“The Countess Brownlow” By Sir Frederic Leighton (1879)

history | charles dana gibson

charles dana gibson was an american illustrator, who is best known for his creation of the gibson girl, which was an iconic representation of an independent euro-american woman at the turn of the 20th century. a gibson girl was described as “a member of upper-middle-class society, always perfectly dressed in the latest fashionable attire appropriate for the place and time of day. the gibson girl was also one of the new, more athletic-shaped women, who could be found cycling through central park, often exercised, and was emancipated to the extent that she could enter the workplace. in addition to the gibson girl’s refined beauty, in spirit, she was calm, independent, confident, and sought personal fulfillment.”

Girl, Help! I Thought I Wouldn’t Be Attracted to Book Dracula because He is an Old Man with White Hair and a Mustache! But Alas!

The shepherdess, c. 1900. Edward Frederick Brewtnall (British, 1846–1902)

“Fair Rosamund” by John William Waterhouse (1916)

Art: John William Waterhouse, “Flora and the Zephyrs” (1898)

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“In the dusky path of a dream I went to seek the love who was mine in a former life.”

- this achingly beautiful line is from a poem by Tagore that W.B. Yeats selected for inclusion in The Oxford Book of Common Verse. Another reason for dreaming.

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

5.16.22

peet’s coffee and my ophelia essay crunch

like they will always be mean girls bullies its true

there is nobody more evil or obnoxious than someone who grew up with any bed bigger than a twin in their childhood bedroom

summary of my last week and weekend. absolutely devouring dracula, i love it sm. biked to a coffeee shop with my dad too💛. starting one of my summer classes this week!!

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Freidrich // M&M’s Sharing Size bag (2022)