William Shakespeare

JW 's preface invokes Shakespeare , Virgil , Homer , and Sir Walter Scott (she later adds Thomas Percy ) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...

This collection represents a significant departure from AW 's earlier work in its adoption of literary conventions. Peopled with jesters, knights, witches, and shepherdesses, the poems in this volume incorporate historical (Anglo-Saxon and Elizabethan), mythological...

Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier , Alphonse Daudet , Shakespeare , Byron , or Swinburne , she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Macbeth. A vivid, to-the-moment opening introduces a tale of revenge and restored inheritance. Add another fagot [sic] to the fire, and replenish the flask, said the aged Martin to...

A respectful review by Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical praised Williams's calm domestic scenes, her landscapes, and her convincing characters from nature, as well as the feminine sweetness in her style and...

The book was published by Strahan and Co. , with a dedication by SW to her parents: To R. and L. W., Mother on Earth and Father in Heaven These With Loving Thanks for all...

From 1941 to 1943, the Wilsons received into their home sixteen-year-old Audrey Butler , an evacuee from England. They were generous with both their familial warmth and finances. Audrey shared the Wilsons' love of Shakespeare

After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray nonetheless encouraged EW to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW sketched...

The title embraces controversy and makes something witty of her habitual modesty. In her extended argument against the value of creative writing classes, EW maintains that good writers must be self-taught and that the conditions...

HW 's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach...

While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb set out to get her reading Milton , Shakespeare , Byron , theRambler, Virgil

One of JSW 's great-great-grandmothers (on her father's side) was Hannah Pritchard , a celebrated actress and singer. Henrietta seems not to have known that this made her a great-niece of Alicia Tyndal Palmer ...

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...