William Shakespeare

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

Southampton turns out to be too bashful to speak in parliament, and also too weak to withstand the mockery of rakish friends for his fidelity to his wife. He suffers agony of conscience over his...

At thirteen, profoundly affected by a Saturday matinee of John McGrath 's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and by the idea that theatre can change people's lives, she decided to be a playwright.

This title-page quotes from William Falconer and the Latin poet Martial . The novel opens on the usually flighty Philippa Egerton contemplating her imminent marriage to Sir Thomas Clervaux, whose chief talent is for dancing...

RG found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare 's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis thought the story...

As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in...

Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg...

The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare , which in the context of BH 's epigraphs to other tales titled from virtues gives him almost scriptural status. This time the heroine is not reflective from the beginning, but...

This was a new influence added to those of the Victorian novelists (especially the women), Shakespeare , and Jane Austen , whom she admired extravagantly (Even her dull scraps are music to me)...

Valisneria tells the story of a young couple who decide, since they have abounding wealth and happiness in each other, they will resign the company of all other society. After a time however, the two...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, Oh serpent heart . . . . Though slightly schematic in plan, the novel features lively and winning pictures of family life. The marriages made by...

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...