Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

RW 's fifth novel, Dragon's Blood: Conte de Fée Deuxième, set in postwar Germany, explored, in Nietzsche an terms, the sense of loss and chaos.

O'Brien became known for his regular anthologies of selected recent short stories. He also published a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche . The couple had one child together, a son.

Finally, Women to a Philosopher is a feminist response to Nietzsche : Saw you not the brain-wrecking absurdity / Of preaching superman and scorning women? These responses are spontaneous and casual, probably never intended...

EA published the novel In the Mountains, the title of which she took from a passage in Nietzsche : in the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.

Her early novels combine a strain of intellectualism (characters discuss Shaw and Nietzsche ) with a self-conscious modernity (attention to issues and to sophistication of tone). She was held to belong to the stream of...

GBS 's Man and Superman, a Nietzsche an romantic comedy, was first publicly presented (without the third act) by the Stage Society at the Court Theatre in London.

Her essays in this journal reflect her wide literary and social knowledge; they include Days with Walt Whitman, Thearchy and Socialism, Down with the Lords, and Nietzsche.

In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson , who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she...

At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Tillie was a difficult child, skipping family chores to spend time at the public library, with its huge painting of...

They met for the first time in Glasgow in September 1918, at a gathering at a mutual friend's flat. At this time Willa was twenty-eight and happy with her independence. I thought I had been...

She signed an agreement with George Allen on 1 October 1909 which gave her an advance on royalties of £100. However, by early May 1914 the firm was in receivership and the Receiver wrote to...

This includes much fascinating detail about the circumstances and forms of her earliest writing, and paints a vivid picture of her underlying attitudes: the longing for an exotic world quite unlike the familiar terrain of...

DM judged The Ego and His Ownthe most powerful book that has ever emerged from a single mind. She adopted Stirner's emphasis on individualism and anti-intellectualism, and began writing against political movements...

DM contributed essays to the re-named journal, often on egoist and linguistic philosophies, until it folded in late 1919. In these she engaged variously with Stirner , Nietzsche , Bergson , and Berkeley , among...