Homer

Adam Thorpe picked this as a book of the year for the Times Literary Supplement: Allnutt's wonderful poems allow in ever more silence, figured on the page by a double space between lines and...

MA published one of the two opening titles in Canongate 's Myths series, a feminist retelling of Homer 's Odyssey entitled The Penelopiad, The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.

PA 's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland and promises: If this Trifle sells you may be sure to hear of me again. It asserts her claim that she writes...

Here Barker retains the main lines of a story related by Homer , but from the mostly unexplored women's viewpoint (where she is given a lead by Euripides ' powerful play The Trojan Women)...

Her protagonist, NB says, is not herself, though the milieu comes from her own experience. The action takes place in a single day, the day Penelope has decided (thinking wryly of the exemplary wifely faithfulness...

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) keeps women from reading great writers...

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

CBR published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, which relates a modern woman to the Homeric , or Æschylean , Trojan prophet Cassandra.

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

George Croly in the Dublin Review also focused on FB 's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the...

For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident.

The reviews of the Through Jade Gate were generally favourable. Lewis Gannett of the New York Herald Tribune enacted a victory over the impulse to condescend: Three white-haired spinsters, preaching as they went—and they tell...

She was, she said, mainly self-educated from the books which were all around her. (She read Pope 's Homer at nine.) She studied Sanskrit, Persian, and Icelandic as an adult. She later believed firmly that...

AC 's starting-point is the poem about Geryon by the Greek lyric poet Stesichoros or Stesichorus, whose surviving writings are so gnomic and fragmentary that every statement about them remains hesitant and uncertain. Stesichoros is...

Mary Delany said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully s, Homer s, and Milton s. Though Homer and Cicero are connected chiefly with oral texts, the inclusion of Milton suggests that Delany...