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Aphra Behn

17 Books on Women Across Three Centuries

Saints, Wives, Nuns, Poets, and Prophets: Early Books on Women I intended to select a dozen books and somehow arrived at twenty. Once gathered together, however, they seemed to belong in one conversation, and I have left them that way.... Continue Reading →

1673-1701, Female Wits; Aphra Behn, Judith Drake, Mary Pix, Anne Wharton,

777D Anne Wharton (1632?–1685: ) ; and many more A Collection of Poems: Viz. The Temple of Death: By the Marquis of Normanby. An Epistle to the Earl of Dorset: By Charles Montague, Lord Halifax. The Duel of the Stags:... Continue Reading →

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things!

Lucretius, has always made me feel hopeful and some how more connected to the universe and less to the subjective problems we perceive. “Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring Underworld.”  VIRGIL “In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius […]

Seven English Restoration Plays!

"FROM 1642 onward for eighteen years, the theaters of England remained nominally closed. There was of course evasion of the law; but whatever performances were offered had to be given in secrecy, before small companies in private houses, or in... Continue Reading →

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things!

Lucretius, has always made me feel hopeful and some how more connected to the universe and less to the subjective problems we perceive. "Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all... Continue Reading →

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