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Textual Production | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden
's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller
's Batheaston Vase... |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare
's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you... |
Textual Production | Malorie Blackman | MB
published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean
reference (well-suited to the centenary year... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
collected another volume of her articles to publish as Shakespeare
's Environment. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 672 (3 December 1914): 536 |
Textual Production | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
issued the first novel of a trilogy which it took her until 1949 to complete: Too Dear for My Possessing, titled from a Shakespearean
sonnet. Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne. 193 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Edna Lyall | Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett
. Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood. 21 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | In December 1986 FA
published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer
, historical wife of Harry Percy
, heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare
's Hotspur). These poems were... |
Textual Production | Eliza Parsons | Several sources, both early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century, attribute this novel to Mrs [Elizabeth] Meeke
, even though the publisher, place of publication, and title-page mention of previous works all firmly tie it to EP |
Textual Production | Ethel Savi | ES
published her first novel, The Reproof of Chance (whose title comes from a speech by Nestor in Shakespeare
's Troilus and Cressida). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 163 |
Textual Production | Sarah Williams | The book was published by Strahan and Co.
, with a dedication by SW
to her parents: To R. and L. W., Mother on Earth and Father in Heaven These With Loving Thanks for all... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | Four hundred years after Shakespeare
's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC
contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a... |
Textual Production | Monica Furlong | MF
titled her single book of poetry God's a Good Man, an assertion made by Shakespeare
's Dogberry which she finds absurd but moving. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
published Shakespeare
's Industry. |
Textual Production | Hannah Lynch | The English print-run of the Echegaray translation was 400 copies. Lynch's solid, 30-page introduction, in part reprinted from the Contemporary Review, makes no attempt at boosting her subject. She compares Echegaray
in his various... |
Textual Production | Grace Aguilar | GA
's domestic novel Woman's Friendship was issued posthumously. She had passionately defended her choice of topic by citing the authority of Shakespeare
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Timeline
7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...
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7 June 1810
William Charles Macready
(son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare
an roles.
August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...
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August 1811
Francis Jeffrey
wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare
outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...
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1818
William Hazlitt
published A View of the English Stage.
By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...
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By April 1818
Thomas Bowdler
published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler
.
1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...
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1835
Helen Faucit
made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden
Theatre, aged eighteen.
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
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1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
1864: Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical...
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1864
Henry George Bohn
published A Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare.
1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...
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1870
Artist Richard Doyle
published, with a poem by William Allingham
, a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
By 12 June 1880: Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first...
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By 12 June 1880
Irish writer Nina Kennard
published the first of her rather wooden novels, There's Rue for You.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...
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1885
Actress Helen Faucit
(who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare
's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...
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1893
Vale Press
was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts
; its first two books were published by John Lane
.
6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...
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6 June 1904
A. H. Bullen
founded the Shakespeare Head Press
at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare
bought in 1597.
1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...
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1906
Tolstoy
on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy
by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw
), was published.
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
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February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...
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19 May 1908
A campaign to establish a National Theatre
began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre
, London.
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