This paper aims to examine the eighteenth-century British poet, Mary Steele’s “Sonnet, 1795” in terms of recuperative power act writing and relationship between semiotic symbolic. The study suggests that sonnet serves as poetic testament symbolic real life historical author who manage her emotional suffering mental agony via therapeutic writing. female has a confrontation with what is be repres...

have been experiencing a veritable boom in recent years. Since the turn of the millennium, the lives of Frida Kahlo, Sylvia Plath, Murasaki Shikibu, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Austen, Gwen John – to name just a few – have been made subjects of imaginative re-tellings, some of them in multiple versions. These biofictions are the product of both biographical scholarship and autho...