Aphra Behn by Mary Beale
Aphra Behn by Mary Beale
“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”-Aphra Behn
Writers in Art: Aphra Behn by Mary Beale
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Writers in Art: Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1922.
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms…”-Anna Akhmatova
Writers in Art: Leo Tolstoy Barefoot by Ilya Repin, 1901
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot by Ilya Repin, 1901.
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot by Ilya Repin, 1901.
Congratulations, Sir John Suckling, You Have One of the Best Writer Names of All Time. Also, Happy Birthday!
Sir John Suckling, poet and inventor of cribbage, was born on 10 February 1609.
Sir John Suckling by Anthony van Dyck, 17th century.
“I prithee send me back my heart,/Since I cannot have thine;/For if from yours you will not part,/Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?”
Happy 140th Birthday, Gertrude Stein: 3 Quotes and a Portrait
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874.
Gertrude Stein by Félix Vallotton, 1907.
“It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.”
Born 152 Years Ago Today: Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born on 24 January 1862. Here she is, through the years:
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May, 1870
Edith Wharton by E.F. Cooper, circa 1889
Edith Wharton, 1907
Edith Wharton, 1915
Edith Wharton, pre-1919
Writers in Art: Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev by Ilya Repin, 1874
Ivan Turgenev by Ilya Repin, 1874
“I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.”-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Writers in Art: Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie in Fur Cape by the writer’s mother, artist Alice Pike Barney.
Natalie in Fur Cape by Alice Pike Barney
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