Johann Sebastian Bach

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

She became an atheist there following a discussion with Professor Philipp Spitta , an expert on Bach . He explained to her that in tuning, the third and fourth notes of the octave had...

A Fugue in Time has three epigraphs: a description of the simultaneous, independent melodies present in Bach 's fugues; eighteen lines from T. S. Eliot 's still fairly recent East Coker (from Home is where...

Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill , published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family...

Yet suffrage did not cease to be her goal. She was instrumental, after the passing of the Representation of the People Act giving the vote to women over thirty in February 1918, in getting the...

JS has also published her poems in periodicals. The Times Literary Supplement carried two of them in the year of her first collected volume. On 2 September 2000 The Guardian (which had printed her work...

EA never again seriously engaged in work for the theatre, though she often contemplated writing an experimental play which was to have many tiny scenes, none lasting longer than five minutes and with Bach fugues...

In Strawberry Boy, JD explores questions of race, telling the story of a black man named Saul and his decision to leave the comforts of white acceptability to live in a commune of squatters...