Francis Bacon

In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...

The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon , Virgil , and Sir Roger L'Estrange . A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the...

Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN 's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway...

A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result...

Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...

She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Her post involved a week of constant waiting on the Princess followed by some...

The first study of VW was that of Winifred Holtby in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW during their student days have included Mary Lavin and Michèle Barrett . In 1992...

Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG called this the happiest house we have had. Three years later she suddenly moved again; she missed London, and felt her elder...

This first dialogue concerned the Baconian controversy. CS 's father was given to harping on his belief that Sir Francis Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare . This is the position taken by Smedley's Victorian...

Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch

Hatchways is one of ES 's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives....

The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. The body...

SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, whether in religion, politics...

The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean.

It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson 's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau , although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her.HM