John Milton

She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton and William Cowper (as edited by Robert Southey ), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on...

EF 's protagonist covers many topics: she speaks of her female experience (deaths of children in successive generations, anxiety for survivors, living with gendered contempt), her economic experience (the poverty of weavers, like her husband...

Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died...

Twenty-two of the poems are the sister's, thirty-eight the brother's, and three are written by Eliza, a sister-in-law. An Advertisement gallantly suggests that the lady outshines the gentleman. EST 's verse introduction confesses her early...

This followed not long after a review of a book on Milton , which she used as an opportunity to discuss the law on marriage and divorce. In treating Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights...

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...

MJ 's letters cover the period from 1732 to 1748, from the writer's mid twenties till she was just over forty. Like her poems themselves they are full of the business of poetry and authorship...

The villa was famous for a visit made there by the young Milton in 1639 and is still a literary landmark. They stayed first at Sécheron, then at Cologny. In July...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...