LEL: The Forgotten Fairy Queen of the Romantics
By Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman
“She was tall; —a queen might wear Such a proud imperial air;
She was tall, yet when unbound, Swept her...
To Quicken The Beatings of The Heart: Reanimating that Romantic Night...
Surely the most lush and extravagant creative-writing workshop in history played out in June 1816 at Lord Byron’s summer rental on Lake Geneva. It...
Know Your Romantic Man
The men who wrote history’s most luscious movement into being had personalities as big as their characters’. They believed in genius and expected it...
When Annie Oakley Kicked Hearst’s Ass
America’s favorite sharpshooter suffered a sugary makeover in Hollywood and Broadway depictions, which depicted her as someone willing to throw matches and stomach bratty...
Strange Star
Interview by Carolyn Turgeon
Photography by Kyle Cassidy
Strange Star Mary Shelley, A One-Woman Show by Jennifer Summerfield
“Don’t leave it to the men to write my...
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Photography by Courtney Fox
What sweeter balm than nature to soothe the lonely soul? In this poem, Wordsworth gives his readers a Romantic description of...
An Ode to Dark Romanticism
The old woman could be seen as a shadow against skeletal trees that scratched at a threatening sky, for she took solace in late...
Wild Irish Girl
About the Feature image: Engraving of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, 1846, by Samuel Freeman, after John Comerford. Image courtesy The National Photographic Archive, National...
Child of Love and Light
Feature image: Portait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1831, by Samuel John Stump
"I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump...
The Quest
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
You watch from the forest path as she emerges from the heavy oak door of her cottage and ventures straight...