William Shakespeare

PA kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train...

Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love. She also enjoyed and respected...

When at seven she moved from Stamps to St Louis and attended Toussaint L'Ouverture High School, Marguerite found the teachers more formal but the students comparatively backward. In a year there she felt she learned...

Her role in the Porgy and Bess touring company was MA 's passport to travel the world. In Montreal she felt able for the first time in her life to look freely at white people...

MA was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. She then attended various schools, except for a period of learning at home with a governess after she had...

During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...

GA 's domestic novel Woman's Friendship was issued posthumously. She had passionately defended her choice of topic by citing the authority of Shakespeare .

GA defends her central subject (which eclipses the requisite romances in the plot) in these terms: if Shakspeare scorned not to picture the sweet influence of female friendship shall women pass it by as a...

In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...

In addition to writing hymns, SFA attempted a stage career: she aimed to develop both musical and dramatic skills. Eliza Bridell Fox notes that the aspiring performer possessed a rich contralto voice. Her...