George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

The title-page quotes Byron on the power of Fate. The heroine is not always pretty, nor is she always Miss Neville. The book opens in the voice of eleven-year-old Nora O'Neill, known as Miggs, generally...

The title-page quotes Ovid and the first chapter is headed by Byron . The convoluted Italian plot of action and mystery opens with a vivid, modern-seeming summer scene suddenly intruded on by horror. The young...

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

AR 's rival M. G. Lewis finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...

MC 's title-page quotes Byron and her preface declares her subject to be the independence struggle of the patriots of the New World. She gives her first 76 pages to an introductory sketch of...

She particularly admired Joanna Baillie 's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart . Germaine de Staël 's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

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...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

The title-page quotes Byron pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...

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...

Love Without Wings takes its epigraph from Byron , though RMA writes, Friendship is love, without wings. Byron had written without his wings, but Ayres was evidently not interested in personifying the god...

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)...

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...