“To read it is an education in psychology.”

Seeing intimate life-writing as a route to understanding the mind · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Art
• Truth

“The representative poems of the world seem to body forth the view of Nature, which is essentially the product of their age and nation.”

Linking poetic visions of nature to the intellectual climate that produces them · Lecture, Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's (1886)

• Nature
• Poetry
• Time

“Indeed, most of our knowledge comes to us second-hand, through the medium of men with their cut-and-dried theories as to what women are or ought to be.”

Challenging inherited theories about women shaped largely by male observers · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Freedom
• Truth