Joan of Arc

IB 's Labour's Progress and Triumph traces the rise of industry from its quasi-mythological beginnings, when the Romans landed in Britain, to the present, when oppression's star has set, and men are free / To...

AEB published, as Mrs. Bray, a biography entitled Joan of Arc and the Times of Charles the Seventh , King of France.

EC published the short work Joan the Maid, which precedes Margaret Oliphant 's biography of Joan of Arc by seventeen years.

Christine de Pisan finished her Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, a poem commemorating Joan of Arc 's victory at Orléans that year, and the subsequent coronation of Charles VII .

HC underlines her argument by examining myth. The mythical image of Perseus before the Medusa is invoked to describe a male fear of woman, and she calls women the dark region of men's world, saying:...

All the five subjects are royal or noble (like the subjects of Agnes Strickland ), except one: Joan of Arc , whom MGF ardently admired. The others include the writer Marguerite de Navarre and her...

The historical women characters are grouped as the Learned, the Heroic, etc. As well as them, the action involves the abstract characters Prejudice and Justice. It is not Justice but Joan of Arc , one...

The stories, not arranged chronologically, cover periods from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the middle ages. Named characters include William of Wykeham (founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford ), the pioneer...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

EJ 's Vindication of the Church of England drew a satirical response which shows it had hit its target. An Address of Thanks On Behalf of the Church of England, by an anonymous dissenter...

One of the book's discussions centres on Joan of Arc , and sees in her life a dilemma particular to women: the price which all must pay for celebrity in some shape or other.

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc to Queen Victoria .

The more than thirty poems in the volume include ballads and lyrics, as well as Historical Sketches that recount the lives of Joan of Arc and Mary, Queen of Scots . The poem To Death...

The Lady's Museum is rich in illustrations (and boasts one musical score). Its frontispiece (copied by The Lady's Magazine of 1789) shows a studious woman from whom Cupid's dart is being deflected. Education is...