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...
Education Catherine Cookson
Once married, CC set out to educate herself with books from the public library. She read the central canon in English from Shakespeare to the Romantics. She also read philosophy and found Socrates a help...
Leisure and Society Maria Susanna Cooper
MSC kept up with contemporary publications. She asked her son Astley to send her from London the latest volume of Johnson 's edition of Shakespeare
Cooper, Bransby Blake. The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. John W. Parker.
1: 136
and found the works of Hannah Morea...
Textual Production Wendy Cope
Four hundred years after Shakespeare 's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a...
Occupation Marie Corelli
Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...
Reception Marie Corelli
MC took her own work extremely seriously, seeing herself as the Shakespeare of her age and genre.
Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, p. xi - xviii.
xiv
Her status as an unprecedented best-seller brought both celebration and derision, just as her anti-suffrage views, which...
Education Marie Corelli
Looking back on her early education, MC wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively...
Residence Marie Corelli
In Stratford, MC became known as an eccentric. Her forceful character and her self-proclaimed guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory and birthplace offended many townspeople.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
She was a strong critic of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ...
Intertextuality and Influence Blanche Warre Cornish
The title-page quotes Shakespeare and Germaine de Staël . The novel introduces its protagonist, William Milton, with generalisations about different types of people, especially those who refuse, out of pride or laziness, to compete for...

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