Joan of Arc

In this first volume KT establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: Louise de la Vallière...

All the five subjects are royal or noble (like the subjects of Agnes Strickland ), except one: Joan of Arc , whom MGF ardently admired. The others include the writer Marguerite de Navarre and her...

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 presents Joan as a unique historical figure, for she was not a queen, a courtesan, a beauty, a mother, an artist, or (until very long after her death) a saint. Warner argues that...

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.

The women speakers of Dramatic Studies include the imprisoned Jeanne d'Arc. By the Looking-Glass gives voice to a plain girl seated beside her bedroom mirror after she has arrived home from a ball. Skilled...

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.

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 fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

She wished to see the remarkable changes that had taken place in India over the past decade. In fact only parts of her journey were overland, but it was still unusual not to make the...