William Shakespeare

GG published a study of Anne or Ann Hathaway which she entitled Shakespeare 's Wife.

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...

IDH published her first novel, Not Easily Jealous (whose title comes from one of the hero's final speeches in Shakespeare 's Othello).

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.

MF titled her single book of poetry God's a Good Man, an assertion made by Shakespeare 's Dogberry which she finds absurd but moving.

MBL 's From the Vasty Deep is a thriller titled from the boast of Shakespeare 's Glendower about his power to summon spirits, and published by November the same year. It takes for its protagonist...

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...

MD 's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland , author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...

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)...

LTS did not produce any more volumes for several years, during which her work as a freelance research assistant perhaps occupied her fully. Finally, in 1879, she issued a new edition of Clement Mansfield Ingleby

FET published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White.

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.

She also left large watercolour drawings illustrating the Seven Ages of Man in Shakespeare 's As You Like It, and sketchbooks, many of them filled with Italian scenes.

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.