[princessnamora]

Eartha Kitt as Anna Lucasta in Anna Lucasta (1958)

[petaltexturedskies]

I have just stood before the open window of my bedroom and I have breathed in deeply all the honeysuckle-perfumed air, the sunshine, the snowdrops of winter, the carouses of spring, the primroses, the crooning pigeons, the trills of the birds, the entire procession of soft winds and cool smells of frail colors and petal-textured skies, the knotted snake greys of old vine roots, the vertical shoots of young branches, the dank smell of old leaves, of wet earth, of torn roots, and fresh-cut grass, winter, summer, and fall, sunrises and sunsets, storms and lulls, wheat and chestnuts, wild strawberries and wild roses, violets and damp logs, burnt fields and new poppies.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. I: 1931-1934

[feminineforms]

"Le Réveil [The Awakening]" (1877) by Eva Gonzalés; French; oil on canvas

[more-than-ideas]

Barbara Laage by Nina Leen (1946)

[classicfilmsource]

Ida Lupino OUT OF THE FOG 1941 | Anatole Litvak

[oldpaintings]

Spring Flowers, c.1897 by Albert-Émile Artigue (Argentinian/French, 1850–1927)

[swanlake1998]

sono osato photographed for vogue by john rawlings

[mary-philbin]

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara GONE WITH THE WIND (1939), dir. Victor Fleming

[fateofgrace]

CLAUDIA CARDINALE as ANGELICA SEDARA The Leopard (1963) dir. Luchino Visconti

[tomoleary]

Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) Portrait of a lady (undated) Source

[petaltexturedskies]

Katherine Mansfield, from Selected Poems; "To Her In Paradise"

[gatabella]

Gene Tierney, 1940s

[abwwia]

Jacqueline Marval, Duchesse de Montbazon, 1904, private collection. Comité Jacqueline Marval.

[leftoverlondoner]

A very pleasing poster design from 1974 and the slightly unexpected hand of Edward Gorey.

[petaltexturedskies]

A sweet melancholy fell on her like a gentle caress, that was heart wrenching at times, a vague desire for things unknown.

Giovanni Verga, Mastro-don Gesualdo (originally published 1889)

[innocentscemetery]

Evelyn Nesbit

[artssie]

Reclining Lady (1894) by Francisc Masriera Manovens