Plato

Very much like the tours and lectures Harrison began giving this decade, her published text offers vivid, dramatic descriptions of the culture under examination. Her oral and written works are similar in other ways: in...

FLN's works, like the volume already published of Gethin, are very largely composed of quotations. Norton addresses this issue in The Applause of Virtue, in her prefatory To the Reader, which opens...

Carter's poem To Miss Lynch claims (not for the only time) Katherine Philips as the model for her own writing. Philips's spotless verse with genuine force exprest / The brightest passion of the human breast...

Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson, this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...

Joseph Highmore painted EC in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson's poem To Eliza...

Reckoning by numbers of reprints issued, Lud-in-the-Mist is HM's most popular and enduring work. It was frequently re-issued between 1927 and 2000—especially, as Julia Briggs notes, since 1970, and the vogue for J. R. R. Tolkien

Elizabeth Isabella Spence, reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

This play provoked Samuel Daniel to respond with The Tragedy of Cleopatra (published in another work in 1594), and influenced Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Though apparently never acted, Antonius was much admired...

Nearly all the stories are historical fictions, set variously in the time of Plato (365 BC), the reign of Marcus Aurelius (179 AD), and that of Charles II. Their settings range from ancient Greece...

The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman, head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which...

WP continued to contribute essays on literature and Renaissance art to periodicals, adding Macmillan's Magazine to his list of employers. 1885 saw the publication of his novel Marius the Epicurean. Two years later, he...

Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato to Arthur Koestler. She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...

One of IM's two Plato nic dialogues, Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art, was given as a platform performance at the National Theatre.

It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.

HT's reviews include an appraisal of Sarah Austin's translation Tour of a German Prince, which appeared in May 1832. A harsh review of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the...