George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent...

LCL met with Byron 's funeral cortege (by accident, she said) on its way from London to Newstead; she never really recovered from the breakdown brought on by this encounter.

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

BP began this novel as a story about Hilary and me as spinsters of fiftyish—that is, about a then unimaginable future. Its dry humour and irony, its concentration on middle-aged spinsters, clergy, and the...

She quotes Byron on the title-page. As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...

Paul Douglass points out that Ada Reis is a work of scholarship as well as of imagination; before writing the text, LCL had digested many recent works of travel and exploration, including those by...

In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe and Pierre Cardenal , and of Chateaubriand 's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that...

She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch , Byron , Germaine de Staël .In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel (full...

This is a rollicking, fizzing, flighty, purposely excessive poem. It parodies yet also hitches a lift on Byron 's own whimsical style. Impersonating the male poet who lambasts Our maudlin, hey-down-derrified pathetic frees Lamb...

It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron 's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper 's The Task (whence...

The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH 's share of the profits split with John Murray was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the...

A number of HEW 's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley , Byron , Eliza Cook

Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...

Influenced by Eliot 's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. It is structured as a four...

Sarah Harriet Burney , like her famous sister, was troubled at GS 's unconventionality. She wrote that she yawned over De l'Allemagneand yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do...