Ovid

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

Hertford's Story of Inkle and Yarrico delivers the bare bones of the story. Thomas Inkle, an ambitious young English tradesman sailing to the Caribbean to seek his fortune, is shipwrecked en route. As a lone...

In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, showing off her learning by modifying the Go, little book formula used by...

One of the stories, A Modern Orpheus, revisits the Greek myth related by Ovid and others, with a man named Jones playing the Greek hero's Victorian counterpart. The Thracian poet and musician who attempted...

This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid 's description of chaos. SG slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

The title-page quotes Ovid and the first chapter is headed by Byron . The convoluted Italian plot of action and mystery opens with a vivid, modern-seeming summer scene suddenly intruded on by horror. The young...

The first title-page quotes a line from Lansdowne which might serve as an epigraph for most of EH 's oeuvre: first or last, we all must love. The narrative exemplifies her power over her...

Without an academic position, AEH made himself in his spare time the leading classical textual editor of his generation. The edition of Propertius which he worked at from his student days onwards was never published...

LH 's Commonplace Book includes prose notes on religious topics, and long passages of poetry, most of it by other people, and much of it translated. She translated some of Ovid 's amorous Heroides herself...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

She was an avid reader from her youth up and enjoyed free access to her father's library. She devoured various translations from the classics—notably the Metamorphoses of Ovid —and assimilated the contents of Lemprière and...

JCM (formerly Judith Cowper), like almost all of her relations, was a frequent writer of occasional poetry. Most of her surviving poems, and all the major ones, date from about 1720-8, that is from either...

The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the...

DM writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the...