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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Publishing Mary Lamb
Mary Jane Godwin (whom Charles and Mary Lamb disliked and called privately Bad Baby) published their prose Tales from Shakespear : Designed for the Use of Young Persons, with Charles's name only, though...
Publishing Mary Lamb
In early 1805 it seems, after Charles Lamb had already produced a children's book for the Godwins' new Juvenile Library , Mary Jane Godwin asked ML (who was not known as an author, though she...
Publishing Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB published at Bath an expurgated edition of twenty of Shakespeare 's plays, in four volumes, as The Family Shakespeare.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
By the time she reached twenty, MEC was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare for The Theatre.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, 1910, pp. 1 - 44; various pages.
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Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
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Publishing Jane Gardam
In Spring 2011 JG published in The Author a funny and joyous little piece entitled and good in everything (words which in Shakespeare 's As You Like It follow the aspiration to find sermons in...
Publishing Angela Thirkell
In 1930, once she was back in England, she found she could earn her living by journalism for Punch and the Fortnightly Review. She was attuned to writing by women from an early stage...
Publishing Mary Maria Colling
Some time after 17 March 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green presented Colling with a copy of the plays of Shakespeare (the Bard), having heard that she admired his poetry.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831, pp. 1-85.
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Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC issued in eighteen monthly parts The Complete Concordance to Shakspere.
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.
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
The story's ending led to conflict with Dickens , who apparently wanted to offer readers a more rationalist interpretation of the events narrated. When Gaskell demurred he pulled out all the stops: I have no...
Publishing Caroline Blackwood
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:...
Publishing Pamela Frankau
PF 's agent rejected the first novel she finished after Marriage of Harlequin, which dealt with a playwright she had imagined herself in love with, and which she called (again from Shakespeare 's Hamlet...
Publishing Maria Callcott
MC contributed a six-page letter to a book entitled The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, which illustrates with engravings the famous seven ages passage of As You Like It.
Callcott, Maria, and William Shakespeare. “Introduction”. The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, edited by J. Martin and J. Martin, J. Van Voorst, 1840.
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Publishing L. M. Montgomery
At Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown a few years after this, she wrote an essay on Shakepeare's Portia which was read out at the graduation ceremonies and printed in the Charlottetown Guardian. In...
Publishing Samuel Johnson
SJ published by subscription, again after many delays, his edition of Shakespeare .
Bronson, Bertrand H., and Samuel Johnson. “Introduction”. Johnson on Shakespeare, edited by Arthur Sherbo and Arthur Sherbo, Yale Edition, Yale University Press, 1975, p. xiii - xxxviii.
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Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
Once established as a scholar, MCC staked out a territory as a critic in On Shakespeare 's Individuality in His Characters, a series of articles carried by Sharpe's London Magazine during 1848-51.
Gross, George. “Mary Cowden Clarke, ’The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines’, and the Sex Education of Victorian Women”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1972, pp. 37-58.
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