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Author-Félix Thiollier.

Date: c. 1899.

Location: France (?)

I find this photo amazing.

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post--grad

The narrator…has here become a fragmented and tortured person, wracked by anxiety, freely admitting to a bout of mental illness, and at the same time still confident he can produce an ambitious and lengthy, if final, poetic project in English.

Vickie Larsen & John Pendell, “Thomas Hoccleve’s Series and English Verse in Early Fifteenth-Century London.” Philological Quarterly 97.4 (2018).

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ofallingstar

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2015)

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A man unrequitedly in love will stand outside your home and knock, throw, kick, holler, relentless in pursuit. Foreign to the idea of a space he is unwelcome in. A woman unrequitedly in love will sit. She’s far away from your house. She knows it’s not for her. She will wait, she has gifts prepared if she is ever invited in. She has herself prepared if she’s not.

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antigonick

—the aesthetic cult of ladylike fragility and delicate beauty—no doubt associated with the moral cult of the angel-woman—obliged ‘genteel’ women to ‘kill’ themselves into art objects: slim, pale, passive beings whose ‘charms’ eerily recalled the snowy, porcelain immobility of the dead.

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “The Queen’s looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity”, in The Madwoman in the Attic

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