William Shakespeare

At the request of James T. Fields she wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 about a curious house that she saw while house-hunting in Genoa: to her regret the magazine...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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 ...

In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer. Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...

The action, which takes place in a magic forest, fantastically enables second chances which nevertheless fail to be better exploited than the first choices were. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls this the most...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

MD centred her story on a woman whose life is drifting, who has plenty of leisure but no direction. The idea came to her when she herself was bustling around London on her short visits...

This novel is set during the opening production at The Dolphin, a recently derelict and now lovingly restored Victorian theatre beside the Thames in London. The central character, Peregrine or Perry Jay, is a...

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

EN does not come clean here about the complicated sexual and genealogical relationships in her family, but she gives a sensitive account of her own development and attitudes as a writer. It is here that...