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And if it was for any sort of a fine handsome woman, but for a little fistful of a woman like Kitty Keary, that’s not four feet high hardly, and not three teeth in her head unless she got new ones!

Lady Gregory • Seven Short Plays

Against Interpretation

The text critiques the overemphasis on interpreting art's content, advocating for an appreciation of form and sensory experience, and suggesting a shift from content-driven analysis to a focus on art's immediate impact.

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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)

Rembrandt would have painted her with pleasure, and would have made her broad features look out of the canvas with intelligent honesty. For honesty, truth-telling fairness, was Mary’s reigning virtue: she neither tried to create illusions, nor indulged in them for her own behoof, and when she was in a good mood she had humour enough in her to laugh

Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch

I met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. She had done an art course at the Royal... See more

Alistair Knox

Even her bare limbs were so free from suntan that one’s gaze, stroking her white shins and forearms, could follow upon them the regular slants of fine dark hairs, the silks of her girlhood.

Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)

Anna Wintour’s Wild Garden (Published 2016)

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Jane Austen • Sense and Sensibility: with original illustrated

Kindred Spirits

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