Elinor Glyn, who forever changed the popular culture landscape by ballyhooing the concept of It, was born on 17 October 1864.
Elinor Glyn
A QUOTE: “Everything that I write will be signed with my name.”
SOME WORKS: Beyond the Rocks; Three Weeks; Three Things; Love’s Blindness; ‘It’ and Other Stories
A KEEPSAKE:
Elinor Glyn’s Man and Maid Movie Still Book at Backwoods Treasure Antiques. $26.95
20 Photos of Famous Authors in Awesome Costumes [COURTESY FLAVORWIRE]
Be sure to stop back here and tell us your favourite! Check out a very young Elsa Lanchester in the image with Evelyn Waugh. She is enchanting!
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”-Katherine Mansfield
“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”-Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (aka, KathMans) was born on 14th October 1888.
Katherine Mansfield by Anne Estelle Rice, 1918.
“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”-Katherine Mansfield
The newest issue ofThe Paperbook Collective came out yesterday. It is a wonderful on-line magazine/hard copy ‘zine out of Australia. My short story Beyond the Boneyard Gate is featured on pages forty-one and forty-two. I hope you can take a few minutes to check it, and the rest of the contents, out. It’s well worth your time, I promise!
FUN FACT: I was moved to write this story after seeing, and being thoroughly disturbed by, one of my blogging friend Jennifer’s photos. Her blog of fabulous photography is here.
Miss Auras by Sir John Lavery, 1900.
Miss Auras by Sir John Lavery, circa 1900.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”-Oscar Wilde
Desk. Thurber House. Columbus.
BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS: THE ODDEST ODD JOBS OF 10 LITERARY GREATS [COURTESY WRITER’S DIGEST]
The Unicorn in the Garden. Columbus.
You can read the James Thurber story here.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 