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Dedications | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
published in two volumes Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical, later renamed Shakespeare
's Heroines; it was dedicated to Fanny Kemble
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. 237 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Dedications | Christabel Coleridge | This small-size book has an ornamental cover and title-page, both printed in black and red on white. CC
dedicates it, with a quotation offering flowers, from Shakespeare
's The Winter's Tale, to J. F... |
death | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Reportedly, during the earliest stages of her illness, she was found resting on the sofa and reading Shakespeare
. Life is worth living, she told her family, as long as there is King Lear to... |
death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
Characters | Elizabeth B. Lester | EBL
gives a different interpretation to Mrs Ross's phrase the balance of comfort, balancing (here and in later novels) the single against the married life. The title-page quotes five prose maxims from one Harris... |
Characters | Ivy Compton-Burnett | In A Heritage and its History an elderly uncle marries a young girl, his nephew seduces her and the son of their union later wishes to marry the nephew's legitimate daughter. British Book News. British Council. (1959): 747 |
Birth | Ngaio Marsh | NM
was born the only child of New Zealand-born Rose Seager Marsh and British-born Henry Edmond Marsh, in a modest, rented house in Fendalton, a suburb of Christchurch. Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus. 8 McDorman, Kathryne Slate. Ngaio Marsh. Twayne. xiii, 4 It did not... |
Birth | Viola Tree | Her father, the famous actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, named her after the Viola of Shakespeare
's Twelfth Night (though he almost named her Rosalind, for As You Like It). At her birth... |
Anthologization | Viola Meynell | |
Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | Germaine Greer
's Poems for Gardeners, 2003, includes several of the sensuous little 2-stanza poems that are Shapcott's version of Rainer Maria Rilke
's Les Roses, and printed in her Tender Taxes... |
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