William Blake

MB 's family owned a total of thirty-four Blake watercolours, portraits, and sketches, and several of his engravings, which were housed at Salterns. These were a source of poetic inspiration for MB ; she felt...

She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus , St Augustine

While at Leeds University, SJ served as Secretary of the Women's Representative Council of the Student Union, met her future husband Charles Douglas Clarke (also a student), and wrote an undergraduate thesis on Blake ...

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake

They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures

Anne Bradby (later AR ) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams , the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture...

LCL was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan , to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped...

William Hayley helped CS publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at...

Sister Invention is a new name for or new concept of that creative power that has sometimes been called the Muse, which recalls the way St Francis would address non-human beings as brothers. JK writes...

R. B. Kershner, Jr. (a James Joyce scholar) points out that Joyce read The Sorrows of Satan in 1905 and that the novel has a number of elements that [he] adapts to the form and...

Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...

KT stays with Irish mythology in The Fairy Babe, about a mother whose baby has been replaced by fairies with a changeling child. She figures Ireland in the body of the generous Kathleen who...

The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in...