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Josef Sedláček (detail)

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Jane: Did I do that well?

Tom: Very. Very well. 

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In the coach was an old lady dozing in one corner, and at the window, evidently only just awake, sat a young girl holding in both hands the ribbons of a white cap. With a face full of light and thought, full of a subtle, complex inner life, that was remote from Levin, she was gazing beyond him at the glow of the sunrise.

Anna Karenina (2012) based on the 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy

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Care, 1898 by Talbot Hughes (English, 1869–1942)

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Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Barton Cottage

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LITTLE WOMEN (1994) + SPRINGTIME

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Pride and Prejudice (1995)

I think we’ve seen woods and groves enough to satisfy even your enthusiasm for them, Lizzy!

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Charles Edward Perugini 

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favourite female authors | requested by @shirewalker

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video

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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

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Marianela Nunez in A Month in the Country (Royal Ballet)

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After Jacob van Loo (1614–1670)  

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House of Worth ball gown from 1898

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books read in 2019 → orlando by virginia woolf

“Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself”

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Henry Ossawa Tanner painted “The Annunciation” soon after returning to Paris from a trip to Egypt and Palestine in 1897. The son of a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Tanner specialized in religious subjects and wanted to experience the people, culture, and architecture of the Holy Land. Here Tanner has given this familiar narrative unconventional treatment by weaving together ancient and modern, and spiritual and material threads into his compelling image. Mary becomes a relatable young woman, stunned by the apparition that appears before her. “The Annunciation,” 1898, by Henry Ossawa Tanner