Summer Sunlight, 1892 #hassam #childehassam wikiart.org/en/childe-hass…

Lickspigot (16th century): the friend or acquaintance who always drops by as you’re opening a bottle of wine. The one who appears just before dinner is a ‘smellfeast’.

💥 Sale ends midnight tonight, Eastern Time. 💥

US painter Maria Oakey Dewing, A Bed of Poppies, (c.1909) #WomensArt

„I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes.“ Anne Brontë

The Tolkiens knew how to throw a party

Me standing on my TBR pile & declaring that I still need more books

Bouquet of flowers, 1882 #edouardmanet #manet wikiart.org/en/edouard-man…

Mary Cassatt, Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, 1880 #WomensArt #Autumn

PS: We actually wrote a retrospective of Angela Lansbury on her 95th birthday, and it is FULL of photos of her looking like an absolute DISH, wearing caftans, and stabbing more than one cake. Thank you for the memories, madam! gofugyourself.com/its-angela-lan…

Edna St. Vincent Millay died on this day in 1950 and left us, amid her resplendia of poems, one of the most moving things ever written about mortality. Here it is, with a side of science and a breathtaking animation by Sophie Blackall themarginalian.org/2022/03/25/dir… #UniverseInVerse

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Swing Time, 1936

London and Big Ben under the snow tonight. Just beautiful ❄️

“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941)

„My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.“ Edna St. Vincent Millay * February 22, 1892

Happy #WomensDay! For those who follow their dreams, support dreams of others, & everyone trying to make the world better - you are reason for hope. There are so many reasons to fight for gender equity. Tag an inspiring femme, tell us why in the comments below! #8MarchWomensDay

Word of the afternoon is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and appreciate its warmth.

Katherine Anne Porter, born on this day in 1890, on the power of art themarginalian.org/2023/08/06/kat…