William Shakespeare

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...

H. D. wrote the first part of her tribute published four years later as By Avon River; this part, concerned with Shakespeare , is a poem entitled Good Frend (the opening words on the...

JJ 's playThe Nightingale and not the Lark (titled with a quotation from Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet) was published at London by Samuel French .

When she was nine or ten years old, Geogiana Leveson-Gower (later GF ) began to write scraps of French verses. Around this time she also attempted a tragedy, in imitation of William Shakespeare ...

Longman published BH 's Beatrice, a Tale Founded on Facts, in an edition of 500 copies, with Shakespeare quotations on its title-page.

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.

IDH published her first novel, Not Easily Jealous (whose title comes from one of the hero's final speeches in Shakespeare 's Othello).

TB published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith . The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.

H. D. published By Avon River: the Avon is the one flowing through Stratford, and the book celebrates the Shakespeare an moment in literature.

MBL 's From the Vasty Deep is a thriller titled from the boast of Shakespeare 's Glendower about his power to summon spirits, and published by November the same year. It takes for its protagonist...

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...

It was published by J. Harris , with a quotation from Shakespeare on the title-page, and proved one of BH 's most successful titles, in France and the USA as well as in England.

ENB dedicated this work, with permission, to the Duke of York ; it had more than a hundred subscribers, including such Tory grandees as Henry Addington , the current Prime Minister. It does not read...

GG published a study of Anne or Ann Hathaway which she entitled Shakespeare 's Wife.

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...