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The short story "My Last Girlfriend" by Robert Barnard is a take-off on "My Last Duchess" with a new twist. [9] Science fiction author Eric Flint uses portions of "My Last Duchess" in his book 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004). [10] Canadian author Margaret Atwood's short story "My Last Duchess" appears in her short story anthology Moral Disorder ...
Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558 to 1561. Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died young, her marriage was short and unhappy. The Duchess died of pulmonary tuberculosis, but almost ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and ...
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates .
Joanna L. Laynesmith (née Chamberlayne) is a scholar of medieval studies, focusing on medieval queenship.Her book: The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-924737-4, ISBN 0-19-927956-X) jointly won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize in 2005 and the Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize in 2004.
Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈtʃɔːsər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]
1962–1964. Preserved. 6229, 6233, 6235. Disposition. Three preserved, remainder scrapped. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class[a] is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier. They were an enlarged and improved version of his previous design, the LMS Princess Royal Class, and on test ...
The Book of the Duchess. The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, [1] is the earliest of Chaucer 's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC", and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Based on the themes and title of the poem, most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368 ...