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Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died... |
Textual Features | Jane Loudon | The introductory chapter opens with Mrs Seymour's two daughters running into difficulties with synchronicity. One is astonished that Homer
and Solomon
were at least near-contemporaries; the other could not think who was king of France... |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | In Prolegomena Harrison argues against the dominant contemporary thesis that Greek religion was based originally and primarily on Homer
's Olympian myths. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 164-5 |
Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering. 1: 25 |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation... |
Textual Features | Anne Dacier | She insists on admiring the presumed simplicity of manners in the Homeric age in preference to modern, civilized, sophisticated society. Her key image for Homer
's style—of wild, luxuriant, varied growth, the opposite of a... |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
Reception | Sarah Lewis | Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL
imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare
—the highest position accorded to... |
Reception | Anne Dacier | This translation made its debut at a time of renewed struggle in the querelle of the ancients and moderns. This debate had arisen in the 1680s, with Boileau
maintaining the superiority of ancient culture and... |
Publishing | Ruth Padel | In the same years as launching herself as a poet RP
began publishing as an academic critic. From her base in classical scholarship she turned her critical attention in 1985 towards the literature of modern... |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | A play for young people by TW
opened at the “My Father, Odysseus, Interview with Timberlake Wertenbaker”. Unicorn. |
Occupation | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
went on from sailing as a girl at home to crewing for an English owner. At the beginning of 1922 her friend Miette acquired a 21-foot sloop named Perlette, which she and Kini sailed... |
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