William Shakespeare

She also left large watercolour drawings illustrating the Seven Ages of Man in Shakespeare 's As You Like It, and sketchbooks, many of them filled with Italian scenes.

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...

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...

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).

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

FET published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White.

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

GB published her fourth travel book, Amurath to Amurath, which she copiously illustrated with her own photographs, according to a recent biographer.

AMH published her novel Midsummer Eve: A Fairy Tale of Love, bearing the date 1848.

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.

When she was nine or ten years old, Geogiana Leveson-Gower (later GF ) began to write scraps of French verses. Around this time she also attempted a tragedy, in imitation of William Shakespeare ...