
Sound familiar? [Image courtesy Writers Write]

Sound familiar? [Image courtesy Writers Write]
Josephine Turpin Washington. What a fascinating, mostly forgotten woman.

Josephine Turpin Washington, 1891, by Irving Garland Penn.
100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels [courtesy The Toast]*
Do hurry back and share your favourite(s) in the comments section.
*Eighteenth-Century novels are the best.

Billie Burke (born 7 August 1884) in Overland Monthly, February 1909
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”-Rabindranath Tagore (died 7 August 1941)

Naughty Chuck, caught sleeping in my husband’s shirt drawer.
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”-James Herriot, James Herriot’s Cat Stories

Knut Hamsun Quote

Knut Hamsun, circa 1890
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and beloved of Mary, was born on 4 August 1792:

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Amelia Curran, 1819
“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”-Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier:

The Cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier
Harper’s, August 1897:

Harper’s, August 1897. Edward Penfield.

Eudora Welty Quote