François Rabelais

Before this she had worshipped, like her parents, at the City Temple , a leading Nonconformist church. The conversion surprised her friends and family, and her mother was particularly upset and hostile. Hobbes...

Colette wrote later of the way that a free and solitary childhood and adolescence, with plenty of opportunity to develop self-awareness and without any pressure to self-expression, had shaped her mind before the compulsion to...

Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations. As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...

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...

John Lane asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks (herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES should rewrite her manuscript.

By the time she entered high school she was keeping a journal in assorted and undated notebooks containing poems, bits of stories, drafts of letters, and reflections. One year into high school she began...

Her letters can be unexpected: don't be too hard on Rabelais . Remember that I have read enormously in fifteenth-century literature, and it is very foulspoken. . . . I think Rabelais was one of...