Robert Louis Stevenson

The following summer she recovered from this frenzy and set to work, although now both deaf and aphasic, trying to repair her loss of language by the use of dictionaries. A third stroke, however, scattered...

Acquainted with Andrew Lang through her mother 's social circle, VH shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in...

Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...

Probably Larkin's most widely-known poem appeared in this volume. Combining the colloquial with the lapidary, it presents a shockingly terse summary statement about the handing on of emotional pain in families: They fuck you up...

In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville

Its unnamed male protagonist, presented in the third person, is an artist back in London after thirty years away, staying in a flat in Piccadilly borrowed from his writer friend Humphrey Penderry. He and Penderry...

As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe , to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination...

Again this novel could hardly be more different from its predecessor. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson 's Songs of Travel heads it, about the salt-encrusted legacy of seafaring ancestors on the shores of Fife...

The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid and imitated by Chaucer , Robert Louis Stevenson , and others, and popularly called Go, little book...

MS wrote constantly as a schoolgirl. She often wrote poems (more sophisticated than her prose) at night while she minded her disabled grandmother. She says she was destined to poetry by all my mentors.

Critic Elaine Campbell reads EN 's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alec Waugh .

The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, and said it demonstrated MO

Only three years after the appearance of HCJ 's last novel, the young Robert Louis Stevenson wrote dismissively of her work in a memoir of her son appended to two volumes of the latter's literary...

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote admiringly to his old acquaintance: I never see why you lay one touch rather than another, I cannot see why your make your breaks, all your craft is magic and mystery...

Ashton suggests that GE anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl 's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE 's deep knowledge and...