Homer

Virginia read Aeschylus , Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case , who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over...

Erich Auerbach chose a passage from early in To the Lighthouse, which he calls The Brown Stocking, to close his influential work Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946 (which...

PW was a black African, whose colour dictated all her life-experiences as a slave in the USA (a British colony during much of her life) from the moment when, at the age of seven or...

JW 's preface invokes Shakespeare , Virgil , Homer , and Sir Walter Scott (she later adds Thomas Percy ) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry

A play for young people by TW opened at the Unicorn Theatre: My Father Odysseus, which she insists is not an adaptation of Homer 's Odyssey.

In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...

This book was hammered by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times as a compendium of inanities. In Britain the Sunday Telegraph more respectfully called it a modern take on the HomerOdyssey in which...

The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...

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...

She describes her father's house on the island (set just above the bay where in Homer 's Odyssey Ulysses met Nausicaa), and a number of local characters like Maria the cook and her husband Thodoros.

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...

The year after RS died, three strikingly different posthumous books by her appeared:Black Ships Before Troy. The Story of the Iliad, which retells Homer 's epic poem in novel form; The Minstrel and...

The Economist reviewed Black Ships, finding it intellectually taxing for children, but useful in sorting out some of Homer 's complications and digressions.

The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.

The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. The actual woman behind the story was Rebecca Berry, later Elton . The coat of arms of her...