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Daily Diversion #284: The Moon and Sixpence
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[Alternative Muses] Writerly Style: The Sharp Dressing Nancy Cunard
Nancy Cunard-poet, publisher, and activist-was famously fashion-forward. In this photo, she looks like she could step out of the current issue of any high fashion magazine.
Nancy Cunard, looking quite editorial.
That sleek belted-jacket is everything, with the statement necklace and her signature piled-on bracelets both coming in a close second.
Perfection.
[Writers in Art] Happy Birthday, Friedrich!
Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759:
Friedrich Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz, 1793 or 1794.
Three Quotes in Honor of Anne Sexton’s Birthday
Poet Anne Sexton was born on 9 November 1928.
- “I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
- “Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
- “Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don’t live by them at all. That’s what writers are like…you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”-Henry Miller
Writers in Art: Caroline Norton by Sir George Hayter
Caroline Norton by Sir George Hayter, 1832.
October Round-Up: Eleven Interesting Posts
- [Alternative Muses] Going and Coming Mashup: William Morris/Thomas Wolfe
- Ted Hughes Quote
- Goodbye, Cocteau!
- [Book Nerd Films] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-Official Trailer #1
- [Intermezzo] Reading in October
- Virginia Woolf: A Few Words on a Writer’s Diary [with More to Come Later]
- Because I’m Really “Feeling” This Gwen John Painting Today
- Three Chapters: Gertrude Stein
- Off Topic Post: Composers
- Because I Love This Photo of
- The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Wilkie Collins
Anarchist Poet Lola Ridge
I love her intelligence and expressiveness in this photo.
Lola Ridge
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Wilkie Collins
- Name: Wilkie Collins
- D/O/B: 8 January 1824
- Member Since: 1871
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Director and star of the club’s amateur theatricals
- Hobbies: Socializing with Charles Dickens; acting; painting
Wilkie Collins by Frederick Waddy, 1872.
Writers in Art: Dylan Thomas by Jessica Dismorr
Dylan Thomas was born on 27 October 1914:
Dylan Thomas by Jessica Dismorr, 1935.
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