Louisa May Alcott

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Isabella Valancy Crawford was born in Dublin in 1850.
The Irish woman who became Canada’s first major poet

Isabella Vlancy Crawford was born in Dublin in 1850. Despite obscurity in her own lifetime, she is now recognised as a pioneer of Canadian poetry. We(...)

Maudie: Ethan Hawke in Aisling Walsh’s new film
Ethan Hawke: ‘It’s a dance with fire. I saw that with River’s death'

Time is always at our elbow. Ethan Hawke, who has changed little in 30 years, is at the Soho Hotel to talk about his role in Aisling Walsh’s irresist(...)

Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Louis Monier/Getty Images
A bone to pick with Beckett – An Irishman’s Diary about misuse of the word ‘literally’

Here at the Society for the Preservation of “Literally” as an Adverb of Truth (SPLAT), we were called upon recently to investigate a case involving th(...)

JK Rowling
Write on, sister: 20 great books by women
  • Books
  • August 18, 2014, 12:20

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (1963) Published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963, Sylvia Plath’s only novel tells the story of Esther Gre(...)

I’m not in a book club, but if I was . . .

As a child I spent great swathes of time, when I could have been outside running amok among the privet hedges and washing lines in my Crimplene slacks(...)