Intimate autobiography written for Stephen’s immediate family after the death of his wife, Julia, the mother of Vanessa and Virginia. Very good in d/w [13199] £12 294. (BOTTLE) Dorothy Bottle Reminiscences of a Queen’s Army Schoolmistress Arthur Stockwell no date [1936] Dorothy Bottle (...
Hear what readers are saying about the wit, charm, and relatability of ‘The Adventures of Cynical Woman.’ (No one is saying any of these things!! Seriously, this website has been dead for over 10 years now, and I’m trying to revive it and something has gone horribly wrong!!) The...
Words, like fashions, disappear and recur throughout English history —Virginia Graham The word seemed to linger in the air, to throb in the air like the note of a violin —Katherine Mansfield Her words at first seemed fitful like the talking of the trees —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (She spok...
unknown, unknown, which she showed at the 2023Venice Biennale. It was created as an homage to the enslaved community that labored at the University of Virginia. Yasmeen Lari Yasmeen LariPortrait photo of architect Yasmeen Lari during an interview in her garden in Karachi, Pakistan in May, 2023...
held by Tina Stromstead, Meg Wilbur and Virginia Holmquist. Inspired by the tree's age and courage - I drew it - and wrote the lines, below. They still mean a lot to me, now, at 84. I REALLY 'GET IT' ALTHOUGH MY TIME IS SHORT ...
For many years, Durrie made a living primarily as a portrait painter, executing hundreds of commissions. After marriage, he made frequent trips, traveling to New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, fulfilling commissions and looking for new ones. His diary reveals that he was an ent...
Had Virginia Tower Norwood listened to her high school guidance counselor, she would have become a librarian. Her aptitude test showed a remarkable facility with numbers, and in 1943, he could think of no better way for a young woman to put such skills t
and we visited my mother and step-father in Virginia in mid-April. I am so very happy that I didn’t wait to do host and visit thinking I would have had plenty of time, because it turned out that I didn’t. I feel like I really used the brief time I had being close to my fa...
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, to Jeremiah Malachi Joyner, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Henrietta Beale.[2] By 1876 her family moved to Providence, Rhode Island,[4] where she began singing at an early age in her father’s Pond Str...
Anyway, it doesn’t really matter – they both drink enough and with such brio, that Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s George and Martha, had they been around, would raise their glasses to them as kindred dipsomaniacal spirits. But George and Martha, as intelligent and as morbidly funny...