Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each of these two books opens with a quotation from Cicero ; the first goes on to relate (in the usual veiled terms) the history of the series, and provides a chronology (repeated in the...

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

Pro Aris et Focis shares the antifeminist tone of The Court Suburb Magazine. The Latin phrase, meaning for [our] altars and hearths, was used by Cicero and many others to imply devotion to sacred...

She begins her essay on old age (in the form of a letter to her daughter) by pointing out that Cicero has written on this topic too, to offer some guidance to those who have...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. According to critic...

Her husband had six surviving children already. AB had two daughters (who died young) before her two sons. In August 1557 she was hoping that her daughter Susan might get over her recurring fits of...

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...