BC: The traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the ...

There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire ...

Based, as the name suggests, on Lucy Punch’s break-out character, the “alpha mum” of the schoolgates, the spin-off focusses ...

Whether it’s John Murray burning Lord Byron’s letters at Albemarle Street, Charles Dickens consigning his correspondence with Wilkie Collins to the flames, or Sylvia Plath’s personal ...

In August 1831, a slave, Methodist preacher, and prophet named Nat Turner led the only successful slave revolt in American history, one that left 55 white men, women, and children dead in a two ...

When Faulkner’s character Gavin Stevens in “Requiem for a Nun” declares that “the past is never dead. It is not even past,” he ... The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He ...

This edition, however, contains works by the likes of Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare ...

Her best friend Pinky (Jacki Weaver) has just passed away, and Grace is looking back on her own life, narrating to her pet snail Sylvia – as in Plath ... And then he’s dead.

So much of it is about how the rest of the world responded to the queen, using the same words again and again, as in “The queen looked quietly radiant” (Sylvia Plath after a royal visit to ...

Ted Hughes once suggested that his romance with Sylvia Plath dominated his university years, forthrightly beginning a poem with the line “Cambridge was our Courtship.” To assume Plath felt the same is ...