In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda...
In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on th...
Described by Virginia Woolf herself as 'easily the best of my books', and by her husband Leonard ...
Salomé, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retel...
In Why I Write, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing ...
When Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour was published in 1730, it was a sensation - but Mary Co...
Stephen Leacock is an unjustly forgotten master of the short-story genre who was considered the b...
'Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this pai...
First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of severa...
'The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a close...
Drawing on the rich mythological history associated with the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus,...
'There's only control, control of ourselves and others. And you have to decide what part you play...