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The Life of Charlotte Brontë is a biographical account of the life of author Charlotte Brontë from the perspective of her friend and fellow author Elizabeth Gaskell. It is widely considered the most comprehensive account of the lives of the…

Published in the June 26, 1935 edition of the newspaper The Listener, George Bernard Shaw's essay "Freedom" is surrounded by additional text. It is preceded by blurbs ranging from vacation advertisements to charity requests. A plea for donations to…

This Year: Next Year is a tale of a passing year. In the book are poems of scenes and narrations that society experiences during the year. Some examples of this are like the morning dawn, the waking of the birds, the first fisherman on the lake, the…

The story of If Winter Comes focuses on Mark Sabre and his relationship with his wife. The story of the book, though is not what most immediately catches the eye, but rather what someone had written in the book. On one of the first few pages of the…

Almost two decades after founding Life Magazine, in 1901, John Ames Mitchell, a Harvard University educated architect, artist, and author, published The Pines of Lory with Life Publishing Company. The novel follows the unfolding of the unlikely…

French Flag reportedly given to Christian Brothers in France in gratitude for their service during the Franco-Prussian War.

An engraving illustrating a book

Harry McVickar drew 30 illustrations for the second edition of An International Episode, published in 1892. Of those images, 12 depict women and 13 depict men. What stands out the most is the difference in body language between McVickar’s portrayal…

In this book, McVickar, who is the illustrator of An International Episode, is now the writer and illustrator of his own book. The first illustration provides a preview of what is to come, and appears on the contents page. It shows a man dressed for…

In this photo, we see, from the left: Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy, Pauline Pfeiffer, Ernest Hemingway, and Elizabeth Hadley Richardson.

This photo, which is located in the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library…