Plato

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...