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family albums

cricket, criticism, & Clytaemnestra

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

household exercises

The Victim of Prejudice

or, the difficulties of being desired

A Sudden Liberating Thought

with no sudden crisis of conscience

Crambe repetita (6)

Collins, The Woman in White.

‘could it be J— H— herself?’

Jane Ellen Harrison, 1850–1928

Independent lecturer in London, later a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, Jane Harrison was author of (among other things): Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Relgion (1903) and Themis: a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion (1912). She is also one of the few women mentioned in the who’s who [...]

It was the Distance

For no good reason1 I’ve been reading The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (ed. W. Martin, CUP: 2002). It is somewhat refreshing to find books which do not concern Cicero. And it is interesting to step outside the charmed circle of academics and then to peer back in, as though through windows. For one can [...]

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