There are around 7 million carers in the UK alone ¿ unpaid people who look after someone who need...

Engaged, W.S. Gilbert's most popular stage work after the comic operas he produced in collaborati...

In 1878 Gustave Flaubert looked on in horror as his publisher picked up a manuscript from the mys...

The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde's most popular play ¿ since its first perf...

In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on th...

In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda...

Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protag...

Waiting for Music is the fifth collection of poetry from the acclaimed writer Simon Mundy. A grea...

Hannah Snell's story begins with tragedy. In 1744 she married James Summs, a Dutch seaman. Soon a...

Salomé, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retel...

'I couldn't sleep that night; our conversation was like a trapped bird flying around inside my he...

The life of fifteenth-century heroine Joan of Arc is the stuff of legend, and her cruel death (bu...