George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

The play was written for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , who first performed it in Edinburgh on 24 January 1986. Lochhead surprised herself with her use of the Scots language: my grandmother's ....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan , Byron , and especially Scott

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...

It was widely and enthusiastically reviewed. Biographer Lorna Reynolds says KOB , like Byron , awoke one day to find herself famous.

In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyMarya DeVoto noted the interest in The Star of Attéghéi (and other poems in the volume) in the idea of exile, and the elegaic tone that pervades the volume...

William Lamb worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...

Byron considered this poem inadequate as a result of FH 's lack of first-hand knowledge of Greece; her position on the controversial appropriation of the Greek antiquities by Britain also differed from his.

The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone , asked that two of JB 's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.

Byron disparaged what he judged to be Rosa's absurd and incomprehensible prose in masquerade in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, published in March 1809, linking her to the Della Cruscans . She...