John Milton

Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante 's Paradiso had changed her life. Her friend Rev P. H. Wicksteed reported that she found Milton 's Comus an intense and enduring delight.

As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that...

Nor was this AS 's only opportunity to marry. In 1742 she was approached with an ardent love-letter (likening her to Milton 's Eve as she first strikes love into the heart of Adam) by...

Hester's father, James Ley , was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of...

LHP 's elder sister Margaret (later, by marriage, Margaret Hobson ) had the distinction of being the recipient or dedicatee of Milton 's sonnet in praise of her father. Another sister, Dionysia, married the son...

The wedding was sumptuous and the bride's marriage portion was £6,000. It seems that after her wedding the bride, now My sister Brackley, was too young to be bedded, and so remained...

KP 's maternal grandfather, Daniel Oxenbridge , was a physician with an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her uncle John Oxenbridge was a friend of Milton and Marvell .

One of these night-school students later emigrated to work for a business firm in the USA. Of all AK 's students, rich or poor, she was the one who loved learning most...

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Selected from Paradise Lost: For the Use of Young Persons, 1822 (to make Milton accessible for her children), and left unpublished...

Margaretta married, against her father's wishes, a French Jacobin doctor; the marriage turned out unhappy. Besides her posthumous edition of her mother's works, she published a blank-verse tragedy, Belisarius, and poems including one on...

The most important friends of the young Anne MacVicar were Catalina Schuyler (whom she calls Madame, and with whom her first bond was a shared love of Milton ) and the little girl Catalina...

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...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

In metre and general tone it remembers Milton 's L'Allegro.

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...