The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 30, No. 1 (AUTUMN 1968), pp. 25-38 (16 pages) Frank Harris (1854-1931) Irish-born American editor, novelist, polemicist, and literary gadfly rose to ...

The flames consume a woman torn between love and her divine mission. Inspired by Schiller’s tragedy, Tchaikovsky wrote The Maid of Orleans about the famous French heroine between 1878 and 1879.