The second treatments of the Eloisa and Abelard story written by Australian poet Gwen Harwood and published in 1961 under the male pseudonym of Walter Lehmann is ‘Abelard to Eloisa.’ (The first was ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ : see here) Now it is Abelard ‘s turn to speak and he addresses passionate words of love and… Read More Gwen Harwood and Abelard (2)
Two treatments of the Eloisa and Abelard story were published in 1961 and the situation was used as a weapon in the gender war.The author was Australian poet and librettist Gwen Harwood who, writing under the assumed name of Walter Lehmann, managed to place two modernistic sonnets in a magazine The BulletinShe had already published… Read More Gwen Harwood and Eloisa (1)
Yesterday was the birthday of Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born on 27 January 1832.The author of the children’s classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass”, was also a mathematician, a photographer, an inventor, and an Anglican deacon (1). The last novel he published during his lifetime was “Sylvie… Read More Lewis Carroll
Edgar Allan Poe first met Virginia Clemm in 1829, shortly after his mother’s death, when she was 7 years old, and he was 20. Their parents, his natural father and her mother were siblings, and Edgar, who had moved into their house, probably transferred the feelings for his mother to his Aunt Maria, and later… Read More 22 September 1835 – E. A. Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin
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