She was born on a cold rainy February morning. Even the midwife gasped with horror when the small disfigured child was lifted into the air for its mother to see.The mother didn’t even look at her baby, didn’t even look. She just spoke one word “No”.So the baby was taken to the Angels of Mercy orphanage on Victoria Street. No name, no family. Not a great start by any ones imagination. Victoria doesn't have the best start in life but this soon changes when she is adopted by Mr and Mrs Swan. Will this be a blessing or curse as she finds out who she really is and who exactly her adoptive parents are!
The present edition of Donne's poems grew out of my work as a teacher. In the spring of 1907, just after I had published a small volume on the literature of the early seventeenth century, I was lecturing to a class of Honours students on the 'Metaphysical poets'. They found Donne difficult alike to understand and to appreciate, and accordingly