“... literature between 1830 and 1860, a poem written in 1846 by a white woman abolitionist called Elizabeth Lloyd. Sanchez-Eppler again ‘finds many aspects of Crafts’s text problematic as the work of a woman who had spent much of her life as a plantation slave’, particularly her ‘general sense of isolation’, her ‘unusual attitude towards ...”

“... only merit two pages in Volume I and the Thirty Years’ War (for example) does not even get that. Elizabeth Fox Genovese has broadened this line of criticism to note that almost all human strivings and conflicts are absent from Braudel’s new book. ‘His is a petrified world,’ she lamented, ‘not a human one.’ It is unlikely that this rebuke would ...”

“... 85th birthday of Vaughan Williams, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or the opening of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Day-Lewis obliged with an appropriate verse. These public poems are not very good: Day-Lewis was not by nature a rhetorician, and his public poetic voice was at best unconvincing, and at worst embarrassingly false (as in his unfortunate poem about ...”

“... his most bitingly satirical and contemptuous poems about the bourgeoisie being read by stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Eve-Marie Saint, to whoops of delight from a well-to-do, enlightened middle-class audience. He was (to put it moderately) unenthusiastic about academics: yet here were numbers of professors competing for what one can only call ‘bits’ of ...”

“... churchwardens ran the parishes, became increasingly concerned with such matters in the reign of Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts; utopian writers from More to Gott shared the same concern. In More’s Utopia intensive and disciplined use of the labour resources of the whole country results in the prevention of scarcity. A century later ‘Burton was ...”

“... not all children ‘got on well’ in the world. Among the cases Soares has uncovered are those of Elizabeth R., who was dismissed and sent back to her mother after she wore her mistress’s clothes, and Ellen G., who was sent back to the society for ‘sulkiness’.Waifs were considered ‘worse than orphans’, as Barnardo put it; orphans at least had no ...”

“... well-informed speculation. It’s maddening that we don’t know whether Manteo and Wanchese met Elizabeth I. The German travel writer Lupold von Wedel said they did – but that’s all we have, along with the thought that Raleigh probably did orchestrate a meeting because he was such a show-off. After five pages about Essomericq, a Brazilian child enslaved ...”

“... Iowa Writers’ Workshop (‘biggest drug drop between Chicago and Denver’) and was taught by Elizabeth Hardwick, who called her first attempt at a novel ‘the most disgusting book I’ve ever read’. Lynn is right that she will never ‘marry a handsome young man and live in Scarsdale’; instead, DeLynn entered, in hesitant stages, into lesbian life ...”

“... the marvel!Historians have long understood printing as the cause of various ‘revolutions’: Elizabeth Eisenstein, in 1979, argued that we should understand the printing press as ‘an agent of change’. The Senate House Library exhibition uses other works in its collections to trace the familiar narratives: the Reformation, the nation-state, the ...”

“... functioned not as a name but as a signal. I have some qualms about the contention that ‘I am Elizabeth Anscombe’ is not an identity statement, since in the right context the statement would be a revelation of her identity. However, the disclaimer could perhaps be justified as a precaution against those misguided philosophers who think that statements ...”

“... cartoonists often call him) burst out of exile and raised an army. She reports, via Princess Elizabeth, to the British royal family, using, lest the letters be intercepted, a code that would have delighted Murasaki since it consists of calling the personages of the royal family by such names as Magnolia and Honey Suckle. She notes that in France it is ...”

“... sentence after sentence’. Her criticisms of prominent women writers such as Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen and Woolf appear to be coloured by jealousy, while her praise of lesser-known women writers, such as Ruth Suckow and E.B.C. Jones, seems extravagant. It is something of a shock to discover that the prototype of the pessimistic and deprecatory ...”

“... at a sitting. We drank crème de menthe and water between whiles. ‘You’ is Guinness’s wife Elizabeth at their home near Andover. This book is an editing of his letters to her in four years of separation, plus a few letters to his father, and some entries in the diaries he was keeping. Guinness had travelled out by ship from Greenock and (didn’t most ...”

“... belong more to the comic underplots of 19th-century English fiction than to a New Zealand reality. Elizabeth Bowen, commenting on the New Zealand stories of the kind Mansfield suppressed, says: ‘their flavour and vigour raise a question – could she have made a regional writer? Did she, by leaving her own country, deprive herself of a range of ...”

“... operation for the stone, by subsequent brushes with death, or by fear of blindness. An entry on Elizabeth Pepys suggests that her chronic gynaecological troubles may have caused her husband to stray. So much for health. Volume I contains Latham’s excellent account of earlier editions of the diary. This reveals that in a Mid-Victorian transcription by the ...”