William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1856. An oval frame is painted round Shakespeare, who looks inscrutably at the viewer, with a bald forehead, moustache and small beard, wearing a black coat with white collar and a hoop earring in his left ear.

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Material Conditions of Writing Flora Thompson
FT had grown up reading poetry and wishing to be a poet. For years this was the direction of her deepest literary aspirations, in which Ronald Campbell MacFie helped and encouraged her. Stressful periods in...
Material Conditions of Writing Willa Cather
At the beginning of her undergraduate career, in 1891, she published two successive essays in the Nebraska State Journal: first Concerning Thomas Carlyle, then Shakespeare and Hamlet. Still as an undergraduate, she...
names Rose Allatini
  • BirthName: Rose Laure Allatini
  • Nickname: Viola
    Her husband used this name for her in his initiate books. Its Shakespearean origin suggests connotations of romance, courage, and cross-dressing.
    Fuller, Jean Overton. Cyril Scott and a Hidden School: Towards the Peeling of an Onion. Theosophical History, 1998.
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  • Married: Scott
    RA published one book, White...
names Joanna Baillie
Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...
names Fay Weldon
  • BirthName: Franklin Birkinshaw
    FW 's mother invented her name for reasons of numerology: Franklin Birkinshaw produced the same numerical total as William Shakespeare. She was expecting a boy, and wanted to name him after...
names Anna Jane Vardill
  • BirthName: Anna Jane Vardill
  • Nickname: Variella
    De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.
    Variella was also the name of a character in John Till Allingham 's 1805 play The Weathercock, who is described by Peter Cochran as a shape-changing, disguise-addicted girl...
Occupation Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...
Occupation Charlotte Stopes
CS founded a Discussion Society for Ladies as well as a Shakespeare Reading Society , lecturing occasionally on topics relevant to both women and Shakespeare . She was initially a member of the New Shakespeare Society
Occupation P. L. Travers
Instead of taking up her university scholarship, PLT went to work. First Aunt Ellie wangled her a secretarial job for which she had to fake competence in maths. Then she managed to get permission to...
Occupation Mary Robinson
MR caught the eye of the young Prince of Wales as she acted Perdita in a royal command performance of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale; she was twenty-two (or twenty-three) to his seventeen.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
101
Nathan, Alix. “Mistaken or Misled? Mary Robinson’s Birth Date”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2002, pp. 139-42.
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Occupation Sarah Flower Adams
In addition to writing hymns, SFA attempted a stage career: she aimed to develop both musical and dramatic skills. Eliza Bridell Fox notes that the aspiring performer possessed a rich contralto voice.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 4
Her...
Occupation Leah Sumbel
From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS ) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in...
Occupation Anne Damer
In 2014 an exhibition of Damer's work in marble, terracotta and bronze was shown at Strawberry Hill. Also on display were her anatomy sketch-book, her prompt copies of plays performed at Richmond House and...
Occupation Mary Robinson
Though very nervous, she felt a new sensation
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
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of emulation or ambition. She lists all the parts she played in the 1777-8 season (often describing her costumes in detail). Her greatest successes were in...
Occupation Eliza Haywood
She appeared in Thomas Shadwell 's adaptation of Shakespeare 's Timon of Athens. She seems to have had some provincial acting experience too, and is recorded on stage at Nottingham on 23 April 1717...

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