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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767 (detail)

Everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly, as if her dress had been woven out of candle-beams; and she carried her head high, like a pretty woman challenging a roomful of rivals.

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)

#the age of innocence #edith wharton #literature

François Boucher, Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, 1756 (detail)

#marie antoinette? i don't know her #jeanne antoinette supremacy pour toujours!#madame de pompadour #historicwomendaily #historyedit #*

The story we do is so dreary, that I cannot look forward to it. It is a very sad affair which starts in this war & goes back to the Great War! Altho’ I’m a good girl to start with, I turn into a prostitute, thereby ruining my chances with my fiance (who is believed killed, but who of course isn’t!) Eventually I either go mad or commit suicide, or am just plain blown up! — it’s gay isn’t it? - Vivien Leigh on Waterloo Bridge in a letter to Leigh Holman

#filmedit #waterloo bridge #vivien leigh #*

girlintheafternoon

Literary Heroines + Bedrooms

#les miserables #pride and prejudice #little women #anna karenina #*

She dodged and dreamed and romanced away the time; instead of inventing a remedy or a compromise, she gave herself, in her sentient solitude, up to a mere fairy tale, up to the very taste of the beautiful peace with which she would have filled the air if only something might have been that could never have been.

Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton (1896)

#henry james #the spoils of poynton #literature

They were rapidly and deeply in love. It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)

#persuasion #jane austen #literature

Pattie Boyd photographed by Nancy Sandys Walker, 1964

#pattie boyd #pattieboydedit #the beatles #thebeatlesedit #*

You intrude on my sleep. I believe you are an enchantress.

Alexander Hamilton in a letter to Elizabeth Schuyler, October 1780

#alexander hamilton #elizabeth schuyler #history

A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932)

#me with any photo of gary cooper / me with my mental image of frederic henry #as soon as i posted this my phone went off to let me know rain is coming in 3.5 hours #rather rude i should say!#a farewell to arms (1932)#a farewell to arms #helen hayes #gary cooper #*

girlintheafternoon

I love my girl very much. In fact I love her more than anything or anybody in the world, or the world itself. And she loves me. I'm immensely older [than when I was at home], so when I say that I'm in love with her it doesn't mean that I have a case on her. It means that I love her. Always I've wondered what it would be like to really meet the girl you will really love always and now I know. Furthermore she loves me—which is quite a miracle in itself. Oh, but I love that girl.

Ernest Hemingway writes about Agnes von Kurowsky in a letter to his sister Marcelline Hemingway (November 23, 1918)

#oh young ernest 🫣#this is too painful #ernest hemingway #agnes von kurowsky #literature

LOVE LETTERS (1945)

#they're so underrated as a dream team #love letters #jennifer jones #joseph cotten #*

SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (1944)

#since you went away #*

PORTRAIT OF JENNIE + date nights in New York

#just taking your best ghost girl out on the town #as one does #portrait of jennie #jennifer jones #joseph cotten #*

Oppressed with sleepiness, she went to bed and was snuggling down in the perfumed sheets when her eyes fell on the little table by the bedside. Someone had set a cup of hot chocolate there; half asleep, she reached out her hand for it and drank it. Her eyes closed and she fell into a delicious slumber where she dreamed of her lover, a prince as handsome as the God of Love in picture-books, and when he spoke it was with a voice that went straight to her heart.

Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Beauty and the Beast" from The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910)

#enchanted hot chocolate is the best hot chocolate #i'm assuming #this is the time of the year i put peppermint and pink heart-shaped marshmallows in mine and i should think that's pretty close #beauty and the beast #literature

She's like a tea rose. There's a wonderful fineness and firmness under all that shy, wistful girlishness of her.

L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

#walter you can't just say things like this about your secret best girl and then just up and go to france #especially when NO ONE leaves the somme alive #i know wwi gets lost in the shuffle but literally everyone knows that!#anne of green gables #rilla of ingleside #l.m. montgomery #literature

There's something in her letters—I don't know what—that makes me feel, at least while I'm reading them, that I could even go to the front. It's just the spirit of them—the personality that is in them . . . Somehow I see her eyes very plainly tonight. - walter blythe & una meredith, rilla of ingleside

#he loved her back!#much like walter i will die on a hill #and this is the one i have chosen #anne of green gables #rilla of ingleside #l.m. montgomery #bookedit #*

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