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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Material Conditions of Writing Ngaio Marsh
In 1946 Caxton Press published NM 's little book A Play Toward, the writing of which was sandwiched between productions of A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare and Henry V, a practical handbook for actors and producers.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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Material Conditions of Writing Iris Murdoch
Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...
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 Fanny Kemble
FK , not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre debut as Shakespeare 's Juliet, saving her father 's company from bankruptcy.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
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 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 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 Fanny Kemble
At Highgate Institute, FK gave a formal reading of Shakespeare ; she abandoned acting altogether this month to make her living exclusively through readings.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
216
Occupation Flora Macdonald Mayor
She worked briefly with the Ben Greet Players after finishing her degree,
Hill, Susan, and Flora Macdonald Mayor. The Third Miss Symons, Virago, 1980, p. n.p.
prelims
taking small roles in various Shakespearean plays which the company was known for performing on tour in picturesque outdoor settings. At times...
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.
139
Occupation Ngaio Marsh
She also returned (from September 1939) to producing plays,
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
85
from which proceeds went towards the war effort. In 1943 she began work with the Canterbury University College Drama Society in the Little Theatre, Christchurch...

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