There are several constructions that are used to describe thoughts about the future that someone had at some point in the past. Read here and here.
https://grammartop.com/future-in-the-past/
https://magoosh.com/english-speaking/future-in-the-past-tense/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/towards-advanced/unit-15/session-1
William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April, which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.
Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeare’s poems also remain popular to this day. Read here.
Charlotte Brontë, pseudonym Currer Bell, was born 21 April 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Read here.
She is best known for her passionate novel Jane Eyre (1847), the story of an independent young governess who is in conflict with her natural desires and social condition, but she overcomes hardships while remaining true to her principles. It blended moral realism with Gothic elements. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction. She later wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853).
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/jane-eyre
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1345–1400) was enormously popular in medieval England, with over 90 copies in existence from the 1400s.
Its popularity may be due to the fact that the tales were written in Middle English, a language that developed after the Norman invasion, after which those in power would have spoken French. Continuous publication of The Canterbury Tales since Chaucer's death, and the inspiration it has provided for other writers and artists, are testimony to the enduring appeal of his characters and their stories: proof that people's hopes and fears – and the English sense of humour – are little changed by six centuries of history. Read here.
