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Voices In Time

1879 | Utterden

For Better or Worse

Anthony Trollope speaks now instead of holding his peace.More

Voices In Time

1905 | New York City

Conspicuous Consumption

Edith Wharton follows the money.More

Voices In Time

1910 | London

Free the Press

“Let in the light!” says W.T. Stead.More

Voices In Time

1818 | Paris

Biding Time

Balzac stages an intervention.More

Voices In Time

1796 | Boston

Accruing Interest

Judith Sargent Murray on the power of a single scribbler.More

Voices In Time

c. 320 BC | Athens

Lines of Sight

Theophrastus on how a story spreads.More

Voices In Time

1777 | London

Real Housewives of the Eighteenth Century

The insults unfurl at Lady Sneerwell’s house.More

Voices In Time

1664 | Paris

Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All

Molière on the glory of not getting caught.More

Voices In Time

c. 1673 | Bath

Apology Tour

Joseph Glanvill on how to get a damned spot out.More

Voices In Time

1813 | Derbyshire

Wretched, Wretched Mistake

Jane Austen sets off a family freak-out.More

Voices In Time

c. 600 BC | Greece

Aesop’s Nextdoor

Would you be their neighbor?More

Voices In Time

c. 205 | Carthage

Fie on the Beholder

Tertullian pleads for modesty.More

Voices In Time

1828 | London

Noxious Fumes

William Hazlitt on the “trump of ill fame.”More

Voices In Time

1918 | Eastwold

Patriot Act

Rose Allatini navigates the home front.More

Voices In Time

1673 | London

Immodest Proposal

The earl of Rochester sees an assignation.More

Voices In Time

1802 | Richmond, VA

Revealed Truths

James Thomson Callender wants to talk about Sally Hemings.More

Voices In Time

1855 | London

Relationship Goals

George Eliot defends her life.More

Voices In Time

1896 | Reading

Oscar Wilde Pleads His Case

When has a mind been punished enough?More

Voices In Time

1883 | Moscow

Overcorrection

Anton Chekhov reckons with the evil tongue.More

Voices In Time

1768 | London

False Negatives

William Blackstone on slander.More

Voices In Time

324 BC | Athens

Mixed Motives

Plutarch on the dangers of a public career.More

Voices In Time

1872 | Washington, DC

First in War, First in Nepotism

Charles Sumner decries “a president who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite.”More

Voices In Time

1873 | Hartford, CT

Opinion Page

Mark Twain would like a little less freedom in his press.More

Voices In Time

1906 | Hawarden

Gains Ill-Gotten

E.D. Morel excoriates King Leopold.More

Voices In Time

1604 | Vienna

What Man Thou Art

Isabella looks for someone who will believe her.More

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