Jenny Lind (1820-87) was one of Europe's most famous opera singers. Known as the 'Swedish Nightingale', she first rose to prominence in an 1838 performance of Weber's Freischutz. Despite her immense success over the next ten years, she retired from the stage at the age of twenty-nine. Seeking financ[...]

"The Last Hieroglyph" is the fifth of the five volume "Collected Fantasies" series. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. "The Last Hieroglyph" in[...]

This title offers a wide range of texts, both literary and documentary, and that - with the inclusion of Sulpicia and Perpetua - allows students to hear the voices of actual women from the ancient world.[...]