William Shakespeare

However, the intense jealousy that had early affected the friendship persisted. Around 1846 GJ began her friendship with the American actress Charlotte Cushman , who was then visiting Manchester. Much to the frustration of...

At their fifth meeting he asked her to marry him. She was not in love. She agonised about her love for Bevil; she wrote with tears to consult Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . He responded...

They were familiar with one another's work before they met. In a 1921 review of Smyth's memoirs, Woolf wrote that ESlooks the militant, working, professional woman—the woman who had shocked the country by jumping...

Of her married life, JH recollected that she then stole her reading hours from sleep, and that many an hour have I spent in reading, holding the book in one hand, and nursing an infant...

AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.

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 ...

The possibility of marriage was made more feasible by the deaths of her parents (not because they opposed the match but because she felt responsible for their care). The couple were engaged by early 1823...

AW probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth , a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare 's father) in the glove trade.

They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France (in succession to Ernest Renan

The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt 's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare 's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed...

Her sister Maria , about twelve years her elder, wrote some remarkable love-letters and was a model for Shakespeare 's Juliet.

Her father, John Sadler , was a well-to-do druggist and tobacconist who came from Stratford upon Avon. His grandfather was probably at school with Shakespeare , and he himself was connected by marriage with...

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

In a letter to Dorothy Brett , Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves...

At about eighteen AL became mistress to Lord Chamberlain Hunsdon (soldier, courtier, and patron of Shakespeare 's company), who was forty-five years her senior. In this capacity she lived richly.