William Shakespeare

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...

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...

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.

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.

FET published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White.

FK published, under her own name, a collection of reviews and essays written over the course of her lifetime as Notes upon Some of Shakespeare 's Plays.

DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).

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

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.

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 ...

JW published a novel titled The Gap in Time. The Winter's Tale Retold: first in the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespearean plot. She dedicated it to the...