John Milton

At eight, she produced her first play, The Fairy Cave, in seven acts. The stage direction for the last began, A gorden it is night Enter gardner with spad, and with a gun Jack...

EG's first literary activity came at the age of nine, when she attempted to imitate Milton . As she later put it, I very early discovered a faculty for rhyming scarcely worthy to be dignified...

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...

MJ titled a little book of essays Shepherd's Trade: this title embodies her claim to be an author, but conceals the implications of its original in Milton 's Lycidas, which questions the value...

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).

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...

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

CG 's first book of poetry, Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse, was published at Edinburgh, with a dedication to the dowager Countess of Kinnoull and a quotation from Milton on the title-page.

A second volume of CG 's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost...

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...

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...

RM published her short biography Milton for Duckworth 's Great Lives series.

The title, from the close of Milton 's Paradise Lost, refers to the world as Adam and Eve see it when, driven from Paradise, they must choose their own new home.

This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .

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...