Lady Jane Grey

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...

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.

INH published through Ellis and Green her first volume of plays (none of which had yet been produced) as Lady Jane Grey ; Inez , or, The Bride of Portugal under the pseudonym Ross Neil...

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

The daughter colony comforts her mother nation. Each is skilled in history, New England recalling past civil wars (beginning with those of Matilda and Stephen ), and Old England lamenting the untimely death of Lady Jane Grey

Her first subject is Princess Charlotte . After that MAK includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce , whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey , Lady Rachel Russell

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...