William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1856. An oval frame is painted round Shakespeare, who looks inscrutably at the viewer, with a bald forehead, moustache and small beard, wearing a black coat with white collar and a hoop earring in his left ear.

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Literary responses Aemilia Lanyer
AL suffered the fate of many early women writers in being not so much discouraged as ignored. Despite the presentation copies, it does not appear that her splendid poem had a wide circulation. When she...
Literary responses Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
SFG 's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
The many editions of CS 's sonnets attest to their popularity. In one she mentions having to get back from friends the original manuscripts of poems which she had not bothered to keep. Her sonnets...
Literary responses Ethel M. Dell
She judged that EMD dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides or Shakespeare ; in an image...
Literary responses Mary Lady Chudleigh
Editor Margaret Ezell notes how several women readers copied MLC 's most celebrated poem, To the Ladies, into irrelevant volumes, which they presumably thought a more secure repository than scraps of paper for a...
Literary responses Ethel M. Dell
In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics.
qtd. in
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
Both William Michael and Christina Rossetti greatly admired this play. William Michael called it the supreme thing amid the work of all British poetesses,
Rossetti, William Michael, and Augusta Webster. “Introductory Note”. Mother and Daughter, Macmillan, 1895, pp. 11-14.
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and again so fine that I hardly discern where its...
Literary responses Anne Bradstreet
This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
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John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
Literary responses Josephine Tey
The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times.
Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Rev. ed., Falcon, 1948.
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It brought its author fame and recognition...
Literary responses Michael Field
Edith and Katharine must have also been extremely pleased with the praise they received from the critics. A review in The Spectator heralded a new voice which is likely to be heard far and wide...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jennings
She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
Literary responses Jane Austen
Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul , in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pronouncements about gender, which permeated the Victorian reception of poetry (or of poetry by women) are particularly inescapable in the reception of Aurora Leigh, which directly satirised the criticism of women writers and other...
Literary responses Enid Blyton
At the end of 2009 Jean Hannah Edelstein enrolled herself in the ranks of ex-admirers and actual denigrators. She related in The Guardian how during her childhood her parents had operated a ban on Blyton...

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