a woman of letters

people always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

[swanlake1998]

francesca hayward and marcelino sambé photographed performing as titania and oberon in frederick ashton's the dream by magda hoffman

[catherinesboleyn]

Isabelle Huppert as Alphonsine Plessis

Lady of the Camelias (1981)

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Day Dress.

Date: 1910-1912

Medium: Blue silk velvet, purple silk taffeta, embroidered blue silk tulle.

[polkadotmotmot]

Houda Terjuman - Sheltered Everywhere, 2024 - Oil on canvas

[undinesea]

Eternal, fragile, mysterious, and clear.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Music Box", from Selected Poems

[history-of-fashion]

1840 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow - Princess Wilhelmine Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg, Princess of Prussia

(Georgium Palace)

[history-of-fashion]

1830 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow - Prince Frederick William Louis of Prussia and Prince Frederick William Henry Casimir of Solms-Braunfels

(Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf)

[bellamuertes]

#get it girl 👑

[die-rosastrasse]

Alonso Miguel de Tovar Spanish,  1678–1758 Doña Josefa Benavides (details)

[cherubina]

Studio portraits of Suzanne Farrell as Titania in the New York City Ballet’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, 1966

[commonanomaly]

just make them girlfriends pls n thx

[lady-arryn]

Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese

[solcattus]

Portrait of countess Leontine Clary-Aldringen before 1832

Unknown painter

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1944

by Mainbocher, United States

Chicago Historical Society

[artfoli]

Nature Morte, 2018, by Rebecca Louise Law. 

Rebecca Louise Law, a British artist, created an installation reinterpreting the 200-year-old flower paintings of Golden Age painter J.L. Jensen in the Nivaagaards Collection.

[feral-ballad]

Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, tr. by Helen R. Lane, from The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters; “Teresa”