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Owl and Dominoes
by Gertrude Abercrombie
#OwlishMonday
UNVEILING NEW ACCOUNT If you were following my Coffin Boffin account on Twitter @drsamgeorge1 please follow this bsky account. I can't make the transition easily as I have 35K followers on there and only 700+ on here. I am posting on the same themes of Gothic Enchantment and Dark Folklore!!
When Jane Morris cast off her corset in favour of loose, romantic clothing, and lived an unconventional lifestyle with Rossetti, she was following a trend set by the artists and intellectuals of 19th century Paris, known as “bohémiens”
D G Rossetti #WyrdWednesday
In the Shelter of the Mother Tree, Piia Lehti, 2013.
Windowbox
'The Veairies' by Warwick Goble
Illustration for the poem by William Barnes
'The Book of Fairy Poetry' (Dora Owen, 1920)
'I passed from the familiar room,
I who from love had passed away,
Like the remembrance of a guest
That tarrieth but a day.'
~Christina Rossetti
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#PhantomsFriday
"What hast thou found within the pool of dreams,
Where roses of a thousand summers blow?
What strange and lovely thing of opal gleams,
Secrets and tears and hopes of long ago?"
'The Crystal Gazer'
🎨 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
🖋️Annie R Rentoul
'...I look at you, heart of silver,
White heart-flame of polished silver,
Burning beneath the blue steeples of the larkspur,
And I long to kneel instantly at your feet,
While all about us peal the loud, sweet Te Deums of the Canterbury bells.'
~Amy Lowell
🎨Charles Courtney Curran
#BookWormSat
