William Shakespeare

PB published an autobiographical novel about the writer's metier, Noble in Reason (whose title quotes from one of Hamlet 's soliloquies).

In this work the Leavises argue (radically modifying the view stated in The Great Tradition) that Dickens was an inheritor of Shakespeare and Blake , and a major influence on the formation of the...

She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...

LTS did not produce any more volumes for several years, during which her work as a freelance research assistant perhaps occupied her fully. Finally, in 1879, she issued a new edition of Clement Mansfield Ingleby

A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...

This by no means exhausts the list of EN 's writings for children. The first number of The Enchanted Castle (which is less episodic, perhaps less brilliant, and more socially critical than the Phoenix or...

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

The volume contains 267 of the more than one thousand extant letters between Bussy and Gide, translated from French into English. The first volume of their Correspondance had been published in Paris in 1980. In...

EJH collaborated with Robert Aickman on We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories, titled from the words of Charmian, handmaid to Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.

SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...

PW published her second novel, A Little More than Kin (published in the USA as More than Kin, which somewhat obscures the literary allusion to Shakespeare 's Hamlet).

ES published her first novel, The Reproof of Chance (whose title comes from a speech by Nestor in Shakespeare 's Troilus and Cressida).

Its title-page (as well as bearing a quotation from Shakespeare ) mentions several of her earlier works.

Its title comes from Shakespeare 's As You Like It, whose heroine, Rosalind, admonishes the haughty Phoebe to go down on her knees and thank heaven,fasting, for a good man's love.

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...