Joan of Arc

The contents of this volume span a range of genres and moods. poems about places or natural objects observe with precision; love poems are often ambivalent: won't you make my blood / jump? won't you...

The original typescript of 200,000 words covered such topics as Joan of Arc , French poets, suicide . . . English romantic poetry, bulls, George Sand , and so on.

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

She opens her discussion here with a question: What does the Woman's Movement mean and what is its significance in our modern life? First of all, she answers, the movement signifies the awakening of...

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 ...

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

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...

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

This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the...

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...

Her notorious nom de guerre was chosen with no thought of Jane Warton the eighteenth-century writer, but from a sympathetic relative named Warburton (which she altered because of distinguished bearers of that name) and from...

The Lady's Museum is rich in illustrations (and boasts one musical score). Its frontispiece (copied by The Lady's Magazine of 1789) shows a studious woman from whom Cupid's dart is being deflected. Education is...

The more than thirty poems in the volume include ballads and lyrics, as well as Historical Sketches that recount the lives of Joan of Arc and Mary, Queen of Scots . The poem To Death...

Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc to Queen Victoria .

One of the book's discussions centres on Joan of Arc , and sees in her life a dilemma particular to women: the price which all must pay for celebrity in some shape or other.