John Milton

The title piece, A Drama of Exile, is the most ambitious. It visualises the consequences of the biblical Fall from paradise, since, as EBB writes in the preface (where she casts herself, too, as...

This is one of her best-known volumes of stories, in part perhaps because of its involvement with gender issues, with such topics as early sexual development, rigidly demarcated gender roles, misogyny, sexual violence, defiance of...

In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton 's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), with the counter-assertion: It is not for God...

This is the first example in print of HB 's satiric style: heroic couplets which gallop along with perfect control and slashing vituperation. It opens magnificently: Unknowing either, and to both unknown, / An individual...

The title-page has two epigraphs. The first begins with two lines from Milton 's Il Penseroso (perhaps alluding to its musical setting by Handel ), which go on to link the nightingale with Anna...

She refers to the campaign for the vote as a side-effect of a disturbance in the relation of the sexes, of the Paradisaical, or Milton ic, subordination of women. It is in fact the...

In Critical Fragments, on some of the English Poets (seven poets, all male), EH wittily exercises an imitation which is far from flattery. She begins with Milton , who in ponder'ous verse, moves greatly on...

Its womanizing protagonist, Mr Hutton, considers himself the Christ of Ladies (reversing, with what he supposes to be worldly wit, the supposed nickname of Milton as the lady of Christ's). His internal monologue...

Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on...

In addition to quotation from Milton , Pope , and Thomson , this book has a Sterne an flavour, with passages titled from sights (like The Theatre Royal and The Merchants's Court) alternating with...

As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together...

The title-page quotes Milton 's Paradise Lost (There wanted yet the master-work); the preface quotes Samuel Johnson saying that the novelist needs to have first-hand experience of the living world, but that...

The first number, dated 1 December 1824, opens with The Editors to the Reader, in which Watts's three personae introduce themselves as sisters. They are very literary personifications, who possess, respectively, the actual spear...