Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair...

CB 's fable, almost certainly based on one by La Fontaine and possibly also on another by J. P. Florian , features a wise old rat, a former courtier living in retirement, and his son...

Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) began work on her earliest play (of the four published in 1821): Gonzalvo of Cordova, which she based on a part of the little novelGonzalve de...