William Shakespeare

She was educated at home under the influence of a father interested in music and classical scholarship. As a child she was noted for her prodigious memory and active imagination, and knew much of Shakespeare

This is the first of Woolf's a London novels, and is set unambiguously in the recent past, in the period of the suffrage struggle before the first world war. It is a story of courtship...

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

Attached to Septimus is a different cluster of characters that includes his anxious young Italian wife and his doctors, the bluff Dr Holmes, who tells him to pull himself together, and the dogmatic and unfeeling...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare on the marriage of true minds. This novel explores various motives for marriage and traces the experience of a group of married couples. It begins with the five Miss Phipson sisters...

The Critical Review, commenting on Poems, on Various Subjects together with the fourth edition of Yearsley's earlier collection, summarised her case against Hannah More and showed considerable sympathy with her: Surely a mother had...

The full title was The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript. It was published by Robinson in four volumes—though it is, as the full title implies, incomplete. They...

The title-page mentions (besides her name) her authorship of the novel Rose-Mount Castle, and quotes the passage from Shakespeare 's Hamlet about Ophelia's death. Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson included six sonnets from...

The earlier Adelaide and Antonine, whose lovers take refuge from the French Revolution in England, is balanced by Agnes, or The Wanderer, whose protagonist (another Revolution victim) is ordered by her doomed husband...

MJY 's novel is set in eleventh-century Scotland, a couple of generations after the time of Shakespeare 's Macbeth. Donalda, also known as the Flower of Yarrow, suspects that the mystery of her...