William Shakespeare

She met Sarah Fielding at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding , Saunders Welch (the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery . She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...

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

In the first months of 1834 AEB found herself again in ill-health. She lost her sight and was confined to her bedroom, where she amused herself by repeating passages from Shakespere [sic], or inventing plots...

The title-page signals the novel's concern with evil and revenge by quoting Shakespeare'sOthello. The story turns on the efforts of the female villain Hippolita, otherwise known as Rosalie, to exact bloody vengeance for...

This is pure fun, heralded by the note below the cast-list: The Scene to take place wherever one pleases, provided the Costumes are pretty enough. There is only one female character: Sylvette, whom the cast-list...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare , which in the context of BH 's epigraphs to other tales titled from virtues gives him almost scriptural status. This time the heroine is not reflective from the beginning, but...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

Most of the stories concern love, and some make creative use of the lives or works of other authors, like Tolstoy and Daphne Du Maurier . In The Closing DoorRT created a character who...

This novel is set in Cornwall, as well as in a contemporary landscape of violent exclusion, lies, suffering. Its protagonist, Sophia, dwells on these things in her mind, while her activist sister, Iris, has...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, Oh serpent heart . . . . Though slightly schematic in plan, the novel features lively and winning pictures of family life. The marriages made by...

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...

Although Shakespeare 's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier

Its title-page quotes from Akenside , but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare , several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross 's...

The play's impulsive young protagonist, Dorothy Archibald, opposes her parents' wishes by falling in love with a bank clerk who plays the violin. Critic Rudolf Weiss has noted that the play is full of echoes...

These letters show her to be a rewarding, informal, up-to-the-minute literary critic. She kept remarkably up to date on the topic of women's writing, showing herself consistently receptive to new styles and new ideas. She...