作者: Linda Bree

‘Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and died a Penitent’ So t …

‘Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and died a Penitent’ So t …

‘It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.’Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, some …

‘It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.’Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, some …

Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an …

When Jane Austen died, at the age of 41, she left behind her not only six novels but a large number of manuscripts, ranging from juvenile works to the novel that she was writing at the time of her fi …