1860s
The White Cliffs | Dover, Kent, England
A vintage postcard illustration featuring a stylish lady walking along a footpath overlooking the White Cliffs of Dover, 1900. The...
Water Lilies | Claude Monet / Charles Dickens / Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Henry David Thoreau
Claude Monet, Nympheas, 1897–1898 . "It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the...
Days [ ) Attention | Charles Dickens, 1861
Man Ray, Eyes, 1935 . “She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”...
Book//mark – What Is to Be Done? | Nikolai Chernyshevsky, 1863
What Is to Be Done?, 1905 Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889) . “But does it...
A Birthday | A poem by Christina Rossetti, 1861
unknown . My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like...
On [:] Quite | Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Édouard Manet, Young Lady, 1866 "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you...
Days [ ) Doubt | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1864
anon . "I stood in the snow, gazing into the troubled darkness and pondered this."And will it not be better?"...
On [:] The Use of a Book | Lewis Carroll, 1865
Gerardo Sacristán Torralba, Scrambled books, Study of light, 1939 "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures...
Marie Henriques Picture Book | Hans Christian Andersen, 1868
In the fall of 1868, Hans Christian Andersen spent several days or perhaps even weeks in seclusion. During this time...