William Shakespeare

Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution

Meanwhile Orlando establishes a relationship of friendship and equality with Viola Cash, a young woman who embodies intelligence, practicality, and activity as well as beauty. She supports improved education for women, and is not afraid...

MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...

CB changed publishers to Heinemann for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare 's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot in The Waste Land:...

MB visited Stratford upon Avon, whose associations with Shakespeareproved a perfect source of inspiration to her.

MB uses an epigraph from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (in Edward FitzGerald 's free translation): The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter—and the bird is on the wing.

At the end of 2009 Jean Hannah Edelstein enrolled herself in the ranks of ex-admirers and actual denigrators. She related in The Guardian how during her childhood her parents had operated a ban on Blyton...

Mary Howitt , a friend of the Smith family, wrote approvingly of Benjamin Leigh Smith's unorthodox methods of childrearing: Objecting to schools he keeps his children at home, and their knowledge is gained by reading...

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

HMB published at Bath an expurgated edition of twenty of Shakespeare 's plays, in four volumes, as The Family Shakespeare.

HMB , who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare inoffensive to delicate ears...

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

MB published To Bed at Noon, the last crime novel she wrote as Joseph Shearing.

That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen 's Plays of Shakespeare & Chapman in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of...

She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...