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Books and tea. Curiouser and curiouser. Cats 🐈
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The Shower of Cards

Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

John Tenniel #WyrdWednesday
The Shower of Cards

Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

John Tenniel #WyrdWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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"Lie close," Laura said,
Pricking up her golden head:
"We must not look at goblin men.
We must not buy their fruits.
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry, thirsty roots?"
- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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White Narcissus, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fuel for the Fire
1895

Carlton Alfred Smith
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, was born #OnThisDay in 1892. He designed this blue silk velvet cloak, decorated with marabou feathers and metallic thread embroidery, for Ganna Walska in a production of Manon. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

Sonnet 5

Lisa Graa Jensen #ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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'I think I am quite wicked with roses — I like to gather them and smell them till they have no scent left.'
-George Eliot

🎨George Frederic Watts
#BookWormSat
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat …

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Nigel Artingstall #BookWormSat
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie

#BookWormSat

🎨Maud Scrivener
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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101 years ago today, the ballet "Bolero", with music by Maurice Ravel, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and designs by Alexandre Benois, was premiered in Paris. Ravel was less ambivalent about the piece than surprised at its popularity as a stand-alone symphonic work.
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Our own egg of a Sunday morning … If heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt … and a mug of sweet golden tea

Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes

Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Peacock Skirt
1892

Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley
Salomé by Oscar Wilde

#WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Queen of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-1596) is a character lifted from traditional folklore. William Shakespeare borrowed the name 'Titania' from the mythological daughters of Titans in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

art by Arthur Rackham (1908)
#FairyTaleTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Princess Badoura

Frontispiece from the Arabian Nights
1913

Edmund Dulac #FairyTaleTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"On a winter tree you see the snow white as her neck & face; her eyes sparkled. Perfect in size & shape her forehead, dark brows. Her hair was curly...She took the Knight to Avalon, that beautiful island". The fairy queen chooses Sir Lanval as lover in a medieval lai by Marie of France #BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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#Caturday

🎨Zann Hemphill
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see …

To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see …

To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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'Daylight Raid from My Studio Window, 7 July 1917' South Kensington by John Lavery

(Ulster Museum)
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Monet’s father cut off his allowance when he refused to abandon art.

He survived thanks to his devoted aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, who secretly supported him.
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust …

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind

Albert Edelfelt #BookologyThursday
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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#OwlishMonday

🎨Michael Demain
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
The Beech Wood
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Meanwhile, the children were visiting the downstairs kitchen

Home Life
1881
Thomas Crane

#legendarywednesday
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Song of the Heart
1920

Hilding Linnqvist

Swedish #art
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM