Francis Bacon

Hatchways is one of ES 's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives....

This first dialogue concerned the Baconian controversy. CS 's father was given to harping on his belief that Sir Francis Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare . This is the position taken by Smedley's Victorian...

Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG called this the happiest house we have had. Three years later she suddenly moved again; she missed London, and felt her elder...

The first study of VW was that of Winifred Holtby in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW during their student days have included Mary Lavin and Michèle Barrett . In 1992...

Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...

She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Her post involved a week of constant waiting on the Princess followed by some...

A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result...

Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN 's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway...

The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon , Virgil , and Sir Roger L'Estrange . A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the...

In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...

Makin proposes a curriculum which blends tradition with innovation. In arguing that it is more important to know things, than to get words and that languages (the staple of current male education) are subservient to...

Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions...

The preface also formulates the idea—which was to permeate MR 's writing for the young, and which is enforced here by quotations from Samuel Rogers (on the title-page) and Francis Bacon (in the text)—of the...

The title-page quotes Francis Bacon and Joseph Addison .

The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know). It portrays the widow Mrs...