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Vintage Gothic Romance cover illustrations

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The sort of work that feels like play

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell (August 1908)

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D. H. Lawrence, from Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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Franz Kafka, referring to Milena Jesenská in a letter to Max Brod featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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sigridsminde 

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— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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“More love is found in grief than in love itself.”

—Lang Leav, September Love

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a girl of fear, a woman of anger— look how we've grown

girls contain multitudes, heather o'neill / king, florence + the machine / The Affront (L'affronto), by Antonio Piatti / In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado / this pin / cassandra, florence + the machine / What If This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky) / crush, richard siken / the closest thing i could find was this soundcloud link / a womans beauty, susan sontag / a vision of fiammetta, dante gabriel rossetti / stop me, natalia kills / fury, yevgeny yevtushenko

everyone say god bless you to @pe4rl-diver for the sources

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell written c. August 1937, featured in Selected Letters

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Rosemarie Clausen (1907-1990) ~ Tänzerin Natascha Trofimowa (als Ophelia im Hamlet-Ballett), um 1951 | src Schneider-Henn (link to pdf)

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 20 March 1928

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Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"