- 1. Pop Legend Marianne Faithfull's COVID-19 Recovery Inspired Her New Spoken Word Album "She Walks In Beaut
- (Music)
- ... (Lord Byron), “Ode to a Nightingale” (John Keats), and other classics—collaborating with artists including Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, and Brian Eno. The combination of the literary text, Faithfull’s distinct ...
- Created on 30 April 2021
- 2. The Power of Popular Fiction For Thomas Cromwell And Wolf Hall
- (Living)
- It is fascinating to see the effect that a popular work of historical fiction can have on revising the public’s beliefs about a traditionally reviled figure like Thomas Cromwell. Of course, one ...
- Created on 26 June 2019
- 3. These Carpet Bags Were Essential For Any Victorian Lady's Trave
- (Living)
- Victorian ladies have a reputation for tight-laced respectability, but not all women of the era were content with home and hearth. Some ladies traveled the world, living their lives in far off lands ...
- Created on 12 June 2019
- 4. Literature Meets Litigation: How Charles Dickens’s "Bleak" Telling Of Victorian Law Led To Refor
- (Living)
- ... character of John Jarndyce explains that his case is nothing more than an issue “about a will, and the trusts under a will,” but that: “…the lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment ...
- Created on 04 June 2019
- 5. William Randolph Hearst's Euology For His Beloved Dog Is The Greatest Love Story Of Al
- (Living)
- ... reprinted here with permission. More from BUST How One Harsh Critic Almost Ended John Keats' Career And Possibly His Life How The 19th Century Recognized Their Obligation To Proper Animal Welfare ...
- Created on 29 May 2019
- 6. How One Harsh Critic Almost Ended John Keats' Career And Possibly His Life
- (Books)
- Nearly 195 years after John Keats’ death, even the most non-poetic amongst us can still quote the first line of Endymion: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever…” Yet, upon its release in 1818, Endymion ...
- Created on 22 May 2019
- 7. How Georgian and Regency Literature Shaped Society's View Of Cat
- (Books)
- ... such literary luminaries as Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron, but in general, their primary value lay in their ability to keep the premises free from vermin. It would be some time before cats were viewed ...
- Created on 08 May 2019
- 8. This 19th Century English Poet Laureate Gave His Cats The Most Elaborate Names
- (Living)
- ... another, till the possessor, unconscious of the honour conveyed, used to ‘set up his eyes and look’ in wonderment.” Robert Southey by John James Masquerier, 1799. Southey’s friend, Grosvenor Bedford, ...
- Created on 12 December 2018
