Midwives, EC
argues, were professionally organized hundreds if not thousands of years earlier than physicians. Her argument presses into service the Bible, classical texts, ancient and European history. She cites Exodus 1. 15-21, where midwives...
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, 1876, http://U of Toronto.
title-page
The first, despite its title, is...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Nihell
Like Elizabeth Cellier
, Nihell claims authority for women from ancient history. It was probably Eve, she says, not Adam, who delivered the first human babies. The mother of Socrates
was a midwife, and inoculation...
Textual Production
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.
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