Plato

MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...

She dedicated this book to Myles Burnyeat , her husband, whom she thanks for encouragement, criticism, and rubbing my nose in philosophers; for help with child care, books, lucidity, and Plato . A...

Later she became interested in Plato . In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory , her longtime friend...

Virginia read Aeschylus , Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case , who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over...

In the early 1780s she was reading such challenging authors as Milton , Plato , Plutarch , and Aristotle .

Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate...

FR denied that she knew Latin, yet she used Latin tags in her letters. As an adult she worked persistently at self-education. Her commonplace-book contains her reading notes on Plato , Aristotle , Pliny ,...

DL takes her title from Plato 's allegory about cave-dwellers who never see the outside world, but believe they can understand it from observing the shadows thrown on the walls of their cave. She applies...

Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL used to stay with...

This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one.

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...

The stories begin with Jack and the Beanstalk and include Bluebeard and Cinderella. EPW is not over-respectful of her sources. In her Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Jones (the giant's wife) donates her late...

Late in the volume come some poems in jaunty quatrains. The speaker in The Search, having vainly pursued truth, first in the countryside, then in cities, courts, the army, etc., then thought I was...

KBG was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman , Edward Carpenter , and Plato .