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Category Archives: Women writers
“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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Violet Jessop ~ Miss Unsinkable
Day 363 of Colourisation Project – May 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Lucky or unlucky? Either way she lived to tell the story through her compelling memoirs titled, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, Women, Women writers, World War 1
Tagged HMHS Britannic, HMS Hawke, Loredana Crupi, Miss Unsinkable, OpusLoredana, Red Star Line, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, Titanic, Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of a Stewardess, Violet Jessop, White Star Line
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Mad-Hatter Hedda Hopper
Day 360 of Colourisation Project – May 2 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Let’s face it, Hollywood would be bland without its gossip columnists. There have been many; Perez … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women writers
Tagged Citizen Kane (1941), From Under My Hat, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, Loredana Crupi, OpusLoredana, Perez Hilton, Sheilah Graham, The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Walter Winchell
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Beatrice Webb ~ Social Reformer
Day 358 of Colourisation Project – April 30 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. A socialist utopian, she coined the term “collective bargaining.” She was at the core of the … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, Women, Women in Politics, Women writers
Tagged Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Industrial Democracy (1897), Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?(1935), Sydney Webb, The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain, The History of Trade Unionism (1894)
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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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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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Mysterious Dorothy L Sayers
Day 224 of Colourisation Project – December 17 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Renowned for her pioneering and entertaining crime novels, Dorothy L. Sayers was a dominant force in … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Opus Loredana, Photography, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Detective Club, Divina Commedia, Dorothy L Sayers, Edgar Allen Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Wilkie Collins
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Emily Dickinson – A Poet in Private
Day 217 of Colourisation Project – December 10 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. “Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Opus Loredana, Photography, Poetry, USA, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Amherst, Emily Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Lavinia Dickinson, Loredana Crupi, Massachusetts, Opus Loredana, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Comrade Katharine Susannah Prichard
Day 211 of Colourisation Project – December 4 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born this day, 4 December in 1883, Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author, journalist, political … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Photography, Women, Women in Literature, Women writers
Tagged Australia, Communist Party, Coonardoo (1929), Katharine Prichard, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Loredana Crupi, Ric Throssell, The Child of the Hurricane, Working Bullocks (1926)
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