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.
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.
This gallery contains 12 photos.
The Childhood Art of Famous Authors [courtesy Flavorwire]
Does any of your childhood art survive?
Lytton Strachey organized his books from Z-A. What fun, I say! I love the peculiar precision of this arrangement, and have adopted its use.

Starting with Zola

Stein-Joyce

Hesse-Dickens
How do you arrange your books?
“In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.”-Lytton Strachey
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
Duncan has agreed to sit here and look cute whilst I continue my unpacking and cleaning ways.

Cat watching and book guarding!
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”-Mark Twain
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”-Walt Whitman
The 7 Best Graphic Adaptations of Classic Literature [courtesy Barnes & Noble]
King Lear for the win, please. Do you have a favourite?
“I lived to write, and wrote to live.”-Samuel Rogers

View from the porch of our new house.
“I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventative of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.”-Mark Twain
Natalie in Fur Cape by the writer’s mother, artist Alice Pike Barney.

Natalie in Fur Cape by Alice Pike Barney