Lady Jane Grey

EW , then Ellen Price , began writing in childhood with compositions that included poetic lives of Lady Jane Grey and Catherine de Medici . None of these early works survive.

Other poems in this volume include Lucy's Grave (a tale of a girl who was Three times an orphan and dies after she loses her looks and with them her lover's heart), an epistle...

The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk , The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England : An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature...

The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone , Lady Rachel Russell (with a copy...

The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will...

ET 's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous...

GS wrote a drama in verse, Sophie; ou, Les sentimens secrets; she followed this the next year with another verse play, Jane Gray, about the young English scholar and nine-days queen.

His mother, Lady Mary Sidney , was a duke's daughter and sister of two brothers who became earls (one of them, Robert Dudley , the Earl of Leicester and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth )...

MS expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses. She looks farther into the past for examples than he does. Whereas Duncombe begins with Orinda (Katherine Philips ), MS turns back to the Renaissance...

Having laid out her case, AMS proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious...

This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in...

Some of the fictions relate to philosophical and theological debates of the time; others have subject-matter typical of the novels of Eliza Haywood or Penelope Aubin . Love situations turn on eros as well as...

She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...

MM believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on...

The preface to Conversations on Language mentions JM 's long experience and her popularity with the public to justify her presentation to children of such a complex and difficult subject. In Conversations on the History...