In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda...

Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protag...

In 1928 Virginia Woolf gave two speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ''Women...

''Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he kill...

First published in 1922, The Camomile opens with Ellen and her brother Ronald living under the st...

Taking its name from the illuminated medieval prayer book form, The Midwife's Book of Hours takes...

Stephen Leacock is an unjustly forgotten master of the short-story genre who was considered the b...

First published in 1688, Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave is a short, politically charged novella by...

'Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this pai...

Described by Virginia Woolf herself as 'easily the best of my books', and by her husband Leonard ...

Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered t...

Salomé, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retel...