John Milton

EG's first literary activity came at the age of nine, when she attempted to imitate Milton . As she later put it, I very early discovered a faculty for rhyming scarcely worthy to be dignified...

Charlotte Lennox is alluded to in this book (though AG gives her birth name wrongly as Massey), along with the more highly-ranked Milton and Johnson (whose Life of Savage she echoes, without naming...

As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG claims authority for her work by quoting Milton on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style...

This bore both her birth and married names (Mrs. Laurence Cowen) and sold for one shilling, dedicated to the Members of the London Stock Exchange . In an introduction she mentions the libel...

Among these poems, To Miss —— (March 1783) is a poem of advice which recommends Milton 's Eve as a model. It applies to dawning reason the language both of religion and Romanticism: Go seek...

This edition brings together the duchess's work with that of others including Burns . OCLC records only a single extant copy, at the University of British Columbia . Saint Gothard would certainly have appeared in...

Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...

Juliana Ewing called MG 's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.

Most striking of all is A Diologue between the Serpentt and Eve, which may have been written on the model of the speeches in Milton 's Paradise Lost, but does not refer to...

In AF 's thriller Cool Repentance her detective, Jemima Shore, owed her solution of the mystery to her ability to recognise a line from Milton 's Comus.

As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in...

EF wrote her Dramatic Sketches, Elidure in three weeks and Edward in two, after reading Milton 's History of Britain, that Part especially now call'd England, 1670.

EF published with Sinclair-Stevenson a novel entitled The Tree of Knowledge, centred on the longest-surviving daughter of the poet Milton .

EF 's protagonist covers many topics: she speaks of her female experience (deaths of children in successive generations, anxiety for survivors, living with gendered contempt), her economic experience (the poverty of weavers, like her husband...

For this anthology EF gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare and Milton , as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton and Helen Maria Williams ...