'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
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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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....
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Iris Murdoch
Andrew Cruikshank
spoke as Socrates
and Greg Hicks
as Plato
. The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986.
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Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC
's Small Books on Great Subjects this year included two titles on Greek philosophy: the first running to the time of Pericles
, the second from the time of Socrates
to that of Christ
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Caroline Frances Cornwallis
These fifth and sixth books, A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles, and A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates
to the Coming of Christ
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Muriel Spark
She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith
to change the title, which refers to Plato
's Socratic
dialogue on the nature of love.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
491, 495-6
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Mary Hays
The publisher was Knott
. The title-page quotes Socrates
and Burns
. The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney
. MH
's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays.
Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott, 1793.