The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the religious policy of Henry VIII. Thomas More was born...
Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritual works in Latin and English and thereby contributed...
Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature to produce a new literature keyed to his age; second,...
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles...
Northern 1, Leonardtown 0 Northern senior right wing Angela Cranford caught a bounce off teammate Angela Cox's shot in the 3A South Region championship Thursday and hit the winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Leonardtown. It was a bounce the Patriots...
Depending on how you look at it, Northeastern and Hartford were either tied for eighth place in America East with Vermont coming into yesterday's game, or tied for last in the 10-team league. It was the Huskies, however, who managed to escape the...
After 37 years, PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" is getting spruced up.The revered anthology series will be split into three mini-seasons, each with its own theme and host — one of whom is Gillian Anderson, already familiar to "Masterpiece" fans for her 2006 performance as Lady Dedlock...
June is the month when everything comes up roses. All over the country, there are rose festivals, rose tours, and rose bushes heavy with blossoms, from Elizabeth Park in West Hartford, Conn., the oldest municipal rose garden in the country, to Portland, Ore., which is...
In the following essay, Schor analyzes Cranford as an experimental woman's narrative concerned with the cultural factors of women as writers and readers.
