Everyone was a child once, even serious wordsmiths. Let’s get started:
A poised Gertrude Stein:
Gertrude Stein at three
An uncomfortable looking Franz Kafka:
Franz Kafka
Images of Renowned Authors as Children, Part Two
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[Book Nerd Art] Captain Jinks, Hero by Ernest Crosby
Captain Jinks, Hero by Ernest Crosby. 1902. Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard.
Another Year Has Passed and You Still Look Like This
When you died on 11 February 1963, my mom was nine years old. My grandmother was your age: thirty. She’s eighty-one now, but to all of the world you still look like this:
Sylvia Plath.
How sad.
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Calling All Brontë Sisters Fans…
You’ll want to read this.
Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells by Charlotte Brontë [courtesy Project Gutenberg]
It is a quick and interesting read.
The Brontë Sisters by Branwell Brontë.
[Alternative Muses] A Tip-Top Birthday Trio: Dickens, Ingalls Wilder, Lewis
The literary Gods certainly favoured the 7th of February, at least during the 19th century. Charles Dickens, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Sinclair Lewis were born on that day. Impressive, right?
Charles Dickens and His Characters by William Holbrook Beard. Birth year: 1812.
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder. Birth year: 1867.
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
Sinclair Lewis, 1914. Birth year: 1885.
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes
The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes
The Center of Science and Industry [COSI] in my hometown of Columbus is the second stop for this fabulous interactive Holmes experience. It runs 8 February-1 September.
Does this look amazing or does this look amazing? Your call. I am going next month. I’ll be sure to do a follow-up post!
A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle, with artwork by David Henry Friston. Beeton’s Christmas Annual, December 1887.
Truman Capote Quote
Truman Capote Quote
A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books New Arrivals Winter 2014
- Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings. $17.95.
- Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s by Stephen Gundle. $5.98.
- The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life by David Lawday. $4.98.
- Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion by Jean H. Baker. $5.98.
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. $5.98.
- Nell Gwynn: Mistress to a King by Charles Beauclerk. $6.98.
- A Brief History of Robin Hood: The True History Behind the Legend by Nigel Cawthorne. $4.98. Continue reading
Happy 140th Birthday, Gertrude Stein: 3 Quotes and a Portrait
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874.
Gertrude Stein by Félix Vallotton, 1907.
“It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.”
Writers in Art: George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw by Edmund S. Valtman, 1964.
George Bernard Shaw by Edmund S. Valtman, 1964.
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