Valentine’s Day in literature: sickeningly sweet or comically cruel?

Edie Gilmour explores the often funny and tragic portrayal of Valentine’s Day in literature.

A lost generation: the literary landscape of 1920s Paris

Edie Gilmour explores the community of writers, or ‘Lost Generation’, living in Paris in the 1920s.

Angela Carter’s subversive mythology

The tragedy of E. M. Forster’s concealed homosexuality

The power of Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’

The evolution of feminist science fiction

Phillis Wheatley: the first African American poet to be published

Scaring the patriarchy: the literary legacy of the witch