William Shakespeare

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.

MSC kept up with contemporary publications. She asked her son Astley to send her from London the latest volume of Johnson 's edition of Shakespeare and found the works of Hannah Morea...

AD was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (a particularly frequent sitter on account of her...

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...

MADH , like her daughter, was a keen theatre-goer and attender of concerts. She enjoyed the occasional melodrama, but preferred serious plays, and was delighted to discover that the New YorkShakespearean repertoire was far...

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...

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.

Overall, however, The Gadfly was a success to a degree that not one of ELV 's subsequent novels could achieve. She did not learn about its popularity in Europe, especially in the Soviet Union...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

Her biographer, Katharine Anthony , finds her plays influenced by the classic models of Molière and Shakespeare ; astonishingly confident, if sometimes crass, in their satirical realism; and written with feeling as well as thought.

The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.

The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay 's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it. It did, however, receive several positive...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...