writers
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Ambrose Bierce, writer.
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GK Chesterton to George Bernard Shaw: ‘To look at you, Shaw anyone would think there was a famine in England.’.
Shaw retorted, ‘To look at you, Chesterton, anyone would think you caused it”.
Wish I’d Said That: http://lauriekendrick.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/wish-id-said-that/ -
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George Augustus Henry Sala, journalist & writer by Elliott & Fry.
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George Augustus Henry Sala looking super duper fly between 1855 – 1865 by Mathew Brady or Lewin Handy.
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Lovely informal shot of Edward VII (OMG! He’s laughing!) at Balmoral, Scotland, taken by his wife Queen Alexandra. Printed in “Queen Alexandra’s Christmas Gift Book”, published by the Daily Telegraph, London, 1908.
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This fine specimen is French writer and politician Eugene Pelletan as photographed by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) and featured today on my Met page-a-day calendar. I know what I’m going to be staring at all day!
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
Rossetti’s art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti’s work; he frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) to Astarte Syriaca (1877), one of his last completed works.
Rossetti’s personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris.
Image: Albumen print of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1863
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Edward Carpenter by F. Holland Day who photographed and mentored the young Khalil Gibran
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I LOVE harkavagrant aka beattona I’ve been following her on LJ for yars and yars!
I can imagine Edgar being a bit of a killjoy when it came to bromance, whereas Jules ROCKS.
harkavagrant.com
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Arthur Conan Doyle, 1913 -very much the picture of the Edwardian gent with straw boater and tie. Oh and that moustache.