Enchanted Oaks

Evening dress, 1890-95

Confession by Frank Bernard Dicksee

Jeremy Brett x Tchaikovsky

The subject of the painting is taken from Shakespeare's play, 'Measure for Measure'. Mariana, a minor character, was also the subject of a poem by Tennyson. Rossetti's Mariana is lost in reverie - she has been rejected by her fiancé, Angelo, because her dowry was lost in a shipwreck. Her introspective gaze conveys her detached longing, giving no hint of the eventual re-union with her lover.

“Pale death visits with impartial foot the cottages of the poor and the castles of the rich.“ -Horace

Averil Mary Burleigh (English, 1883–1949)

Monna Pomona (1864) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828 – 1882), watercolor and gum arabic on paper, 47.6 cm (18.7 in) x 39.3 cm (15.4 in), Tate Britain

William Shakespeare is believed to have both been born and died on this day (April 23) in 1564 and 1616, respectively. His astonishing body of work has become one of the most enduring legacies of England and its language.

Alonso Sanchez Coello (Spanish, c.1515-1588) Miniature Portrait of Isavella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633), daughter of Philip II. of Spain and Elizabeth of Valois, n.d. Victoria and Albert Museum, London

— Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom

Edgar Allan Poe, from a poem featured in "Poetry and Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe,"

Wightwick Manor, in Wolverhampton

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER — 1.04 "Chapter Four"