a woman of letters

francesca hayward and marcelino sambé photographed performing as titania and oberon in frederick ashton's the dream by magda hoffman

Lady of the Camelias (1981)

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

Medium: Blue silk velvet, purple silk taffeta, embroidered blue silk tulle.

Houda Terjuman - Sheltered Everywhere, 2024 - Oil on canvas

Jorge Luis Borges, "Music Box", from Selected Poems

(Georgium Palace)

(Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf)

#get it girl 👑

Alonso Miguel de Tovar Spanish,  1678–1758 Doña Josefa Benavides (details)

Studio portraits of Suzanne Farrell as Titania in the New York City Ballet’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, 1966

just make them girlfriends pls n thx

Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese

Unknown painter

Chicago Historical Society

Rebecca Louise Law, a British artist, created an installation reinterpreting the 200-year-old flower paintings of Golden Age painter J.L. Jensen in the Nivaagaards Collection.

Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, tr. by Helen R. Lane, from The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters; “Teresa”