“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”-C.S. Lewis
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
I used my birthday as an excuse to buy a lot of books. I thought about posting a photo of them all together, but did not want to come across as word-greedy (which I totally am). Here is one to get the party started. I love the emotionally compartmentalized, yet aesthetically vivid, cover.
Some works by Henrik Ibsen, my second favourite playwright.
Hilaire Belloc was born on July 27, 1870.
Hilaire Belloc
QUOTE: “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
SOME WORKS: The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts; Sussex; The Historic Thames; Marie Antoinette; The Servile State; Mr. Belloc Still Objects
A KEEPSAKE:
Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses at Vintage in Michigan. $15.00
Happy Birthday to Franz Kafka! Here he is, looking suitably, well, Kafkaesque.
Franz Kafka
QUOTE: “Books are a narcotic.”
SOME WORKS: Amerika; The Trial; The Castle; A Country Doctor; The Metamorphosis; The Village Schoolmaster; Letters to Felice
A KEEPSAKE:
Franz Kafka Tote Bag by Little Shop of Joy. $5.00
Elizabeth Barrett Browning died on 29 June 1861. Here she is, looking intense.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, September 1859
QUOTE: “Who so loves believes the impossible.”
SOME WORKS: The Seraphim, and Other Poems; Casa Guidi Windows; Aurora Leigh; Poems Before Congress; Last Poems.
A KEEPSAKE:
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Earrings by Persephone. $24.00
James M. Barrie, prolific Scottish playwright and the father of Peter Pan and Wendy, died on 19th June 1937. He was 77. Here he is, looking serious and melancholy.
James M. Barrie, 1901
QUOTE: “The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
SOME WORKS: The Little Minister; Quality Street; The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; Alice Sit-by-the-Fire; What Every Woman Knows; A Kiss for Cinderella; The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
A KEEPSAKE:
Crichton’s Island, Postcard Map of James M. Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton by Craig Wetzel. $3.00
Anne Brontë, the forgotten sister, died on 28 May 1849. She was 29. Her novels are quite entertaining, so there is really no excuse for the shadowy, reclusive life of her fame.
The Sisters Brontë by their brother Branwell Brontë. Anne is on the left.
QUOTE: “My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”-Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
WORKS: Agnes Grey; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A KEEPSAKE:
Anne Brontë Doll Miniature by Uneek Doll Designs. $41.00
*I was too busy yesterday to compose this post. At around 10:00 P.M. I thought of rushing it out, but then decided that publishing it a day late would be all too appropriate.
The well-groomed Samuel Pepys died on 26 May 1703. He was seventy.
Samuel Pepys, 1666.
QUOTE: “But me thought is lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.”
KNOWN FOR: His incredibly diary.
A KEEPSAKE:
Samuel Pepys’ Diary at Lady Frans Library. $19.00
Charles Bukowski Unisex T-Shirt by PunkNRockPlus. $14.52
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Quote Charm by The White Space. $13.95
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