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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

The romance story is richly embellished with detail: highwaymen, a house burning down, and debates on topics like music, national stereotypes, and the nature of love. Bellflœur goes by the name of Mr Flower...

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...

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 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...

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...

It is listed by the British Library catalogue in JB 's name only, but she had help from the other women. Earlier in the year she had given an address on women's rights and protective...

She dedicated it to Lady Hertford . A manuscript note on the title-page of the British Library copy says, containing her own Life and Adventures; on the verso the same hand...

MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...