Thomas Hardy’s career as an architect profoundly shaped his literary imagination. This pioneering study explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of his engagement with architecture, from the symbolic weight of ruins to memory and desire in built form.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her Circle
In Victorian Florence, women forbidden education or the vote used pens and scalpels. They educated themselves and each other with novels, poems and sculptures, fighting in solidarity for the liberation of slaves, children, and nations, whose oppression mirrored their own.