Maureen E. Mulvihill

The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...

The Restoration user of the name Ephelia was a remarkably assured, forceful, and accomplished poet (as well as a playwright), although she left, outside her single printed collection (1679), only four poems extant: political broadsheets...

She was by all accounts an outstanding courtier, admired not only for her beauty but also for her style and wit (Freda Hast in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography quotes the word for...

Douglas Grant published a life in 1957: Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Late in the twentieth century, interest in her and her work escalated steeply. The first...

St Hilda's College , Oxford, holds a portrait by Mary Beale , the most successful woman artist of her day, which has been thought to represent Behn. Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill discussed (with illustrations)...

The National Portrait Gallery lists twelve portraits of HLP , dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her with her...

Commentary and analysis on her death does not abate. Maureen E. Mulvihill argues in a recent essay that Woolf 's suicide had a larger logic as response to a combination of external factors, apart from...

Sam McCready 's one-woman play entitled Coole Lady was mounted in 2005, with Joan McCready playing AG , by Handcart Ensemble Productions in New York (photos online, with a review for the city's Yeats Society...

MT 's mother, Lady Theodosia (Tighe) Blachford , was an early Irish Methodist. Through her mother's grandfather, the Earl of Darnley, she descended from the first Earl of Clarendon . She had published a...