Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After an epigraph from Goethe (in German) EW begins with her earliest memory, which she identifies with the birth of identity and relates in the third person, of the little girl who eventually became me...

The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch and another based on Goethe 's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to...

More takes a sceptical view of sensibility: she reproves both the representation of it in Goethe 's Werther (which had been available in English for about three years) and the sentimental enthusiasm which the book...

The third rejected novel was the story of a young man working at a tedious business job in London who loves art and travel and the good life, who falls in with a powerful and...

Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before...

Indebted to the tradition of Goethe 's Faust, the story may have influenced Marie Corelli 's Sorrows of Satan (1895).

Sarah Harriet Burney , like her famous sister, was troubled at GS 's unconventionality. She wrote that she yawned over De l'Allemagneand yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do...

The poems are printed chronologically (by the author's desire rather than the editor's). MBE 's introduction says nothing about her subject's parentage or his life-history, but canvasses the issues involved in selecting from his poems...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

CS 's original poems express her deeply unhappy feelings. With them she included translations from Petrarch and (in verse) of passages from Goethe 's Werther. She added notes to the translations.

Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations. As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...

She designed it to combat the influence of romantic fiction, and to answer Germaine de Staël 's Delphine and Goethe 's Sorrows of Werther. Leonora is ME 's next ideal domestic woman after...

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

Syndy Conger has noted that this novel reveals a shift in Smith's attitude to sensibility in the four years since her sonnets: where she was enthusiastic she is now sceptical, even satirical, in her stance...

Set on the coast of Devon fifty years earlier, it traces the fates of two strong characters: Methodist preacher and shopkeeper Joshua Haggard and his daughter Naomi. In the opening scene, Joshua rescues Oswald Pentreath...