The creator of Wuthering Heights, and some truly fabulous poetry, was born on 30 July 1818. She was the weird sister, and for that I love her even more.
Emily Brontë by Branwell Brontë
A QUOTE: “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
SOME WORKS: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; Wuthering Heights
A KEEPSAKE:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë at Cynthia’s Attic. $24.00
A great advert for George Bernard Shaw’s play, Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”-Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter, 1912, by Rupert Potter. Born on 28 July 1866.
Rrose Selavy (Marcel Duchamp) by Man Ray, 1921. Born on 28 July 1887.
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”-Marcel Duchamp
The Poor Artist’s Cupboard by Charles Bird King, circa 1815.
The Poor Artist’s Cupboard by Charles Bird King, circa 1815
Vsevolod Garshin by Ilya Repin.
Vsevolod Garshin by Ilya Repin
Nixen (Silberfische), c. 1899, by Gustav Klimt (born 14 July 1862)
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that.”-Woody Guthrie (born 14 July 1912)
This is not really a bookish link, but creativity is creativity: this space is truly awe-inspiring.
Portraits from Brooklyn’s DIY Music and Art Space, the Marker Hotel [courtesy Flavorwire]
The Rocket by Edward Middleton Manigault, 1909. From the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art.
George Sand by Eugene Delacroix, 1838.
George Sand by Eugene Delacroix, 1838.
*Today is George Sand’s birthday. She was born on 1 July 1804.
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