John Milton

CH heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther...

The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch , Shakespeare , Milton , and Germaine de Staël . FH

The title-page quotes Milton 's Paradise Lost on conscience as the guide within. The heroines named in the title are sisters: Clara Welford née Gower is already unhappily married to a rake and gambler...

FRH was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L.

The title-page quotes Milton and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare or Byron or attributed only...

Siddons was also an author: she published The Story of Our First Parents, Selected from Paradise Lost: For the Use of Young Persons, 1822 (to make Milton accessible for her children), and left unpublished...

This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson 's Ossian on the title-page and Robert Blair (The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare and Milton for the succeeding volumes. It opens...

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...

JH 's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is...

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...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

She attributed her power of language and ability for composition to reading the works of good authors, and modelling her style on theirs. She remembered reading the Bible and children's half-penny books before she...

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...

The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate. Cromwell , Lord Protector, appears as a character. The Buccaneer, the son of a royalist clergyman and his young...

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio (then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...