In this blog post Samantha Evans, editor of Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, looks at the life of Emma Darwin and her relationship with women's higher education.
Read MoreIn this blog post Samantha Evans, editor of Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, looks at the lives of some of the women surrounding Darwin.
Read MoreKeats' sonnet ''Great Spirits'' was written 200 years ago in 1816. We're celebrating this 200th anniversary with a blog post written by Susan Wolfson, author of Reading John Keats.
Read MoreTwo-hundred years ago, in October 1816 … . . . a brilliant young medical student, trained at Guys Hospital in London, aced his apothecary examination (apothecaries were basic practitioners). Notwithstanding this success, John Keats, who had already been writing poetry and had published one poem (a sonnet on solitude) in Leigh Hunt’s progressive weekly newspaper, […]
Read MoreDeirdre Osborne, editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature, explores the legacy of Black History Month and the current state of Black and Asian writing in Britain.
Read MoreAssembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that is taught in a variety of contexts and courses, including modules on Romanticism, the Gothic, science fiction and gender studies, amongst many others. It is also […]
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