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Eleanor has just come of age but struggles to leave her childhood fantasy dream world in the toy box with her other memories. Just engaged and about to leave home for the first time, she is troubled by the bleak events in her world of escapism. They cause her to doubt reality and force damaging wedges into the slightest cracks that appear in her relationships. Her religious upbringing is the strongest weapon she has to strengthen her weakness. Unfortunately, the evil that has crept into the widest crack has used her beliefs and her goodness as the target for its campaign of manipulation. From...

Originally published in 1911, this book was the fifth volume in the Girton College Studies series. It provides a highly informative analysis of Marcus Cornelius Fronto's prominent and varied role in Roman society, seeking to counteract some of the damage inflicted on his critical reputation during the hundred years preceding publication. Whilst discussion of Fronto's key influence in relation to Latin literature, grammar and rhetoric lies at the core of the text, there are also notable chapters on aspects of his character and key relationships with figures such as Marcus Aurelius. An appendix...