William Shakespeare

The publishers were Grant and Griffith , successors to John Harris . Again the title-page quotes Shakespeare . Again BH prophesied wrongly that this would be her last book (because of age and infirmity)...

KOB 's first published novel, Without My Cloak, at once established both her public profile and her characteristic subject-matter.

This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen novels (by Joan Aiken , Emma Tennant , and many others) but also the...

GG 's doctoral thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, set out to demonstrate that the lovers' relationships portrayed in these stylised plays are deeply imagined, not merely conventional.

EI published brief prefaces for a prestigious collection of play-texts: The British Theatre, in 25 volumes of five plays each, Shakespeare heading the list.

While struggling to finish this work, SHB called it my own eternal rubbish and my long plague. By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...

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...

TB published Rehearsal for Death, a murder mystery in which several of the characters are actors, and Shakespeare is constantly quoted.

John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .

That same year MEC composed A Clever Woman, a poem detailing its female speaker's heartbreak upon realizing that her intellect has made her beloved view her as if she were a platonic male companion...

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

DLS 's third Harriet Vane detective novel, Gaudy Night, was published; its unusual combination of feminism and romance has made it probably her best-known book.

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.

From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...

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.