Aspects of Literature

Tuesday, 27 October 2020

The original Mad Hatter

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  One of the best-known characters in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” is the Mad Hatter, with whom Alice takes tea together with his c...
Friday, 9 October 2020

The Adventure of the Empty House: a Sherlock Holmes story

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  The Adventure of the Empty House was first published in the Strand Magazine in October 1903 and later collected in The Return of Sherlock ...
Friday, 25 September 2020

The Well of Loneliness: a novel by Radclyffe Hall

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  Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was a British poet and novelist who is best remembered for her fifth novel “The Well of Loneliness”, published ...
Thursday, 24 September 2020

Matthew Lewis: author of "The Monk"

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  Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was a writer known to the literary world solely for one novel, The Monk, which appeared in 1796. This no...
Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Alexander Pushkin

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  Alexander Pushkin was, by common consent, Russia’s greatest poet. He was also the heroic ideal of the Romantic poet. He was born in 1799...
Thursday, 10 September 2020

Northanger Abbey, a novel by Jane Austen

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  The bulk of Jane Austen’s novels were revised for publication a considerable time after they were first written, and it is often impossibl...
Thursday, 20 August 2020

Jack and Jill: a nursery rhyme explained

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  Jack and Jill went up the hill T o fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got ...
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