Ovid

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Not all the poems in the volume are written in Ephelia's voice (which adds an extra dimension to argument over the ascription of those written in other voices). It seems that Ephelia enjoyed ventriloquizing the...

She also says that it can be read as the mirror-image of her earliest novelistic theme: the child's relation to the mother. Duffy dedicates the book to St Venus (a saint whose festival is...

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

ASB continued her interest in Ovid with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry in early 2000. In 2001 she edited On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays...

One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...

EB shares the Scriblerian enthusiasm for mixing genres. She presents To Proteus, The Indisputable God of Change as A Dedication of the foregoing Poem, as a revolutionary Epistle, that shall still more accomplish'dly beautify never-indolent...

As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (who later talked with high praise of her),MMB acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...

Catharine Macaulay , she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute.She...

AB wrote a verse epistle, Ovid to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave (later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne .

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...