Geoffrey Chaucer

ES balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, in the reign of Edward III . Her preface...

Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer and more recently by Harriet Lee and her sister ). AS 's pilgrims who...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning

Believing strongly that no writer in English can be ignorant of English literature, JW told an interviewer that she reads or re-reads for about five hours a day, choosing sometiimes obscure authors from Chaucer to...

The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found this method of compiling stories (the method of Boccaccio , Marguerite de Navarre , and Chaucer ) effective for stringing together a number of diverse tales told...

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

GB 's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used...

Between then and 1898 it produced fifty-three books. WM 's The Story of the Glittering Plain (April 1891) was the first. The fortieth was the famous Chaucer (1896) containing eighty-seven wood-cuts by Edward Burne-Jones ...

The acclaim that Petrarch won in his lifetime shifted smoothly into a high reputation after his death. The first English author to refer to him was Chaucer . He was a vital inspiration to...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

WC is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look...

Christine de Pisan 's Proverbes moraulx, written in about 1400 for the education of her son, were reprinted in Richard Pynson 's edition of Chaucer as The Morall proverbes of Christyne.

In 1924 Frederic and Bertha Goudy printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press , using the very hand press that William Morris had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer .

Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...