Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation, 2000.
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Dedications | Florence Nightingale | She dedicated this work to Phainarete
, mother of Socrates
, who was reputedly a midwife. Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation, 2000. 311 Without her knowing it, her proposal followed in the footsteps of that submitted by Elizabeth Cellier
in 1687... |
Education | Anne Carson | Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC
eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate... |
Education | Catherine Cookson | Once married, CC
set out to educate herself with books from the public library. She read the central canon in English from Shakespeare
to the Romantics. She also read philosophy and found Socrates
a help... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | Her father, Charles Leslie Stevenson
, took a second BA at Cambridge, England, after his marriage, before becoming a graduate student at Harvard, where the family spent six years. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 274-5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor
, and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates
. While pregnant with her son Edward she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Lyttelton | Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of... |
Leisure and Society | Evelyn Sharp | Apart from travelling and hiking together and discussing their respective writing, the couple had in common their pleasure in folk dancing. They were both members of the English Folk Dance Society
, founded by Evelyn's... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates
, Lucian
, Plutarch
, Aristotle
(who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman), qtd. in Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press, 1965. 167 |
Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | William Holman Hunt
wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation. “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad... |
Textual Features | Hélène Gingold | 'Tis not a woman's happiness quite To be a great man's mate. I do bethink That poor Xantippe not worse than others was. History relateth not her griefs, but those of Socrates . Gingold, Hélène. Abelard and Heloise. Greening, 1906. 69 |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé.... |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Xantippe was the wife of Socrates
, who is supposed in popular tradition to have been a scold whose obsessive housekeeping contrasted with her husband's deep philosophy. AL
sets out to rehabilitate her character in... |
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