Boadicea

More recently, she says, films written with her half-brother have had serious subjects—Boadicea , or the SAS , or the Second Coming—but have never actually been made.

Both the Roman, military, and the tribal, bronze-age worlds are thoroughly masculinist. Roman women do not appear; the tradition-bound lives of British women are separate, having little in common with those of their men. Each...

These poems abandon AR 's former regular metres for free verse, as they abandon decorum for outspoken personal expression about the struggle necessary to be a thinking woman rather than a good girl.

In On the Welsh Language, KP praises the early British queen Boadicea and anticipates something of the tone of Thomas Gray 's The Bard. It is unlikely that she learned Welsh (though her...

John Ruskin 's severe censure of a painting intended as her masterpiece (a heroic depiction of Boadiceabrooding over her wrongs, drawn from Barbara Leigh Smith ) may have impelled AMH to give up exhibiting her work.

RS structured a historical novel for young people in a new manner for her in The Capricorn Bracelet, a saga of six generations of an originally Roman family in the Roman colony of Britannia...

For the first time RS chose a woman as her central hero-figure in Song for a Dark Queen, about Boudicca or Boadicea , queen of the Iceni, who was one of the most successful...

The Lady's Museum is rich in illustrations (and boasts one musical score). Its frontispiece (copied by The Lady's Magazine of 1789) shows a studious woman from whom Cupid's dart is being deflected. Education is...

This book (which covers the span from the queen of its title to the recent or current regimes of Margaret Thatcher , Golda Meir , and Indira Gandhi ) looks historically at the inbuilt contradictions...