Dante Alighieri

Although her daughter says that her interest in literature (like that in science) came much later than her childhood enthusiasms for drawing, calligraphy, and scholarship, Margaret Scott (later MG ) at seventeen so admired Dante

The title poem, wrote a critic some years later, wrestled towards a vision of poetic transcendence in the person of James Joyce , while the volume as a whole reflects...

JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.

The education of JOH (then Pearl Richards) began with an English governess at the family's London home. In her teens she made full use of the educational and cultural resources of the capital. Annie S...

Two months later he reported it as attracting much favourable attention when hung at the Portland Gallery , while AMH 's mother wrote that it was immediately sold, and brought in two commissions. One...

JFLW never used her first name, except for inconsequential correspondence. She was probably christened Frances (as was an elder sister who died) and later italianized it. She also developed a rich etymology for her surname...

This satirical and often surreal novel is set at a summer school designed simultaneously to improve the figure and the mind through diet and creative writing: the Better Body Through the Arts Course. The story...

Sheila was educated at Hastings, at St Leonard's Ladies' College (almost next-door to her home), from 1896 to 1905. Like many large private schools of the time, this one educated its pupils to eighteen...

She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe 's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...

The story opens at an art school, with male students discussing female models. Bonyng, a fair, slim youth, is, unlike the other students, embarrassed by women. Among the models one is conventionally voluptuous, but...

The British Council website on writers points out that despite its slangy style and up-to-the-minute references (contemporary, bathetic and very funny), this work has its structural roots in medieval poetic dialogues, in the...

The novel relates the love between Dante Alighieri , scholar and poet, and the aristocrat Beatrice Portinari , and the way her early death inspired his work, particularly the Divina Commedia. The political and...

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

She begins with a Dantesque evocation of a mid-life questioning of potential never realised. At this stage, she says, You think of the children you might have had but didn't. When the midwife says, It's...