John Milton

She dedicated this work to her two grandsons, and quoted Milton on its title-page.

Helen Waddell , translated and privately printed in a small booklet Lament for Damon, a version of Milton 's Epitaphium Damonis.

Dame Felicitas Corrigan edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton.

She attended the Victoria School for Girls in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast

In a letter she wrote in December 1892, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, she assesses the religious and other opinions she held during a period of her life that was about to close...

At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats 's Ode to Autumn...

Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died...

Twenty-two of the poems are the sister's, thirty-eight the brother's, and three are written by Eliza, a sister-in-law. An Advertisement gallantly suggests that the lady outshines the gentleman. EST 's verse introduction confesses her early...

TBBM received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party in Parliament . There he took a role in passing the...

Whether or not TT 's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare and Milton through...

Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. When Betty was eleven...

In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton 's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), with the counter-assertion: It is not for God...

Her preface says she is not altogether unknown to the religious Public because of her periodical publications. The longest poem in the collection, Thoughts in Solitude is an ambitious undertaking, though ET expresses conventional...

In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish...

Volume three opens with a mock trial: the Crawleys hope to get innocent men (including the hero) condemned for insurrection; the English or Anglicised Irish aristocrats are flightily amused at performing a trial scene. The...