Peter Davidson

Jane Stevenson

This is a complete reexamination of early modern women's verse based on primary research in many archives and libraries. Forty per cent of the material included has never been printed before, but the book also includes lavish selections from the early modern women poets currently studied, such as Aphra Behn. It offers a very thorough, and very complete, conspectus of women's verse production at all social levels, from 1520 to 1700.

An Anthology

Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700)

Seventeenth century royal-in-exile Elizabeth of Bohemia pursues a clandestine relationship with an African prince against the politically unstable and war-threatened climate of the period.

The winter queen

Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and an African prince, works as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados.

The Shadow King

The discovery of a collection of manuscripts leads Oxford don Michael Foxwist and his friends to the conclusion that a black scientist in Barbados may be the rightful ruler of Britain, and Michael falls in love with her after they meet.

The Empress of the Last Days

Published to wide acclaim in England, "Several Deceptions" introduces a new writer with a fresh voice, making her debut with four entertaining novellas.

Several Deceptions

The Life and Times of Federico Da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

The Light of Italy

The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro, humanist, book-collector, patron of celebrated artists and battle-scarred mercenary soldier.

The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

Valeria Tinkler-Villani

Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition focuses on a number of strands in the Gothic. The first is Gothic as a way of looking. Paintings used as reference points, tableaux, or the Hammer Studios' visualizations of Dracula present ways of seeing which are suggestive and allow the interplay of primarily sexual passions. Continuity with the past is a further strand which enables us to explore how the sources of the Gothic are connected with the origin of existence and of history, both individual and general. Here, the Gothic offers a voice for writers whose perceptions do not fit into those of the dominant group, which makes them sensitive both to psychological and social gaps. This leads to an exploration of the very idea of sources and an attempt to bridge the gaps, as can be observed in the variety of epithets used to clarify the ways that Gothic works, ranging from heroic gothic to porno-gothic. This takes the reader to the main core of Gothic: a genre which is always ready to admit new forms of the unreal to enter and change whatever has become mainstream literature, and a way of reading and a mode profoundly affecting the reading experience. The Gothic mode cultivates its wicked ways in literature, working through it as a leavening yeast.

Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition

Exhibited by Candlelight

Set in the Netherlands in the 1640s, this novel tells of the relationship between Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius. They fall in love, marry clandestinely and, secretly, Elizabeth gives birth to a baby boy, seen as a hope for the new age.

Astraea

The Winter Queen

Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to culture between the first century B. C. and the eighteenth century A. D. by studying women's poetry in Latin. Based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, Stevenson recovers an aspect of history often deemed not to exist: women who achieved public recognition in their own time, sometimes to a startling extent. Presenting, often for the first time, the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, all translated and included in a comprehensive finding guide, Women Latin Poets substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, elite culture. The sheer number of female Latin poets will require women's historians to completely re-evaluate the idea that all women had 'no access to education' before the nineteenth century.

Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

Women Latin Poets

Exploring the theme of what it means for a woman to be good, a trio of novellas by the author of Several Deceptions explores the lives of a widower and gardening fanatic who becomes radicalized late in life, a housewife on a murderous mission from God, and an adulterous couple who abandon their spouses for a life together only to discover that they cannot stand each other. Original.

Three Novellas

Good Women

There is a 'lost city' lying to the north of the modern city of Aberdeen. It is Scotland's most compact and least known architectural treasure-house. In this fine Burgh is a pattern-book of Scottish architecture, both vernacular and classical, and offers one of the most significant townscapes in all of Scotland. The conservation area of Old Aberdeen contains specimens of almost every type and size of Scottish building, sweeping picturesque views of the River Don and the 13th-century Brig o'Balgownie, the remains of a magnificent medieval cathedral, the Georgian town-houses of the Highland aristocracy, the highly-distinctive buildings of the ancient University of Aberdeen, atmospheric graveyards, long lawns and vistas, and a cobbled High Street of great distinction.Using their expert knowledge and sumptuous photography, the authors capture the unique cityscape and distinctive past of Old Aberdeen. "The Lost City" details the rich treasures of the burgh, with many illustrations drawn from the University's library and museum collections, a number of which are reproduced for the first time.

Old Aberdeen

The Lost City

Edward Burra never followed the fashion: in the thirties, when modern art was dominated by abstraction and landscape, he painted people; in the sixties, when landscape was completely out of fashion, he started to find it interesting. This is a biography of Edward Burra.

Twentieth-century Eye

Edward Burra

A great treasure lost during the London Blitz is discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer whose greed draws him into a series of crimes leading to murder, in an ingenious first novel that pays tribute to the classic English detective novel, by the author of Several Deceptions. Reprint.

Jane Stevenson

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