Plato

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

Virginia read Aeschylus , Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case , who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over...

The stories begin with Jack and the Beanstalk and include Bluebeard and Cinderella. EPW is not over-respectful of her sources. In her Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Jones (the giant's wife) donates her late...

Her introduction demonstrates a good knowledge of ancient Greek poetry and its publication history. In addition to selections by Plato and Theocritus , the book includes single poems by Sappho and Erinna .

This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one.

HT 's reviews include an appraisal of Sarah Austin 's translation Tour of a German Prince, which appeared in May 1832. A harsh review of Frances Trollope 's Domestic Manners of the...

She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith to change the title, which refers to Plato 's Socratic dialogue on the nature of love.

She went on publishing there occasionally for sixteen years: stories, sonnets, a long narrative poem, translation, and further essays on such topics as Plato and Benjamin Jowett .

When Mary first met Percy Shelley , he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

She found this work on illegible and sometimes unfinished manuscripts confusing and tantalising. During 1839 she had worked with Leigh Hunt to bowdlerise her husband's version of Plato 's Symposium for publishing in 1840...

PBS made (and Mary Shelley transcribed) the first English translation of Plato 's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content.

This poem is written in couplets (the interspersed hymns are not by MAS ). Central characters include a Polish nobleman and his two sons (a child and a young adult), the actual Anna Nitschmann (1715-60...

FR denied that she knew Latin, yet she used Latin tags in her letters. As an adult she worked persistently at self-education. Her commonplace-book contains her reading notes on Plato , Aristotle , Pliny ,...

MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...