The Gentle Woman

She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold 

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

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Unknown Photographer. Anonymous Roller race. England. 1930

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1828 Countess von Berchem by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

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Pear Tarte Tatin (Made Simple)

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“Adini is very poorly, every minute we expect a premature birth, and even then recovery is impossible (tears prevent me from writing). Our only consolation now lies in the thought that nothing is impossible with God. But this is our only hope.”

— Grand Duchess, later Empress, Maria Alexandrovna of Russia on her sister-in-law, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna, who was terminally ill and pregnant.

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A Comfortable Corner

Charles Courtney Curran, 1887

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Details: Doña Gertrudis de Compte y de Bruga, c.1830, by Vicente López y Portaña.

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Grannonia and the Fox, from The Serpent for The Pentamerone by Warwick Goble (1911)

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Innocence (1899)

Arthur Hacker (1858–1919)

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Zacarías González Velázquez

Spanish, 1763-1834

Manuela González Velázquez playing the piano, ca. 1820  (details)

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Childbirth can be a perilous business. So can motherhood…

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KLYTIE THE PURPLE FLOWER by annie stegg

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Alesya Skorobogataya