John Donne

After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls , NS received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen . Her studies in English laid...

The scrappily emerging stories of how these men ended up in Guantanamo Bay are horrifying in their randomness and confusion. For an audience already familiar with the outlines, details still convey a shock, as when...

WT keeps in close touch with family members through her letters, expressing her sense of involvement through her anxiety for Jesuit brothers travelling invisibly around England, or her concern for the different problems of a...

This convent was linked with that of the nun and writer Gertrude More (who died in 1633) and her sister and cousins, all of whom were closely related to John Donne . It had been...

GT exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby , who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne into Italian.Constance Fowler 's poetry manuscript, which includes many...

These poems reflect gender power struggles: whether writing about motherhood, or the end of a marriage, or travelling by train to a Women's Liberation conference (another display / of all the frayed edges)...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

The novel's epigraph is the especially popular passage from John Donne 's Meditation 17 which begins No man is an Island. The epigraph illustrates the novel's critique of extreme individualism and selfishness embodied by Hetty.

In the opening chapter the narrator, a woman named Billie Crusoe, is making publicity announcements to a crowd of the inhabitants of Orbus about the newly-discovered Blue Planet, to which they will be encouraged to...