George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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.

While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll , the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare and Verlaine , move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke , and conclude...

In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick , EJ 's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys...

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.

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

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

Though this novel shares some terrain with Gissing 's New Grub Street, critic Margaret Stetz finds that the two have little in common, since they take aim at very different aspects of the contemporary...

MS wrote mainly in verse for a working-class audience with the intent of instilling moral virtues in her readers. She believed that children memorize poetry easily, and that their imaginations are cultivated and their intellects...

Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron , and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron 's Childe Harold. An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM 's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...

MEB was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...

For readers familiar with the Shakespeare comedy (as Jemima certainly is), parallels are discernible between the personages and situations on stage and those of the actual world—parallels which are unsettling rather than helpful for Jemima...

This tale reached its fifth edition independently of the other Tales in 1823, when it appeared as a kind of trailer to John Murray 's projected edition of the whole series. Byron recognised Kruitzner as...