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Emily Brontë: a fantasy-prone personality
Emily Brontë: a fantasy-prone personality? More than a quarter of a century has passed since a couple of psychologists named Theodore X. Barber and Sheryl Wilson first published their important study...
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Erotic secrets of Lord Byron’s tomb
Byron in death, Greece, spring 1824. It was hot and dusty in the crypt, and it had been hard work breaking into it. Now the vicar had gone, along with his invited guests, to take his supper. The...
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William Shakespeare: gangster
The “Chandos Portrait” of Shakespeare–dating to c.1600 and one of only two that may have been painted from life–is thought to be the work of the playwright’s “intimate friend” John Taylor of the...
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The Breton Bluebeard
“Widower Bluebeard and the Red Key” – a painting from Cassia Lupo’s wonderful series “Fables and myths.” Reproduced with permission and grateful thanks. For very nearly all its course, the Blavet is a...
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