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English Language First Woman
1,347 words[... ] a Devil on't the Woman damns the Poet. -- Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was not the first woman writer; neither was she the only woman writer of her day. But Aphra Behn holds the singular distinction of being the first professional woman writer in the English language. That's right, ladies -- Aphra Behn was the first woman writer who did it for money. It was a natural choice for this young woman, a recent spy for the crown and a widow at the age of 26, t...
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Nineteenth Century Lord Byron
1,292 wordsEvery Romanticist is heavily indebted to Pickering & Chatto for their publication of a series of valuable sets of Romantic texts. From the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (published in 1989), to the Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (published in May 1996), and continuing with forthcoming editions of Hazlitt's and De Quincey's Selected Works, Pickering & Chatto continues to foster the study of Romantic writers with excellent scholarly editions. Under the general editorship of John Mullan, P...
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One Of America Sister Lavinia
1,478 words'Best Things dwell out of Sight'; (# 998) describes one of America's greatest poets. She dweller out of sight for most of her life and her poems, with the exception of seven published anonymously, remained out of sight until well after her death. Many literary scholars have attempted a biography on this mysterious woman and poet and yet none are conclusive. Dickinson remains an enigma even today but biographical speculation allows us to analyze some of her poetry even though we may be completely...
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Lost Years Court Life
851 wordsShakespeare may have made his way to London with this acting troupe, eventually settling there as a playwright and theatre-owner. Allen could well have hired Shakespeare as an actor in London. Though plausible, these theories have been heavily disputed, not least because there is nothing other than the Houston will to connect Shakespeare with Lancashire. For centuries biographers have been puzzled as to how he acquired such a detailed knowledge of the law of his day, and there has been much spec...
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Shakespeare Life Lost Years
706 wordsWilliam Shakespeare may well have been the greatest man England has ever produced, but he is also one of the most elusive. Virtually everything known of the facts of his life seem to belie the transcendent genius of his plays and poems. His parents were illiterate; he grew up in a small provincial town in which lived no more than a handful of educated men. His schooling ended at thirteen. There is no evidence that he owned a book. No manuscript definitely known to be by him survives. There are o...
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Stories And Poems Rudyard Kipling
1,570 wordsTo a whole generation, homesickness was reversed by inoculation with Kipling's magic, said Carrington. Though many of Kiplings works really conveyed some authoritarian ideas, but he was a great artist and much of his writings were still sometimes rather misinterpreted. Only additional knowledge of Kiplings life would allow the reader deeply understand his stories, because inside them he included just enough about the life to let a reader understand them. Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born ion Decem...
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Harold Bloom Shakespeare Plays
2,608 wordsThe speculation about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays has been going forward for nearly 200 years, and many academic theorists say that it does not matter who supplies the texts to the laboratories of critical deconstruction. Harold Bloom, by all odds the most appreciative of our Shakespearean scholars, suggests that too full a knowledge of the playwrights life might cast a pall on the prodigy of his genius. It is enough that the plays exist, spells of light or falls of gentle rain, and, b...
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