Literary Heroine
One of Croatia’s most-read authors, Marija Jurić Zagorka spent her life in defiance of convention.
One of Croatia’s most-read authors, Marija Jurić Zagorka spent her life in defiance of convention.
Was the worst poet in history a hidden visionary?
Not a queen or a saint, witch or idealised lady-love, the Wife of Bath is a much-married working woman and an enthusiastic traveller.
The smooth whiteness of paper belies the mess and hard labour that went into its production.
Controversy surrounding the ‘Satanic Verses’ is centuries old.
Notes in the margins of early modern books can be very revealing about their readers’ lives and interests.
Is King Lear the Shakespearean tragedy for a world of capitalism and catastrophe?
The advent of telecommunications gave rise to a new literary genre through which female telegraphers and writers found social freedoms.
As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library.
Dinner parties in the ‘Revolutionary Age’ with the publisher Joseph Johnson.