‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot
Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers
By Sam Jones
Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”
Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form
Why Was Joan of Arc Executed in 1431?
"In 1431, Joan of Arc, the young rebel who helped Charles VII claim the French throne, was executed as a heretic. Why?"
The Hidden History of Women Game Designers
Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.
By: Carmel Raz
A history of punctuation
How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling
by Florence Hazrat
Kafka becomes more accessible
Soon the first English Kafka books will enter the US public domain. The Castle, one of several Kafka works translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, gets there in 17 days.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
"I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth."
Letters of Jane Austen
Happy birthday Jane Austen, born #OTD 250 years ago!!
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Guillaume Apollinaire’s Trailblazing Caligrams, 1913
The form is part of the message in French writer Guillaume Apollinaire's "caligrams", in which the shape of the words on the page creates meaning.
by Paul Sorene
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