William Shakespeare

At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare 's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you...

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

PB published an autobiographical novel about the writer's metier, Noble in Reason (whose title quotes from one of Hamlet 's soliloquies).

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

Carl Van Vechten edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS 's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce , Eliot , and...

EAR published Summer's Lease, a novel whose epigraph comes from the Shakespeare sonnet (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) which contains the words of its title.

That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen 's Plays of Shakespeare & Chapman in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of...

MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...

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.

The volume contains 267 of the more than one thousand extant letters between Bussy and Gide, translated from French into English. The first volume of their Correspondance had been published in Paris in 1980. In...

CS published Burbage and Shakespeare 's Stage, a biography of James Burbage.

MPD first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of...

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.