John Keats

The volume was published in a limited edition of 680. A translucent interleaf bearing words from Keats 's Ode to Psyche: . . . A casement ope at night / To let...

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...

Through this experience she met the literary biographer Robert Gittings . She built with him a professional partnership to work on interpretations of John Keats and Thomas Hardy , of whom Gittings was writing biographies...

Reviews were slow to appear, and according to RL 's brother John many of the early ones were lukewarm or even hostile. However, the poet Alfred Noyes (a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...

The Spectator greeted this collection effusively as without question the most promising of any first appearance in this century, except that of Keats , and the Saturday Review asserted, presumably with reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When Thomas Moore read Psyche he expressed his pleasure to MT in a short lyric which calls her by the name of her protagonist, Psyche; at her death he eulogised her by the same...

As soon as it was brought to public attention (as the work of a woman who had died tragically young), Psyche attracted a rush of attention. The Quarterly Review accorded Tighe high praise as being...

Holyoake , the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD 's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought...

Rebecca was DDM 's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

BE substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family...

From the age of about seven DL had a sense of vocation, thinking of herself as an artist-person and as having a destiny. She aspired after fame from the time that she first read...

The narrator of this novel is a woman writer whose name is Jane, and who has a fussily loving sister called Ella. Jane is a Londoner, but, ill with neuritis (later described as consumption), she...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

Most of these stories inhabit JG 's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story...