Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.
- Professor of English, University of Surrey
Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved friend.
Margaret Paston’s reference to playing cards in her letter to her husband on Christmas Eve 1459 is the earliest recorded reference to the activity in England.
The show brings the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past to life.
As soon as the teaching term finished, I went into the bookshop to buy some holiday reading. I came away with three books: no tomes these. They were all graphic novels. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s classic…
Speculation is rife as to who will win the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. The prize, which launched as the Orange Prize in 1996, has a distinguished list of former winners, including Kate Grenville…
2014 has been dubbed the Year of Reading Women. This was a response to 2013 figures that showed a huge imbalance between the way male and female authors are treated in reviews. The nominees for the inaugural…
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