The assessment of Thomas Dunn English's career has changed significantly from the period of his greatest productivity, to the time of his death, to the present day. Modern students remember English, if at all, as an editor of failed journals and the...

Debate continues over the proper roles of meaning and accuracy in the translation of literature into another language. The novels of German author Thomas Mann often suffered under English translators' interpretations or outright errors, which created effects Mann did not intend. Some passages are...

The eminent English cabinetmakers Gillows of Lancaster and London exported large quantities of furniture to the West Indies during the eighteenth century, and some of this furniture was probably reexported to North America through the colonial coastal trade. References to furniture exported by...