William Shakespeare

Hatchways is one of ES 's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives....

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

The story begins where many novels end: with the happiness of the eponymous heroine as she reaches the age of eighteen as a virtuous, well-educated heiress, married by her own choice to Count Harton. Her...

But as in her previous novel, MS turns aside from a happy ending which is already within her reach. Ulrich has an affair with Viria, who gives him for Agnes what she claims is a...

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play by GBS dramatizing a confrontation between the two playwrights, was first produced at Malvern by the Waldo Lanchester Marionette Theatre .

The play was published in 1901, with a preface titled BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE ?

Germaine Greer 's Poems for Gardeners, 2003, includes several of the sensuous little 2-stanza poems that are Shapcott's version of Rainer Maria Rilke 's Les Roses, and printed in her Tender Taxes...

Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC . During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the...

She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare 's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright . In the title...

MS published Pictures and Ballads of London Life, illustrated with twelve coloured pictures by J. M. Kronheim .

EJS is wary of the transformations of poetry: this apparition / A rainbow truth altering for every eye. The real King Richard II , who died in obscurity after a life of ruin and negation...

GHS worked with her husband on a translation of Ferdinand Bruckner 's Rassen, which she describes as a Jewish William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet. They found the work a rush (it had to be ready...

Tillie Olsen in 1978 pointed out a striking anticipation here of Woolf 's A Room of One's Own: what of the possible Shakespeares we might have had who passed their life from youth upward...

Her editors call her a forerunner of Frances Trollope in her American critique, though her attitudes are shaped by reactionary political views in a way that Trollope's are not. Her reports are more...