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One of the most influential gay and lesbian novels, The Well of Loneliness recounts the life and loves of Stephen Gordon, a defiant woman who simply wants to be true to herself.

The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) is best known for his epic poem Metamorphoses, a collection of myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. His works continue…

The Fable of the Bees – a satirical poem, prose discussion, three essays and six dialogues completed in 1729 – exposes human vices but defends them as a necessity…

Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther is a novella written by Elizabeth von Arnim, a British-German author known for her witty and insightful novels. Published in 1907, the story revolves around…

First published in 1920, Potterism is a powerful satire about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled during the First World War and the 1920s…

Crewe Train was published in 1926 and follows the story of Denham Dobie, a young woman in her early thirties, who lives a rather uneventful life in London. She is an independent and intelligent…

Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection…

In 1892, Gertrude Bell visited Persia (now Iran) shortly after the appointment of her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, as British minister in Tehran. Three years later came…

‘The sweetness of her glance – or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin – did not allow me to hesitate for a moment…’ So begins the story…

Best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an almost exact contemporary of Edith Wharton, is celebrated as one of America’s foremost feminist writers.

Podcast: Discussing the Author Albert Maltz with Dr Patrick Chura and Rupert Degas

A fascinating discussion, hosted by Naxos AudioBooks, with Dr Patrick Chura (University of Akron, Ohio) and Rupert Degas (actor, narrator and Audiofile ‘Golden Voice’) on the American author Albert Maltz (1908–1985), one of the ‘Hollywood Ten’ whose books were suppressed but have recently been published by Alma Books.

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The NAB Blog: Latin Love Lessons: Ovid’s Elegiac Poetry

Ovid’s love poems form a trilogy within his creative output. The first collection, Amores (Loves), dates from his youth. Its five books (later edited by the poet himself into three) were published around 16 BCE, when the poet was not yet 30 years of age.

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