Homer

JK published her translation from the ninth book of Homer 's Odyssey, entitled In Cyclops' Cave.

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

AS drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon 's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope 's Homer translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence .)

AO published a poem which she calls variously an excavation of the Iliad and a homage to Homer : Memorial.

AMC published a work of classical scholarship, Familiar Studies in Homer.

MA published one of the two opening titles in Canongate 's Myths series, a feminist retelling of Homer 's Odyssey entitled The Penelopiad, The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.

Nobody was a name famously used for himself by Homer 's Odysseus.

ATG later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects including a prequel to Homer 's Iliad. Like Frances Burney , she tried to...

AD tackled the summit of classical translation with her French rendering of Homer 's Iliad: L'Iliade d'Homère, traduite en françois avec des remarques.

AD replied with Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût (offically approved on this day) to the critique of her L'Iliade d'Homère by Antoine Houdart de La Motte in his French verse adaptation and his...

MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.

AD further pursued her defence both of Homer himself and of her treatment of him, in her expanded and revised second edition of her Iliad translation in 1719. There, in Quelques Réflexions sur la Préface...

CBR published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, which relates a modern woman to the Homeric , or Æschylean , Trojan prophet Cassandra.

AD published Journey to Ithaca, a novel classified by the American Library of Congress as religious fiction: its title alludes to the hero's homeward journey in Homer 's Odyssey.

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...