William Shakespeare

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...

TB published an account of her Asian journey of two years before, entitled (quoting Shakespeare 's Antony) In the East My Pleasure Lies.

RR 's To Fear a Painted Devil, her second published novel and the first of her psychological thrillers, adapted for its title a line from Shakespeare 's Macbeth.

John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .

She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare 's famously irresolute hero, and...

CS published Shakespeare 's Family, which is largely a record of the poet's ancestors and descendants.

That same year MEC composed A Clever Woman, a poem detailing its female speaker's heartbreak upon realizing that her intellect has made her beloved view her as if she were a platonic male companion...

While struggling to finish this work, SHB called it my own eternal rubbish and my long plague. By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...

The full title was The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript. It was published by Robinson in four volumes—though it is, as the full title implies, incomplete. They...

The title-page mentions (besides her name) her authorship of the novel Rose-Mount Castle, and quotes the passage from Shakespeare 's Hamlet about Ophelia's death. Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson included six sonnets from...

EG published a didactic and critical work, The Morality of Shakespeare 's Drama Illustrated.

While staying with John Rich in London (for the second time) in 1761, ML not only studied stagecraft to benefit her own writing, but was kept busy doing writing jobs he suggested. Aware of her...

The background to this piece was that Reeves McCullers , divorced husband of Carson, received a commission in the US Army, and wrote her a dignified and heartfelt letter of apology and conciliation, which reminded...