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The article formed the basis of a paper titled Character in Fiction that VW read to the Heretics Society in Cambridge on 18 May 1924. The paper was published, as Character in Fiction...

She lectured at University College, London, in November 1966. Her Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge University a year later became The Sovereignty of Good, 1970; her Romanes Lecture delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford...

MT was an inveterate letter-writer. Early in her married life she wrote a letter criticising the behaviour of some fashionable ladies, and delivered it on a visit for them to read. Some of her...

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...

SH built a novel, The Man in the Picture. A Ghost Story, around a picture of carnival revellers in Venice, familiar to her protagonist from its position hanging in the rooms of his...

Her eponymous Leonard Leuniger is a male Jewish undergraduate at Cambridge , a budding writer. He makes upper-class friends at university whose antisemitism only gradually reveals itself, cruelly frustrating his efforts to win their approval...

This is HO 's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson 's The Haunting of Hill House. The novel, which opens with an epigraph from African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks

The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...

This novel is set in the political climate which followed the recent Reform Bill, and in the fashionable area of the Faubourg St Germain in Paris, which its author knew at first hand, as well...

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

At last he says he will teach her no more: he feels he is leading her into the temptation of worldliness. Mr Howells, it turns out, once studied at Cambridge (as the first scholarship boy...

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...

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...

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time. She...

The play is remarkable among its other fun for a minor characater, Phoebe Clinket, an unhinged woman poet. She was wrongly identified in Edward Parker 's Key as Anne Finch , a mistake which has...