By Ross MacFarlane Research Engagement Officer Wellcome Library This Victorian engraving captures a key scene in one...
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Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831....
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From Will S. at TheLiteracySite.com: For most, the love of books starts in childhood. For others, this...
Dido and Aeneas / Creative Commons Book I of the Aeneid contains a masterfully created scene that...
By Dr. Daisy Garofalo The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Shakespeare features twin characters in two of his comedies,...
Miniature of a manticore, a creature with the body of a lion, the head of a man,...
Both Hamlet and ‘True Detective’’s Rust Cohle make audiences wonder whether they’re deserving of sympathy or blame....
By Dr. Ellen Stefan NASA Chief Scientist “Sweet Moon,” William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,...
Former British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. The Spectator By Nigel Hamilton History and Biography Senior Fellow University...
Inspired by a 100-year-old diary, this founder of the Mormon feminist movement encourages everyone to keep journals...
William Shakespeare / Creative Commons By Gene Gordon / 04.18.2016 William Shakespeare died 400 years ago on...
In order to support his young family, William Faulkner took a job shoveling coal at a power...
By Alex Lee PhD Student, Italian University College London The first manuscript that I ever encountered face-to-face...
In the latter half of the 17th century the English polymath Thomas Browne wrote Musaeum Clausum, an...
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Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual – first published in 17th-century London and reprinted...