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Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)

Wade does a lot of pointillist deep diving in the Yale archives, seeking to reexamine both the Stein-Toklas partnership and the value of Stein’s writing. What becomes abundantly clear is that Toklas was far more than the silent sycophantic partner. She was a power in her own right, brainy and perceptive, given to quick opinions (she seems to have... See more

Gala, who had taken her time getting to know Dalí, had discovered a true connection. He understood her mood swings and quick intuitions. She could help him realize his talent, which in many ways expressed her own way of seeing. She was ten years older than Dalí, and she found the artist’s youth and neediness very appealing. Here was someone she

Michèle Gerber Klein • Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali

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Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Harriet Elizabeth obviously had too little to occupy her active mind, so she was directed not only to master the abstractions of Butler’s Analogy but to teach a course on the book to girls of her own age. Harriet Elizabeth accomplished the terrifying assignment by keeping one chapter ahead of her students.

Noel Gerson • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

I discovered her. Charmante, a perfect Gretchen,4 and we’ve already become acquainted. The prettiest little thing, really!’

Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)

like my own. Like the freckles, it made her – not unremarkable, as I had feared to find her; but marvellously, achingly real. Hearing it, I understood at last my wildness of the past seven days. I thought, how queer it is! – and yet, how very ordinary: I am in love with you. Soon her face

Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)