"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Following the release of debut album ‘Sound Tracks’ by Scottish contemporary classical ensemble ‘Earthtones Trio’, Antonine, ...

The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.