Meryl Streep has the clear-eyed blond handsomeness of a Valkyrie—the slight extra length of her nose gives her face a distinction that takes her out of the pretty class into real beauty. (1978)

Me after Eliot said reading Stendhal was like having your throat slit from humiliation

Secretary (2002) directed by Steven Shainberg

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Norton Critical Edition paperback, 1962. etsy.com/listing/435435…

Salome by Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde, translated by Lord Alfred Douglas. Dover paperback, 1967. From the collection of Sandra M. Gilbert. etsy.com/listing/435434…

Reporting by Lillian Ross. First Edition, first printing, 1964. etsy.com/listing/435434…

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love. The imagination is always united with a desire, that is to say a value. Only desire without an object is empty of imagination. Simone Weil

Thrilled to tell you Buried Georgia: The Evidence of Things Not Seen will be published next year by America Through Time — in the meantime my other cemetery books are available here: jessicaferri.com/books.html

The Glory of Hera: Greek Mythology and the Greek Family by Philip E. Slater. Paperback, 1971. From the collection of Sandra M. Gilbert. etsy.com/listing/435435…

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor. First Edition, first printing, 1988. Wear to dust jacket and binding. etsy.com/listing/435436…

Four Earthsea Novels: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin. Paperbacks, 1990s. etsy.com/listing/435436…

The Prime of Life: 1929-1944 by Simone de Beauvoir. Paperback, 1992. With an introduction by Toril Moi. Notes and annotations. etsy.com/listing/435495…

Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley. Virago Modern Classics paperback, 1985. With an introduction by Elaine Showalter. etsy.com/listing/435493…

The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs Gaskell. Paperback, 1971. From the collection of Sandra M. Gilbert. Purchased at the Haworth Brontë Parsonage Museum shop, with sticker on front cover. Delicate. 95p sticker on the back. etsy.com/listing/435494…

Horses are extremely photogenic, so a Western always has something going for it. (1985)

I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou. First Edition, 1990. etsy.com/listing/435556…

A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson, edited by Vivian R. Pollack. Signed First Edition, 1988. Inscribed to Sandra M. Gilbert: " etsy.com/listing/435556…

Katherine Mansfield: An Appraisal by Nariman Hormasji. First Edition, 1967. etsy.com/listing/435558…