William Shakespeare

With books hard to come by, RG read and re-read those she had, often sent her by relatives and often new publications. She called Austenexactly what I need and likened herself to Emma.

As to the drama, QV thought the works of William Shakespeare to be very coarse. She recommended Faust and French plays, about which she said that [o]ne's dislike to a nation need not...

While at school, PHJ was a regular attender in the sixpenny gallery of the Old Vic Theatre , then run by Lilian Baylis .

She was a regular member of the audience at Shakespeare performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre .

EH was a frequent participant in amateur dramatic readings. She often read the works of Robert Browning . Shakespeare , perhaps owing to her childhood deprivation, was also a particular favourite. She was praised as...

Though not fond of other forms of exercise, she became a fearless rider and an excellent whip—that is, a driver of horses in harness. She was a talented amateur actress, most memorable...

At some time after 1736 EB became a member of the Shakespeare's Ladies Club , whose activities included pressuring the theatres to stage more Shakespeare plays.

This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...

Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...

Margaret Lewis judged these lectures do not deserve the oblivion into which they have fallen, since they sparkle with insight, humour and a genuine understanding of Shakespeare and his interpreters, and exhibit erudition lightly worn.

The audience was huge: the theatre took in £234, nine shillings, one of the biggest takes of the month. But it included a cabal who hissed and catcalled, being either provoked by the playwright's gender...

Terry Eagleton , reviewing The Little Red Chairs for the London Review of Books, pointed out the resemblance between Dragan and the actual, historical Radovan KaradŽić. He noted too the different linguistic registers...

Pronouncements about gender, which permeated the Victorian reception of poetry (or of poetry by women) are particularly inescapable in the reception of Aurora Leigh, which directly satirised the criticism of women writers and other...

The Critical Review, commenting on Poems, on Various Subjects together with the fourth edition of Yearsley's earlier collection, summarised her case against Hannah More and showed considerable sympathy with her: Surely a mother had...

Mary referred to her work as poor little baby-stories, in the context of her own inability (she said in a letter) to write about anything else except her current work. (She reported Charles...