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By Alana Cottey Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall to a wealthy English household, but would later be known as John to friends and lovers. Her novel Adam’s Breed (1926) received the Prix Femina and James Tait Black Prize, yet real fame came with the banning of The Well of Loneliness upon its publication […]


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By Ruby Tipple The V&A’s Marie Antoinette Style exhibition starts with a portrait of the young queen grinning wryly at its viewer. Beneath it sits her mother’s advice in bold black text, given in April 1770, just one month before the fourteen-year-old Marie would be married to the future (and final) French King, Louis XVI. […]


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By Iona Mandal When Nellie Bly walked through the doors of the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in 1887, she was entering the machinery of a system that had long relied on secrecy to maintain its authority. Ten Days in a Madhouse (1887) is remembered today as a pioneering work of investigative journalism, functioning […]


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By Andrea Obholzer In The Common Reader (1925), Virginia Woolf wrote ‘The Peasants are the greatsanctuary of sanity […] when they disappear, there is no hope for the race.’ Whatdid Virginia Woolf know of common people? Apart from her stint teaching at MorleyCollege between 1905-1907 and her relationships with her servants, how manycommon people did […]


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By Shelly Foreshaw Brookes One of the most widely used Arabic dictionaries today has an unsettling origin: it was commissioned under Hitler’s regime, to facilitate the accurate translation of Mein Kampf (1925) and to disseminate Nazi propaganda around the Arab world. Embedded in its history is an unsettling paradox—the foundational contributions of a brilliant Jewish […]


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