Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...

In The Economic Parasitism of WomenVL argues that women's socially-produced dependence on men has caused them to degenerate mentally and physically. She opens with an ironically-inflected confession of her own previous resistance to militant...

The story reflects Nietzsche 's belief that the artist must show mastery over women. Rebecca West gave it a favourable review.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...