John Milton

Volume three opens with a mock trial: the Crawleys hope to get innocent men (including the hero) condemned for insurrection; the English or Anglicised Irish aristocrats are flightily amused at performing a trial scene. The...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

Her own essay here is Obscure and Giddy Sects: Milton and the Scandal of Divorce.

This edition brings together the duchess's work with that of others including Burns . OCLC records only a single extant copy, at the University of British Columbia . Saint Gothard would certainly have appeared in...

She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More 's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England ) drew from...

The claim of the preface that PW wrote for her own amusement, without thought of publication, and was now yielding to the persuasions of generous friends, may be taken with a grain of salt. She...

AM 's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mistress Milton. Framed as a journal kept by the poet John Milton 's first wife, it remains her best-known work.

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...

This bore both her birth and married names (Mrs. Laurence Cowen) and sold for one shilling, dedicated to the Members of the London Stock Exchange . In an introduction she mentions the libel...

The title in full is An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, In the History of the Widow Placid, and Her Daughter Rachel. HC 's title does not mean that she sought to...

Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...

AH published another novel, Eyeless in Gaza, titled with a quotation in which the hero of Milton 's Samson Agonistes laments his enslaved condition.

MW published what is probably her best-known work, her final completed novel, Precious Bane (titled from Milton 's name for gold—part of the natural resources of Hell—in Paradise Lost).

EF published with Sinclair-Stevenson a novel entitled The Tree of Knowledge, centred on the longest-surviving daughter of the poet Milton .