William Shakespeare

After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray nonetheless encouraged EW to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW sketched...

She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...

Mary Cowden Clarke published the work for which she is principally remembered, The Girlhood of Shakespeare 's Heroines; in a series of fifteen tales.

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

Knopf Canada published MA 's Hag-Seed, a revisioning of Shakespeare 's The Tempest for the Hogarth Shakespeare series which sets out to re-imagine the plays in novel form.

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

AC published Absent in the Spring, another novel under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, which she had written within three days in July 1943.

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

MCC and her husband began work on a commission from Cassell and Co. for an annotated edition of Shakespeare .

FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

ME 's journals, kept from her youth onwards, often served to write what I want to get rid of. In the mid and later 1930s they break out periodically in a passionate fury of...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

Although she disapproved of The Mill on the Floss, GJ praised George Eliot 's Adam Bede for its genius and also liked Silas Marner for its depictions of human nature, however humbly embodied it...