Alexandre Dumas

MA was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. She then attended various schools, except for a period of learning at home with a governess after she had...

MB early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer ) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy...

On holidays her father taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to...

Her time at at St Stephens and later at Annie Wright Episcopal Boarding Schoolwere marked by self discovery and intellectual growth, as she actively sought to broaden her horizons and challege her beliefs. She...

Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott , Baudelaire , Dumas , Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.

After his mother's death Buchanan continued to write, and he and HJ collaborated on a number of further plays. On 5 January 1899—shortly after their final production (an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas 's Les Demoiselles...

Waters argues that MEB ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of...

The Athenæum continued its speculation on MEB 's gender by opining that this was not an appropriate book to issue from a female pen, and condemning it as an inadequate imitation of Alexandre Dumas ....

The Spectator, reviewing Gathered Leaves, called this story one of the most original and entrancing of short stories . . . . . It is a furiously romantic tale, yet purged of all...

After 1837 IH composed a drama based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas the elder about the Sicilian bandit Pascal Bruno. Though preparations were made for the play's performance, the production foundered, after bitter argument...

Even after her father's death lifted the pressing need for earnings, MRM edited a collection for young readers of fiction by Dumas the elder.

In a letter, MEC explained the novel's genesis four years before publication: [T]he first chapter came into my head, and I scribbled it down, only putting letters for the different men . . ....

In the year her first child was born, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , translated under her married name Alexandre Dumas the elder's The Glacier Land, about his travels in Switzerland.

By the following year she was writing: not only a diary, and soon an extensive correspondence, but also poetry (not about adolescent feelings but about places and historical characters); long, romantic, historical novels in the...

By 10 November 1898 they had colllaborated on an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas 's play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr as the romantic comedy Two Little Maids from School (its title adapted from a song in...