Explore the new additions to our library: The true history of the Jacobites of Egypt, Lybia, Nubia by Barbatus, Josephus Abudacnus, was first published in 1675 (go to Books, select the author). It is thought to have been written between…
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The Kings last wife contrived to survive him, but with difficulty effected it.
In her book “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” (https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/russ-how-to-suppress-womens-writing), Joanna Russ discusses methods that society uses to undermine the work of women writers. The excerpts that follow below describe “some unpleasant possibilities” (Joanna Russ’ words) of the kinds of treatment…
Anne Askew and Catherine Parr; John Foxe and David Hume
A tragic story links our today’s additions to the Library – the works of Anne Askew, Catherine Parr, John Foxe and David Hume. Anne Askew and Catherine Parr are two writers contemporaries who each have a distinction of being the…