Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) by John Singer Sargent, 1889:

Vernon Lee by John Singer Sargent, 1889
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) by John Singer Sargent, 1889:

Vernon Lee by John Singer Sargent, 1889

Henry Miller Quote
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”–Virginia Woolf

Leo Tolstoy Quote
Ophelia by Artur Grottger, 1865:

Ophelia by Artur Grottger, 1865
Ophelia by Frances MacDonald, 1898:

Ophelia by Frances MacDonald, 1898
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Caricature of George Bernard Shaw by Max Beerbohm
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”–George Bernard Shaw (Back to Methuselah)
Ophelia by Marcus Stone, 1888:

Ophelia by Marcus Stone, 1888
“You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”–Ernest Hemingway
Ophelia by John William Waterhouse, 1894:

Ophelia by John William Waterhouse, 1894