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by Louisa Baldwin, Aphra Behn, Stella Benson, D K Broster, Mona Caird, Catherine Crowe, Ethel Dell, Elizabeth Anna Hart, Eliza Haywood, Evelyn Sharp, Lady Eleanor Smith, Hesba Stretton, Leonara Wodehouse ...

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in early 1918. However, soon after her arrival in France, the
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John Donne was born on the 22nd January 1572 in London, into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England, and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe.His father, also named John, died when he was four, and his mother, Elizabeth Haywood, married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education at ... Read more

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John Donne was born on the 22nd January 1572 in London, into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England, and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe.His father, also named John, died when he was four, and his mother, Elizabeth Haywood, married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education at
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John Donne: Collected Poetry

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Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Read more

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Selected Poems: Donne

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by John Donne, Jocelyn Cinderby ...

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions & Death's Duel brings together John Donne's most searching prose on sickness, mortality, and salvation. Composed during a grave illness in 1623, the Devotions arrange bodily crisis into meditations, expostulations, and prayers, transforming fever into spiritual inquiry. Their style is characteristically metaphysical: learned, dramatic, paradoxical, and intensely ... Read more

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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions & Death's Duel brings together John Donne's most searching prose on sickness, mortality, and salvation. Composed during a grave illness in 1623, the Devotions arrange bodily crisis into meditations, expostulations, and prayers, transforming fever into spiritual inquiry. Their style is characteristically metaphysical: learned, dramatic, paradoxical, and intensely
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The Crowded Street

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Series Book 214 - Virago Modern Classics
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