William Shakespeare

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...

Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare —the highest position accorded to...

In further Ladies Companion competitions the same year, FT went on to win joint second prize for her essay on Emily Brontë (which, again, the magazine printed) and another first prize for her essay on...

Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in...

MC took her own work extremely seriously, seeing herself as the Shakespeare of her age and genre. Her status as an unprecedented best-seller brought both celebration and derision, just as her anti-suffrage views, which...

When she wrote this book, MKthought it was pure Shakespeare . Well, not Shakespeare exactly—more Dornford Yates .

Just before her elder daughter's first birthday, SH moved with her family from Stratford to Oxford, where her husband was appointed editor of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare .

In Stratford, MC became known as an eccentric. Her forceful character and her self-proclaimed guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory and birthplace offended many townspeople. She was a strong critic of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ...

TH 's earliest poems, written in London, reflect the influence of Shakespeare and George Meredith on one hand, and on the other a fierce and individual concern with words, which he pushes to...

The frontispiece shows a woman sitting beside a well with an empty bucket. The caption, in Latin, indicates that she has despaired of finding Truth, which proverbially lies at the bottom of a well. Many...

Whereas the ballad-opera (based on Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew) was misogynist, as its title suggests, LP 's prologue was vehemently pro-woman.

These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'...

The arborist re-reads Oliver Twist alongside their partner's lectures and urges the partner to consider discussing the musical form of the novel (a request accommodated, as the academic threads it in alongside Auld Lang Syne...

After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...

EH enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison...