William Shakespeare

She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...

TH 's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, as the author of Desperate Remedies, was in a different style: a love-story whose village setting is pastorally depicted, as the title from Shakespeare suggests.

At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare 's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you...

MS published Pictures and Ballads of London Life, illustrated with twelve coloured pictures by J. M. Kronheim .

Dear Brutus, another fantasy play by SJMB , opened at Wyndham's Theatre . Its title quotation, from Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, says that men themselves, not fate, are to blame for their shortcomings.

This has her preface replying to hostile criticism of her for querulous egotism, and for renewing her criticisms of the Smith trustees. She also admits, this time, her economic motive. The number of...

MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...

The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...

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...

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.

Four hundred years after Shakespeare 's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a...

PHJ issued the first novel of a trilogy which it took her until 1949 to complete: Too Dear for My Possessing, titled from a Shakespearean sonnet.

Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett . In the year before...

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

AC 's occasional writings include a serious self-examination in rhythmical prose entitled The Character of Mrs C—n by Herself, which begins: Born with too much sensibility to enjoy ease, / With high ideas of...