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Category Archives: Women
“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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The Mother of All Mothers
She “wanted it to be a holy day, a day of sentiment, not profit,” dismissing greeting cards as “a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write.” First celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Mother & Child, Opus Loredana, Photography, USA, Women
Tagged Loredana Crupi, Luciano Pavarotti, Mother's Day, Opus Loredana, Ricky Martin
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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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Carolyn Jones’ Crowning Glory
Day 356 of Colourisation Project – April 28 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. You may not immediately recognise today’s colourisation subject with her bob haircut. Texan born actress, Carolyn … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Hollywood, Television, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV
Tagged Batman, Carolyn Jones, House of Wax (1953) The War of the Worlds (1953), Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Roots (1977), The Addams Family, The Bachelor Party (1957), The Seven Year Itch (1955), The Tender Trap (1955), The Turning Point (1952), Wonder Woman
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Henri La Fontaine ~ A Woman’s Man
Day 350 of Colourisation Project – April 22 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Henri La Fontaine was of a rare enlightened breed; a male champion of women at a … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Law, suffrage, Women
Tagged Henri La Fontaine, Léonie La Fontaine, Loredana Crupi, Nobel Peace Prize, Opus Loredana
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Caresse Crosby ~ An Uplifting Story
Day 348 of Colourisation Project – April 20 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. The modern day bra was borne out of … Continue reading
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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Jessie Street ~ Australian Activist Ahead of Her Time
Day 346 of Colourisation Project – April 18 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. She was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945; … Continue reading