William Shakespeare

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

The earlier Adelaide and Antonine, whose lovers take refuge from the French Revolution in England, is balanced by Agnes, or The Wanderer, whose protagonist (another Revolution victim) is ordered by her doomed husband...

The title comes from Mercutio's speech about the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet; MK quotes the opening of this speech on her title-page.

Finding hisprogress in a noble art unjustly barred, he now writes bitterly of the way that intellectual property is downgraded and exploited in contrasted with all real property, which is...

A quotation from Shakespeare 's The Tempest intruces an opening scene of storm and shipwreck on a lonely western coast. The only survivor, a six-month-old baby girl in a cradle, is rescued with a gold...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare and Germaine de Staël . The novel introduces its protagonist, William Milton, with generalisations about different types of people, especially those who refuse, out of pride or laziness, to compete for...

These poems of love and separation have echoes of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning .Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.) opens on the last letter which Thomas wrote to Farjeon from the...

The book is simple and singular in plot and sparse in characters compared with CMW 's first, but here too a central character is pregnant through most of the action. Here too literary references come...

Her address to her husband rejoices that he has never bidden her to stop writing and work (that is do needlework) instead. In this connection she quotes from Lord Denny 's attempt to silence Lady Mary Wroth

This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson 's Ossian on the title-page and Robert Blair (The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare and Milton for the succeeding volumes. It opens...

In Macbeth—False Memory she professed not to be adaptating Shakespeare , but the play features the murder of one businessman by another, followed by a haunting and a quest for revenge, all in an emphatically...

NM based the overpowering Lamprey family on an actual family of old friends who were a presence both in New Zealand and in England: Tahu Rhodes and his wife Helen or Nelly (a peer's daughter)...

ER claims to be merely the editor here of an original source. As she tells it in the preface, while doing research for Owen Tudor she happened on some curious particulars that explained everything she...

A different third-person narrator replaces the somewhat pompous gentleman of An Antidote. The book's subect is the relations between the two Placid women, mother and daughter, and the squire's family, the Bustles (who are...

As a child Mary Meredith (later MW ) wrote stories for her younger brothers and sisters. She first had her writing published after the family moved to Stanton-on-Hine Heath, in the parish magazine.