King Alfred

Her school plays present King Canute as actually supposing that his kingly power can turn back the sea, and King Alfred , when disguised as a peasant, proving incompetent at simple practical tasks.

Her fellow-student Joy Field (later Whitby) thought her very contained; she later realised that this reserve was the result of acute shyness. She found Oxford daunting. There were fewer grammar school entrants in those...

Elizabeth's brother, William (who was a scholar ten years older than she was, a Fellow of University College, Oxford from 1696, and a clergyman in London from 1702), was an important figure in her earlier...

MC told her friend Caroline Fox that she would write this book from memory without consulting sources. It may be relevant to her choice of title that Mary Martha Sherwood had published a children's book...

Bath was familiar to her from visits; she may at first have intended no more than another extended visit for herself and her daughter. Very soon she had moved them both into Thomas Wilson's home...

These two poems are linked by something resembling a dramatic structure. IL presents the princess being lamented by a Cambrian minstrel, then by shepherdesses, shepherds, and nymphs of the sea and the woods (each bringing...

Ralph Thoresby recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE had published some composures of her own apart from her Scudéry translation. She certainly worked with her brother—first as his assistant, then as his...

Among works that SSW claimed when corresponding, late in life, with the Royal Literary Fund were a Life of Alfred the Great and a work entitled Romance and Reason in two volumes.

Although she planned a poem on the life of Alfred to go with the life of Richard in Coeur de Lion, she never produced it.

The sonnets begin with the arrival of human beings on the lands that became Great Britain and wend their way through history, moving through treatments of the English kings including Alfred the Great and Ethelred the Unready

Many of their subjects are national heroes, as in Alfred , King of the English, 1939. CO 's obituary in the Times mentions Baltic Spy, 1940, as the most original among them.

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...