Algernon Charles Swinburne

Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Other titles in this volume...

The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...

As editor of The Burlington, HM recruited authors such as Edward Aveling , A. C. Swinburne , and Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde . She contributed serial novels, short stories and editorial articles herself. She...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.

As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...

EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .

In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...

The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti and Swinburne places...

By 17 August 1858 AO was part of a large party staying at Wallington, the house belonging to Swinburne 's patron, Lady Pauline Trevelyan . During this stay, Ogle and Swinburne seem to have established a friendship.

As Marsh puts it, this deeply transgressive act has since then been a symbol of religious, poetic and personal violation.