William Shakespeare

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

Knopf Canada published MA 's Hag-Seed, a revisioning of Shakespeare 's The Tempest for the Hogarth Shakespeare series which sets out to re-imagine the plays in novel form.

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

AC published Absent in the Spring, another novel under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, which she had written within three days in July 1943.

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

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

ME 's journals, kept from her youth onwards, often served to write what I want to get rid of. In the mid and later 1930s they break out periodically in a passionate fury of...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

AC 's play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London: adapted from the title story in her Three Blind Mice, and Other Stories, 1948. It was still playing in 2014, as...

KFP dreamed of success as a playwright as well as an actress at least from the year 1911. In February 1918 she was working on a play, apparently about divorce, to be entitled Broken...

Although she disapproved of The Mill on the Floss, GJ praised George Eliot 's Adam Bede for its genius and also liked Silas Marner for its depictions of human nature, however humbly embodied it...

EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack

At the age of eight, GS tried to write a Shakespeare an drama. She abandoned this project, however, for the less demanding melodrama, Snatched from Death; or, The Sundered Sisters.