John Donne

Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne 's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury 's own Newes from Court. Details in the...

ALS wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems...

RM published And No Man's Wit, a highly political novel set during the SpanishCivil War.

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans

She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell , A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of...

PB published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne 's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding , the lawyer on circuit.

The number of sonnets in the end was fifty-two. The book was dedicated to Elinor Wylie . Its title comes from Donne (By our first strange and fatal interview); it replaced...

It was published by John Lane in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and New York. Although PB had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from...

In her first novel, Imagined Corners, WM examined the repression and fragmentation of the self through two women who bear the same name but present opposing images of femininity.