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Despite all this, by the Renaissance enough survived for two leading Italian critics, Longinus and Dionysios of Halikarnassos , each to quote at full length a poem of Sappho 's, which they thereby preserved. Other...

After graduating from Oxford , BP lived at home with her parents in Oswestry, not seeking paid work but principally occupied by her writing.

The move, undertaken so that RB might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold that they would receive a warm welcome, was to provide them with a home for...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...

Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .

The title (not the one under which it was first submitted) strikingly anticipates that of Sylvia Plath 's The Bell Jar, 1963, with its image of an invisible barrier separating the protagonist from the...

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...

Let Me Alone is the book which introduces the orphan protagonist Anna Kavan, whose name the author later adopted as her persona. This novel of feminist protest is considered autobiographical, since Kavan's Aunt Lauretta is...

Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attackCM reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky , editor of the Palestine Post,

The first part of Fasting, Feasting, set in a middle-class household in Delhi, focuses on Uma and Aruna struggling with their role as dutiful daughters. Whereas Aruna leaves the family home for a...

In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...

FD sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's...

The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to...

The novel is technically innovative: Murdoch composes several chapters entirely either of unattributed dialogue (at parties or social gatherings) or of letters which do not constitute a continued correspondence but, like the conversation, a cacophony...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...