John Milton

In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer. Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...

The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare

Her narrative, in iambic couplets, was influenced, as most biblical re-tellings were, both by Milton 's Paradise Lost and by Matthew Prior 's Solomon (which elsewhere she praised in verse).

MD wrote for Handel a libretto adapted from Milton 's Paradise Lost; it has not been traced.

The title-page bore her name and a quotation from Milton . This book advertised her novel from nearly thirty years ago.

In a letter she wrote in December 1892, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, she assesses the religious and other opinions she held during a period of her life that was about to close...

MD was a great admirer of Handel and in her letters often mentions attending performances of his music. She wrote of her efforts on the libretto that it has cost me a great deal of...

Haydn had taken with him an anonymous English libretto (based on the book of Genesis, the Psalms, and Milton 's Paradise Lost) when he left England in 1795. From this Gottfried van Swieten

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

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...

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...

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...

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...