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Category Archives: Women in Literature
“Beauty is in The Eye of The Gazer.” ― Charlotte Brontë
Gertrude Stein once said, “I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.” Certainly that is the case with today’s subject, Charlotte Brontë. There’s a good reason for this. We know from personal letters that … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Opus Loredana, United Kingdom, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Anne Brontë, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë, Edward VII, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Brontë, George Richmond, Gertrude Stein, Jane Eyre, John Ruskin, Opus Loredana, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, William Blake
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Daphne du Maurier ~ Master of Suspense
Day 347 of Colourisation Project – April 19 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. As a young woman of 24, negotiating the alleyways of Venice, I recall spooking myself out, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Opus Loredana, Photography, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Daphne du Maurier, Don’t look Now (1971), Donna Leon, du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek (1941), Growing Pains – the Shaping of a Writer (1977), Jamaica Inn (1936), Loredana Crupi, Murder at La Fenice, My Cousin Rachel (1951), Opus Loredana, Piazza San Marco, Rebecca (1938), The Birds (1952), The Breaking Point, Venice
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The Amorous Vita Sackville-West
Day 306 of Colourisation Project – March 9 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. English poet, novelist and horticulturalist, Vita Sackville-West was as prolific a writer as she was a … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Alice Keppel, Downton Abbey, Evelyn Irons, Gwen St Aubyn, Harold Nicolson, Lionel Sackville-West, Loredana Crupi, Sissinghurst Castle, Violet Trefusis, Virginia woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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Pearl (Buck) of the Orient
Day 303 of Colourisation Project – March 6 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. The first adult novel I ever read was Pearl S. Buck‘s best selling classic, The Good … Continue reading
Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Stein is…
Day 272 of Colourisation Project – February 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born in Pennsylvania, this day, February 3, 1874, Gertrude Stein was an American expatriate novelist, poet, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, Poetry, USA, Women, Women in Literature
Tagged Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, Alice B. Toklas, Carl Van Vechten, Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Isadora Duncan, John Dos Passos, Loredana Crupi, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, Sherwood Anderson, T. S. Eliot, Waldo Peirce
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Virginia Woolf’s Last Letter
Day 263 of Colourisation Project – January 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s subject for colourisation is the most iconic likeness of Virginia Woolf, who was born this … Continue reading
Keeping Up with Edith Wharton
Day 262 of Colourisation Project – January 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born into the wealth and privilege of a distinguished and long-established New York family, Edith Newbold … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Architecture, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Literature
Tagged Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Italian Villas and Their Gardens, Le Pavillon Colombe, Loredana Crupi, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The Decoration of Houses (1897), The House of Mirth
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Dorothea Mackellar’s Country
Day 252 of Colourisation Project – January 14 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born in 1885, Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer, best remembered for her … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, Women, Women in Literature
Tagged Dorothea Mackellar, Loredana Crupi, My Country
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Beatrix Potter – Conservationist Storyteller
Day 229 of Colourisation Project – December 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Seventy-one years ago on this day, 22 December in 1943, Helen Beatrix Potter, one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Beatrix Potter, Loredana Crupi, The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906), The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904), The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906), The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905), The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903), The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905), The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)
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