William Shakespeare

Many poems here are about the Welsh countryside, or are based on personal memories. Along with her foremothers, GC salutes other influences in LLŷr, titled from the Welsh name of the ancient British King...

In the opening scene a woman psychiatrist, Dr Hildegard Wolf, is consulted by a man claiming to be the famously missing Lord Lucan .

But the most interesting feature of Midnight Weddings is the discussion of novels and novel-writing with which it opens. Meeke defends the function of novels (which, of course, must offer a good moral) and the...

This is the first of Woolf's a London novels, and is set unambiguously in the recent past, in the period of the suffrage struggle before the first world war. It is a story of courtship...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare on the divinity that shapes our ends. EST 's preface (dated at Chaldon on 25 June) challenges the current prejudice against novels. She argues that the novel deserves some...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

The title-page quotes Milton and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare or Byron or attributed only...

LL thoroughly enjoyed working on this production, though she admits that it was a bit everything-but-the kitchen-sink on sexual politics. The play, which she describes as a daft Midsummer Musical comedy, brings elements...

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...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

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...

Her editors call her a forerunner of Frances Trollope in her American critique, though her attitudes are shaped by reactionary political views in a way that Trollope's are not. Her reports are more...

The family attends the funeral of Mirabeau ; they are still in France at the onset of the dreadful events of September 1793: the beginning of the Terror. The medallion is...

The novel takes place in the ugly town of Brombridge, whose industrial character is mentioned, but only fleetingly explored. Sellcuts', the town's music hall, burns down in mysterious circumstances. The manager, the dashing Paul...

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...