An Independent Woman Before Her Time: Hindle Wakes*
*The title’s double entendre refers both to social awakening in the Lancashire town of Hindle and to “Wakes Week,” the seven to ten [...]
Jeremy Beck
The Grave Diggers’s Lullaby – A Crackerjack Tale of Survival
Though time and place are undetermined, we’re on familiar terrain. The shack is poor by any standard: a basin serves as sink, there’s [...]
She Stoops To Conquer – (And Does)
Playwright Oliver Goldsmith overcame ugliness, lack of breeding, and alcoholic behavior (or sidestepped it) to become a successful writer [...]
Widowers’ Houses – An 1800s Moral Quandary That Resonates Still
People who live in glass houses have no right to throw stones. But, on my honor, I never knew that my house was a glass one until you [...]
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