John Milton

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

Its womanizing protagonist, Mr Hutton, considers himself the Christ of Ladies (reversing, with what he supposes to be worldly wit, the supposed nickname of Milton as the lady of Christ's). His internal monologue...

LA 's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or...

The book moves into vivid narrative with OE 's abduction, his mostly tolerable experiences as a slave in Africa (constantly moving on until he reached a tribe who were morally corrupted by whites), and his...

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

Quotations heading chapters come from Milton and other mostly modern poets, including Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson . Other inset poems may be EFC 's own. The story opens as Portuguese peasants encounter a fainting...

In Critical Fragments, on some of the English Poets (seven poets, all male), EH wittily exercises an imitation which is far from flattery. She begins with Milton , who in ponder'ous verse, moves greatly on...

MR 's preface quotes that of Charlotte Smith to her Elegiac Sonnets. She presents her own work as one of scholarship, explaining that by legitimate in her title she means the sonnet in...

How, she asks, can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? She mentions the tradition of misogynist writing, and suggests that men have had exclusive...

Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME 's teachers: Milton , Thomas Traherne , Walter de la Mare , and Thomas Hardy , the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

In addition to quotation from Milton , Pope , and Thomson , this book has a Sterne an flavour, with passages titled from sights (like The Theatre Royal and The Merchants's Court) alternating with...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon . GHS quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid through Milton and Wordsworth

Jocelyn has in a distant past studied English literature and is occasionally disconcerting. Do you believe in free will?, she asks, out of the blue. Stan replies, How do you mean? He replies...