The Temple Of Fame: A Vision

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Sappho to Phaon, in Ovid's Epistles, Translated by Several Hands (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1712).

Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132 and by the middle of the C13 it was one of the richest religious houses in England. Following the Dissolution the buildings and some of the land was sold to Richard Gresham who later sold them to Stephen Proctor. After several changes of ownership the Abbey ruins and Fountains Hall were acquired by the Messenger family who sold them to William Aislabie (c 1700-81), owner of the adjacent estate of Studley Royal, in 1767. Douglas Brooks-Davies, Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night: A Study in Emotional Jacobitism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985). Transportation to Walhalla from the UNESCO-listed old town of Regensburg is easy with good bus connections as well as half-day excursions on Danube River pleasure boats. Walhalla is close to the autobahn A3 making it a great stop when traveling in the Danube Valley in Eastern Bavaria between Passau and Nuremberg (Nürnberg).Chaucer makes reference to Herostratus [13] in The House of Fame: "I am that ylke shrewe, ywis, / That brende the temple of Ysidis / In Athenes, loo, that citee." / "And wherfor didest thou so?" quod she. / "By my thrift," quod he, "madame, / I wolde fayn han had a fame, / As other folk hadde in the toun..." [14] Thomas R. Edwards, This Dark Estate: A Reading of Pope (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963).

Smith, William, ed. (1867). "Herostratus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol.II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p.439.There has been no other woman like Emmeline Pankhurst,” reminisced Rebecca West in 1933, five years after the death of England’s most famoussuffragette: Purvis quotes historian Joan Beaumont as pointing out that “recent feminist writers have projected their own alignment with anti-imperialism and anti-militarism onto the past, seeing imperialism and militarism as incompatible with feminism when this was not so for many women in the First World War.” Sylvia and many of her socialist allies took a pacifist line and were horrified when Mrs. Pankhurst, like Rebecca West, believed that her country and British culture came first, especially in war. While it is true that the WSPU ceased all agitation for the vote during the war, its leader hardly reneged on fighting for a greater role for women in society. She wanted them working in the munitions factories, for example, saying in late January 1915: “I’m not nursing soldiers. There are so many others to do that. . .it’s no more to be expected that our organisers should now necessarily take to knitting and nursing than that Mr. Asquith should set his Ministers to making Army boots and uniforms.” Yet she found it was the trade unionists who objected to women in the factories, fearing their lower pay for females would deprive the male breadwinner of hisjob.