Here you can find Part 1 and Part 2 For their honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Cross travelled through France and came to Italy. Those countries and places were filled with the memories that Mary Ann had shared with Lewes, but despite the sad recollections, the newlyweds had had moments of relaxation, with Johnny showing great… Read More George Eliot’s Husbands (3)
When Lewes died in 1878 George Eliot decided to legally change her name to Mary Ann Evans Lewes. She was devastated and for months she became a recluse, seeing only her stepson Charles Lewes, and few other people, including John Walter Cross, who had been her and Lewes’s attorney and accountant for many years, and… Read More George Eliot’s Husbands (2)
December 22 is the death anniversary of English novelist and poet Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819, who died in London in 1880. She is best known by her pen name George Eliot, a male name adopted in partly to hide her gender, and partly to disguise her irregular social position, living as an unmarried… Read More George Eliot’s Husbands (1)
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens was first published on 19 December 1843. The first run of 6,000 copies sold out by Christmas Eve. Chapman and Hall issued second and third editions before the new year, and by the end of 1844 eleven more editions had been released. It is a morality tale of an… Read More A Christmas Carol
Ho preso parte a una rassegna di poesia amatoriale sul tema “E QUINDI USCIMMO A RIVEDER LE STELLE”.Tutte e tre le Cantiche si concludono con questa parola, ‘stelle’.Questa è la mia poesia LA SPERANZA La speranza sui davanzaliun tempo carezzando l’aria cantava.La scorsi un giorno più in làappesa a un filo : alla golaun cappio… Read More “… e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle”✍️
Shakespeare was buried in Holy Trinity Church, his local parish church in Stratford upon Avon, in which he was also baptised on 23 April 1566, with Mr and Mrs Smith as his godparents. It was not customary to be buried inside the church (rather than in the surrounding graveyard), but in 1605 one William Shakespeare,… Read More The Curse of Shakespeare’s Grave
Shakespeare’s burial is recorded in Stratford’s Parish Register on 25 April 1616, two days after his death: it was a modest service at Holy Trinity Church, the church where he had also been baptised. The was no public mourning, no one came from London, there were no poetic lamentations, no eulogies, or poems memorialising his… Read More Shakespeare’s Funeral
Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon at the age of fifty-two. It occurred within a month of signing his will, a document in which he described himself as being “in perfect health & memorie, god be praysed”. This was probably a typical phrase and did not necessarily mean he was… Read More Shakespeare’s Unexplained Death
As we know, William Shakespeare the man, has remained an elusive figure. He left behind little documentation — no letters, no handwritten manuscripts, few contemporary accounts, and only six signatures, each spelled in a different way. Here are the six signatures: From the a legal lawsuit case, dated May 11, 1612: Willm Shakp From the… Read More Shakespeare’s Signatures
The mysterious Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton Here is the first part It is believed that after Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway, the other Anne vanished into local legend. There are, however, various theories about her.One claims that she really married the teenager Shakespeare in secret, and then retired to the secluded manor house of… Read More Shakespeare’s two Annes: 2. Shakespeare’s Other Anne (second part)
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