Analysis of two recently discovered diaries affords a new way of looking at Catholic chaplain’s roles, responsibilities, fears, and dilemmas. Accompanying the fighting soldiers in Picardy, Flanders, a
Control. Jealousy. Isolation. Blame. Anger. Violence. Adele was just 23 years old when she was scarred for life by an acid attack arranged by her ex-boyfriend, Anthony. The attack left her partially b
The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the con
Out of a lifetime of working with plants — including her development of the famous Barnhaven primroses — the late Florence Bellis distilled these reflections on the interrelationships of living things
In this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to make positive statements about women and to undercut the negat
This historical literary study analyzes The Siege of Rouen, a poem written in Middle English which describes Henry V’s siege of Normandy in 1418; the poem is also related to the Middle English Brut ch
John Updike’s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike’s developing personality and precocious creativity. Relying upon interviews with classmates and friends, and offering extensive co
