William Hazlitt

Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt , Coleridge , and Schlegel .

It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...

From her youth, HM tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four...

She wrote him long letters, discussing his work and opinions as well as her own, in an elaborately parenthetical and breathless style. The first extant letter begins, Will you pity—I have said—or will you not...

After her second marriage MB entertained a wholly new project, the writing of a book of tales and verses designed for children. For this too she solicited Scott's help and patronage, after deciding to shy...

Next summer they visited James Burney (brother of Frances) and his family on the Isle of Wight. In 1804 they economised by going no further than Richmond in Surrey. In June 1807 they...