George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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...

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...

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...

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...

Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier , Alphonse Daudet , Shakespeare , Byron , or Swinburne , she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style...

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

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...

The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English...

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...

In considering the question of why Mary Shelley created monsters, LL says she was haunted by that phrase from Goya : The sleep of reason produces monsters. If you try to force things to be...

Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM named Hemans and Byron in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson and Wordsworth .

EH writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim...

The title poem relates how simple Rosalie leaves her rustic home with a rich young man, Arthur, who lives with her but does not marry her. Deserted and rejected after bearing his baby, she sinks...

The poem describes the pilgrimage abroad in which the child-author had followed in the footsteps of her dead mountaineer brother. His death, however, does not loom large in the poem, which combines musing with...

The title-page quotes from Spenser , and the first chapter from Johnson 's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference...