Joan of Arc

In this year, 1854, Elizabeth Gaskell visited the Nightingales' Derbyshire home, Lea Hurst, and stayed on there to write when the family left for Embley Park. Having met FN at...

HC underlines her argument by examining myth. The mythical image of Perseus before the Medusa is invoked to describe a male fear of woman, and she calls women the dark region of men's world, saying:...

Saint Joan, a history play by GBS responding to Joan 's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre , starring Sybil Thorndike . The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was...

The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...

EJ 's Vindication of the Church of England drew a satirical response which shows it had hit its target. An Address of Thanks On Behalf of the Church of England, by an anonymous dissenter...

The stories, not arranged chronologically, cover periods from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the middle ages. Named characters include William of Wykeham (founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford ), the pioneer...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

The historical women characters are grouped as the Learned, the Heroic, etc. As well as them, the action involves the abstract characters Prejudice and Justice. It is not Justice but Joan of Arc , one...

She wrote of their presence at a public procession: Joan of Arc . . . was not more typical of the spirit that leads to victory . . . than was the paper-seller, dressed in...

CM notes that Villon was born in the year the English burned Joan of Arc . That is to say, using the style of a book published in 1838 entitled Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris...

ER , as the author of Whitefriars, etc. but posing as an editor, published The Maid of Orleans, a historical novel about Joan of Arc .

AM , as the author of Mary Powell, published A Noble Purpose Nobly Won, An Old, Old Story, a historical novel about Joan of Arc .

MO published Jeanne d'Arc ; Her Life and Death.

MW published Joan of Arc : The Image of Female Heroism, her study of the legendary Maid of Orleans who became a fearless soldier, a martyr, and eventually a saint.

JP set Epitaph for Three Women, twelfth of her thirteen Plantagenet novels and one of three this year, after Henry V 's death; its three women are his queen Katherine or Catherine of Valois