Ovid

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...

JB writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade. She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley

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...

MW published a study entitled Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, a work which, like her preceding novel and short-story collection, reflects her interest in the Metamorphoses of Ovid .

Rewriting Ovid , NCB attributes Sappho 's death to her love for Timas, a young female disciple, instead of Phaon. The text incorporates quotations from Sappho , together with footnotes in Greek and critical commentary.

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

Pound weaves classical mythology and legend into the first set of cantos, with allusions to Odysseus, Dionysus, and Ovid .

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...

Again this book inhabits the borders between living and dead, dream and waking; many short poems create self-contained moments in the progress of some quest or pilgrimage. The rather longer Tomis, December, speaks...

This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all...

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...

MR 's preface quotes that of Charlotte Smith to her Elegiac Sonnets. She presents her own work as one of scholarship, explaining that by legitimate in her title she means the sonnet in...

Here MW enlarges on Ovid 's tale through her heroine Leto, a woman who travels through time, metamorphosing from a pre-Christian-era mother to a present-day refugee. Thus, Warner brings the Ovidian notion of metamorphosis to...

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...