Percy Bysshe Shelley

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

The Critical Review, which had praised AO 's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson 's Clarissa or...

Just a few days before this MS , her husband , Byron , and Polidori , concocted a project to write ghost stories in friendly competition with each other. On 15 June they discussed the...

At her father's death it became necessary for FAK and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an...

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF put on many such readings, performing works by Homer , Shelley , Yeats , Lady Gregory ...

AJ 's biographical play, Shelley ; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

EDA was chiefly a short-story writer, known for her acerbic depictions of personal pain caused by the institution of marriage. Unlike other New Woman writers she shows no bias towards her own sex: her victims...

The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.

In 1876 H. Buxton Forman edited and privately printed a poem by MS entitled The Choice: a Poem on Shelley 's Death. This was reprinted several times in the 1970s.

This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton) (which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF appeared...

MB 's criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley (a version of a lecture given the previous year) was published in the Westminster Review.

AO wrote this novel in order to grapple with the events of 1794, a year which saw the end of the Terror in France, but at home the suspension of Habeas Corpus and the treason...

In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...