William Shakespeare

DLS 's third Harriet Vane detective novel, Gaudy Night, was published; its unusual combination of feminism and romance has made it probably her best-known book.

She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...

TH 's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, as the author of Desperate Remedies, was in a different style: a love-story whose village setting is pastorally depicted, as the title from Shakespeare suggests.

From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...

PHJ issued the first novel of a trilogy which it took her until 1949 to complete: Too Dear for My Possessing, titled from a Shakespearean sonnet.

Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett . In the year before...

The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...

The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare , Byron , Shaw , and Wilde . It was shown on Sunday evenings.

Four hundred years after Shakespeare 's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a...

In a counterblast to Voltaire , EM published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear.

Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it...

The English print-run of the Echegaray translation was 400 copies. Lynch's solid, 30-page introduction, in part reprinted from the Contemporary Review, makes no attempt at boosting her subject. She compares Echegaray in his various...

NM 's final detective novel was posthumously published. The title, Light Thickens, is quoted from a foreboding speech in Shakespeare 's Macbeth and the plot revolves around a production of that play, which is...

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translatingShakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...