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What would it take to fake a sonnet by the French Renaissance poet Louise Lab茅?
2 July 2025
Timothy Chesters weighs in on the controversy over the authorship of the Oeuvres de Louise Lab茅 Lyonnaise (1555). Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Lab茅鈥檚 lover, forged her poems as a joke. Since then...
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland
15 June 2025
With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women鈥檚 manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...
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