Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
491, 495-6
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Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | Andrew Cruikshank
spoke as Socrates
and Greg Hicks
as Plato
. The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986. |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith
to change the title, which refers to Plato
's Socratic
dialogue on the nature of love. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 491, 495-6 |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | |
Textual Production | Mary Hays | The publisher was Knott
. The title-page quotes Socrates
and Burns
. The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney
. MH
's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott. prelims Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Xantippe was the wife of Socrates
, who is supposed in popular tradition to have been a scold whose obsessive housekeeping contrasted with her husband's deep philosophy. AL
sets out to rehabilitate her character in... |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The essays include Samuel Pepys
and Francis Bacon
, Lord Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, http://U of Toronto. title-page |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé.... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Nihell | Like Elizabeth Cellier
, Nihell claims authority for women from ancient history. It was probably Eve, she says, not Adam, who delivered the first human babies. The mother of Socrates
was a midwife, and inoculation... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cellier | Midwives, EC
argues, were professionally organized hundreds if not thousands of years earlier than physicians. Her argument presses into service the Bible, classical texts, ancient and European history. She cites Exodus 1. 15-21, where midwives... |
Textual Features | Hélène Gingold | 'Tis not a woman's happiness quite To be a great man's mate. I do bethink That poor Xantippe not worse than others was. History relateth not her griefs, but those of Socrates . Gingold, Hélène. Abelard and Heloise. Greening. 69 |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad... |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | |
Literary responses | Sappho | Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates
, Lucian
, Plutarch
, Aristotle
(who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman), Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press. 167 |
Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | William Holman Hunt
wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation. “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
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