William Beckford

JW includes some juvenile work in this collection (a poem on Easter and another, written at her mother's request, beginning Thou sweet composer of earth-nurtur'd care, Sweet Poesy!), and a piece reprinted from a...

Italy contains guidebook material (it draws on Romantic works like William Beckford 's Italy), as well as political analysis of the country's restored anciens régimes, and of the dirty work done by the...

CN 's later dramatic ventures, none of them successful, included an adaptation for the stage of Vathek by William Beckford .

The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the...

The title-page of this very rare book goes on: To which is added, a Description of part of the Main Land of Scotland, and of the Isles of Mull, Ulva, Staffa, I-Columbkill...

Shortly after this caper, she entered Byron's rooms, from which he was absent, and wrote in his copy of William Beckford 's Vathek, Remember me! This message quickly became the title of a...

William Lamb worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...

Elizabeth Hervey was the author of six novels published between 1788 and 1814, besides one more, extant in a carefully-bound manuscript, which never reached print. They have something in them of sentiment and something of...

EH 's half-brother, the brilliant but unstable writer and gothicist William Beckford the younger, was about twelve years her junior. In his teens in Switzerland (whose wild mountain landscapes made a deep impression on him)...

By autumn 1789 (only a couple of years after he had entertained her at his beloved, self-designed home) EH 's half-brother, William Beckford , developed suspicions about her loyalty to him. By the following year...

The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney 's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty...

It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...

The History of Ned Evans appeared after William Beckford 's Modern Novel Writing but before his next burlesque novel, Azemia. It does not, however, look like a specific target of Azemia, a satirical...

CG was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton to which Disraeli , Lady Morgan , and Letitia Landon also...

She quotes Byron on the title-page. As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...