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‘Two Dear Greek Women’: Michael Field’s Dionysian aestheticism
By Alessia Colombo, Cataloguer Michael Field was the poetic identity created by Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece and sometime lover Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913). The two women...
Alan Turing – Decoding a Life
By Tomas Elliott Perhaps the reason why the life and legacy of Alan Turing (1912–1954) continue to fascinate is because they intersect with some of the great highs and lows of twentieth-century...
Style and Substance The trial of Oscar Wilde
By Madeleine Joelson and Kate Clairmont “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." So says The Importance of Being Earnest’s Gwendolen upon discovery of her lover’s...
Renée Vivien – Sappho’s first lesbian translator
By Lauren Hepburn In 1877 Pauline Tarn was born in London to British and American parents. She was schooled and spent much of her childhood in France, and began writing verses in French aged 10; at...
History, sex and identity – exploring the legacy of Mary Renault
For a novelist often regarded as ‘middle-brow’, twentieth-century author Mary Renault’s books are striking in their historical accuracy, psychological complexity and meaningful social impact....
Democratic Depravity: Curt Moreck’s Berlin
By Andy Stewart MacKay After the horrors of the Great War, “All values were changed” wrote the novelist Stefan Zweig of 1920s Berlin; the city “transformed into the Babylon of the world”. It wasn’t...
Anne le Fèvre Dacier: Homer’s first female translator
Penelope and her Suitors (1912) by John William Waterhouse The last ten years have brought particular focus to women’s engagement with the Classics. 2017 saw Emily Wilson publish her...
Gay Sunshine: Items from the private collection of Winston Leyland
In 1980, Allen Ginsburg wrote a letter to the Gay Sunshine Journal, praising ‘its presentation of literary history hitherto kept in the closet by the academies.’ Established in August 1970 in...
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