William Shakespeare

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...

DL pursued the Shakespeare -becomes-contemporary idea in her first volume of short stories, Ophelia and the Great Idea. It bore the publication date of 1989.

GB published her fourth travel book, Amurath to Amurath, which she copiously illustrated with her own photographs, according to a recent biographer.

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 ...

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.

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

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...

HCJ 's next novel, or pair of novellas, was given different titles for London and for New York publication, and was the first of her works to bear her name (as Mrs. C. Jenkin). The...

DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...

Benger wrote an impromptu poem in the presence of one W. J. S., A Lament: on the Paucity of Information Respecting the Life and Character of Shakespeare—a fitting subject for a biographer.

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.

EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

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...