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Towards the end of her work LH addresses men, telling them her wish is that they should meet women halfway. Her expression of humility, or of dissatisfaction with her own work (my aerial car...

She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...

Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look...

EE 's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell , Anne Bacon , Katherine Chidley (as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards

Young though LJL was, her play (written for a domestic audience of readers, possibly of spectators) participated in the intellectual debates of its time. She worked from an edition of the original Greek, published in...

The British Library copy differs from other extant copies in adding a concluding poem of eleven couplets (about the soul's parting from the body, after death has rendered the body disgusting), which is now known...

Seven years into the story, Erica is earning money by journalism (she enjoys working in the homelike reading room of the British Museum ). Brian has admitted to himself that he is in love with...

The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...

She is interested in hidden history, in apparently negligible people or objects whose historical significance is apparent only with hindsight, like the ginger-haired baby who would one day be known as Queen Elizabeth or the...

Meanwhile, Lady Frances begins by building one hundred dwellings (designed by Capability Brown ) to house artisans and workmen, and proceeds to construct a museum, library, astronomical observatory, an anatomy room, studios, a botanical garden...

Woodville/Davenant credits his rescue from dissipation and folly partly to the virtuous Fanny and partly to learning the effects of seduction. His emotional education involves a scene which would humanize the heart even...

HP was determined that his manuscripts should not go abroad but remain in the British Library . This duly happened, first on loan and then by purchase. At the official handover ceremony in March...

Historian Dorothy L. Latz prints or discusses several of CH 's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH may have written...

The young writer allegedly authored one or more essays about Jersey for a book by her mentor Henry David Inglis that must be his The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Aldernay &c. (The Results of a...