Old world sparkle

Lady Lavery

Life magazine covers

Merle Oberon

A midsummer night's dream

Medusa

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indoor consolations on a winters day

Nicolas Poussin

Narcissus John William Waterhouse

Miranda- The Tempest. John William Waterhouse

James Alphege Brewer

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Kickass paintings

Paolo Uccello

Remedios Varo

Joseph Paton

All pictured from Pinterest

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Jezebel Sationery, where art thou?

Whatever happened to Jezebel Stationery? I have come across her designs many many a time, as I wished to call a 'Boudicca and Romola rode white horses' tote my own, but their site has up and gone! Disappeared! It is so strange when things disappear off the internet, like the Unicorn Diaries! Quite the feat to pull off, nevertheless, please enjoy her beautiful beautiful artwork I have pinched pictures of from all over the interwebz

The delicate silhouettes, the suggestions of a raucous night life....ah! What dreams brought to life!

Link to blog here good read too

I am most definitely a gin drinker, if nothing else

Midsummer Night's dream! You can never do any wrong!

Pics from wherever I could find these delightful designs

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A Midsummer Night's dream paintings

The enchanting play brought to life on the canvas

Oberon, Titania and Puck with fairies dancing William Blake 1786

Henry Fuseli

Titania Sleeping Arthur Rackham

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Reading!

Tristram Shandy is brilliant! everything I heard and knew about it= expectations met, heavily recommend. Midsummer Night's Dream is my favourite Shakespeare work apart from the sonnets, I re-read it every few years, magical and hilarious. 

As for Tom Hodgkinson, I'm kind of obsessive about his work. How to be Idle, How to be Free, Brave Old World and the issues of the Idler I have delved into are brilliant. I have an almost cult- like obsession with his work. Him and Alain de Botton are some of my favourite thinkers.

Hodgkinson's views on how fast modern pace and the distance between us and the old world is something that will resonate with anyone with a fondness for flights of fancy away from our world. He references everything and everyone, from the romantic poets, to Samuel Johnson, to Punk lyrics and ideas, more on him to come, I better leave it here or I won't shut up

Have  look at the Idler here

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Grand taxonomy of Shakespearean insults

Available here

So brilliant. My favourite insult ever is one my sister told me, from a Robin Hobb book "you misbegotten piece of wharf trash" waiting for the day I can use it

Pic from link above

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