1) For "Girls' books and womens' lives," 12/10/05:
L'Edition du Luxe by Lilian Hale Westcott (1880-1963)
"Seaside Cafe" (1884) by Jean Beraud (1849-1935)
Ana Juan's "Requiem," Sept 2005
1920s
1920s, Barbara Schermund
1920s, Barbara Schermund
1920s, Barbara Schermund
1940s, Barbara Schermund
Helen Hokinson, 1940s-50s
Marisa Acocella, 1999
Marisa Acocella, 1999
Wry Comment on Feminism, 2005
Unfunny this morninng
Claude Azoulay, Edith Piaf, at the Olympia, Paris, April 1961
Mary Poppins, first illustrator Mary Shepard
Mary Poppins in the Park
1964 Disney Mary Poppins: Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke, moment of hope
1964 DisneyMary Poppins: Andrews & Dyke dancing magically in park picture
1964 Disney Mary Poppins: Dyke leading fantastical dance sequence on the roof
Laura intent on making wreath, Christmas 2005
Laura at work, Christmas 2005
Ellen watching Have His Carcase, Christmas 2005
Bob (George Clooney) in Syriana, film adaptation
Plate for Christine de Pisan, from Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Harriet Walters (Harriet Vane) and Edward Petherbridge (Lord Peter) in Strong Poison, film adaptation
Walters (Vane) in Have His Carcase, film adaptation
J. McNeill Whistler, for "The Major's Daughter," Once a Week
Ford Madox Brown, Last of England, 1855
Georg Friedrich Kersting, (1785 - 1847), A Lady by a Window
Paul Scott Staying On, 1977
J. L. Carr Month in the Country, 1980
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust, 1987 (in French trans)
A. S. Byatt Possession, 1990
Michael Ondaatje, then Antony Mingella English Patient, 1992
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1997
Peter Carey The True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001 (in Italian trans)
Jeremy Northam as Mr Knightley in the 1995 film, Emma
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
Claude Monet (1840-1926) Road to Louveciennes, Melting Snow, Sunset (1869-70)
Anna Bilinksa (1857/58-1893) Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes (1887)
Anna Bilinksa Unter den Linden in Berlin (1890)
Anna Bilinksa Bretonka na progu chaty (1889)
Anna Bilinksa At the Seashore (1890?)
Marianne (Kate Winslet) and John Willoughby (Greg Wise), Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Marianne (Kate Winslet) and Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Nola (Scarlett Johansson) and Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), Matchpoint (2006)
Mrs Henderson (Judi Dench), Mrs Henderson Presents (2006)
Hero and Heroine, The Notebook (2004)
Jeanne-Claude and Cristo, The Gates, Central Park, NYC, Feb '05
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Road, Winter, Sun and Snow (1869-72)
David Milne, Watercolors: Painting Towards the Light, Katharine Lochnan (2005 Exhibition catalogue)
David Milne (1882-1953), Black and White Trees and Buildings (1915-16)
Dora Carrington (1893-1932), The Mill at Tidmarsh (1918)
David Milne, Billboards (1869-72)
Victoria Clark as Margaret Johnson, The Light in the Piazza (2006)
Victoria Clark as Margaret Johnson and Katie Clarke as Clara, her daughter, The Light in the Piazza (2006)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), 1866 photograph
Sarah Bernhardt, La fille de Roland (1876)
Sarah Bernhardt, Fantastic Inkwell (Self-portrait as sphinx) (1880)
Sarah Bernhardt, poster by Alphonse Mucha, La dame aux camelias (1896)
Sarah Bernhardt and Stella [Mrs Patrick] Campbell, Pelleas et Melisande (1904)
Yellow chrystanthemums
Jackson with snowmen
Larry Chilly speaks out
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Self-Portrait, 1959
Remedios Varo (1908-63), To Be Reborn, 1960
Charlize Therone, from North Country, 2005
Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes, from The Constant Gardener, 2005
Keira Knightley, rehearsing at Wilton House, for Pride and Prejudice, 2005
Christine de Pizan at her computer
Picture of Earth on a Computer
Mostly a myth
New Yorker, 2003
New Yorker, 2005
Cyborg by Lynn Randolph
La Salle des Saisons at the Louvre (1802-3) by Hubert Robert (1733-1808)
Autograph letter, 1766, by Angelica Kauffman
The Insane Maria from Sterne's Sentimental Journey by Angelica Kauffman
Composition (1780) by Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807)
Penelope Weeping over the Bow of Ulysses by Angelica Kauffman
Virgil Writing His Own Epitaph (1785) by Angelica Kauffman
Lady Elizabeth Foster by Angelica Kauffman
The Duchess of Devonshire and her Son by Angelica Kauffman
Portrait of a Lady (1775?) by Angelica Kauffman
Designs for Wedgewood China by Angelica Kauffman
Wedgewood Jars by Angelica Kauffman
Wedgewood Pottery by Angelica Kauffman
The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of Poetry (Kauffmann on left, Maria Cosway may be the other figure, 1775?) by Angelica Kauffman
Felicity Huffman (Stan-Brie), Transamerica
Huffman (Stan-Brie) and Kevin Zegers (Toby), Transamerica
Huffman and Zegers once again, Transamerica
John Singer Sergeant (1856-1925) Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)
Helen Allingham ((1848-1926) Tig Bridge
John Wilmost, 2nd Early of Rochester ((1647-1680), copy of autograph letter to his wife, Elizabeth>
Johnny Depp as Wilmot writing, The Libertine, 2006
Johnny Depp as Wilmot depressed, The Libertine, 2006
"Winter," a print from 1670s, Lord Rochester's Monkey: being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, by Graham Green
Lady Elizabeth Wilmot, Elizabeth and John Wilmot's second daughter
Rosamund Pike, Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester in the 2006 The Libertine; also Jane Bennet in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice
Kelly Reilly, Jane in the 2006 The Libertine; also Miss Bingley in the 2005 P&P, the young Amy in the 2001 Last Orders
Samantha Morton as Elizabeth Barry in the 2006 The Libertine; also Harriet in the 1995 BBC Emma, Jane Eyre in the 1997 Jane Eyre (with Ciarhan Hinds as Edward Rochester)
Drawing by Stevie Smith for poem called "My Soul"
Jane Freilicher (b. 1924) Casement Window (1974)
Lucy Hutchinson (1620-?76)
Pavilion and Temple, "Petit Trianon," Marie Antoinette
Versailles, the "Jardin Anglais," Marie Antoinette
Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789), Claire de Lune, 1771
Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789)), Constructing a Main Road, 1774
Mont Royal Park woods, Montreal (F. Olmsted)
Mont Royal Park, lookout, Montreal (F. Olmsted)
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842), Countess Golovin (1797-1800)
Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782), Self-Portrait (1762)
Wagner's Das Rheingold, Zambello production, Washington National Opera, 2006
Bellina's Norma as pictured by a modern woman photographer, Caroline Blackburn
William Fraser Garden (1856-1921), Willows on the Ouse, 1881
Kara Walker (born 1969), silhouette, visionary
Kara Walker, Burn
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), Oak Trees at Lullingstone Park
Samuel Palmer, In Shoreham Garden
Samuel Palmer, Rustic Scene
Samuel Palmer, Curfew: Wide Watered Shores
The Wizard of Oz as bad dream
Laurie Simmons (born 1969), Pink Bathroom (1984)
Gudrun Gisladottir, Free Study XI (2006)
Laura, driving through Shenandoah, 2006
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), A Dance to the Music of Time (exact date unknown)
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), Hayfield (1855-56)
Alex M. Haig Great Indian Peninsular Railway Terminus, Bombay (1880), a watercolor made in London, fanciful
Nicole Holofcener, Friends with Money 2006 film
Brian Friel, Faith Healer, 2006 play
Carl Van Loo (1705-1765) Sultanessa at Tapestry Frame, mid-18th century, commissioned by Madame de Pompadour
Antonio Caneletto (1697-1768) View of Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens (1751)
John Everett Millais, book illustration, Mary Queen of Scots, mid-19th century
Francis Hodgson Burnett, latter years
Cover illustration for Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Alan Rickman and Anna Massey, 2006
Helen Mirren, 2006
Adolphe Appia (1862-1928), design for Parzival
Claude Monet, (1840-1926) Sunrise
Dunbar Room, Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith, imitating a later 18th century illustrastionof a lady reading a book, still from the 1995 BBC Emma
Kaye Sage, (1898-1963), Le Passage (1956)
Al Gore pictured next to the earth, An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, The Constant Gardener (2005-6)
Ralph Fiennes as Mr Jackson, The White Countess (2006)
Fiennes as Jackson, Natasha Richardson as Countess Sofia Belinska, The White Countess
Richardson as Countess, and Daly as her daughter, Katya, The White Countess
Promotional Still, The White Countess, synopsis
Francesco Goya (1746-1828) The Colossus (Panic) (1809)
Margaret Julia Cameron (1815-1879) The Gardener's Daughter (1873)
Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934) The Picture Book (1903)
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) Still Life (1981)
Anne Stevenson (b. 1933)
A Girl Reading by Window by Sandby, 18th century drawing & print
Dave Newbould Gwm Nanctol, image of painting on cover of Stevenson's Poems 1955-2005
Barbara Bodichon (1827-1891) Stonehenge (watercolor)
Alice Austen (1866-1952) Hester Street, Egg Stand, 1895
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) Musette du cour
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) Thomas Carlyle
Luke Fildes (1843-1927) Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward (1874)
Sir Hubert Von Herkomer (1849-1914) Hard Times (1885)
Thomas and Jane Carlyle's front room (photo take in present Carlyle House)
Ana Juan
19th Century photo of a gentlewoman reading
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Amaryllis and Henrietta [her granddaughters reding with their dolls inbetween them] (1952)
Marilyn Monroe reading
Laura Knight (1877-1970) Summertime, Cornwall (c. 1920s)
Peters Tower, Lympstone Village, Devonshire
Peters Tower, Sunset, Lympstone Village, Devonshire
Peters Tower, Another sunset, Lympstone Village, Devonshire
Peters Tower, High tide, swans, Lympstone Village, Devonshire
Peters Tower, Low tide, Lympstone Village, Devonshire
John Everett Millais, "Judge Staveley and His Daughter, Orley Farm, 1860-61
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), Woman as Artist
John Constable (1776=1837), Hadleigh Castle, 1814
John Constable (1776-1837) The Hay Wain, 1821
John Constable (1776-1837), The Opening of Waterloo Bridge, 1820-25
John Constable (1776-1837), Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831
Helen Allingham (1848-1926), Carlyle House, 1881
From National Theatre production of Chekhov's Seagull, adapted by Martin Crimp, directed by Katie Mitchell, starring Juliet Stevenson
Jean Arthur (1900-91)
Cary Grant (1904-86)
George Stevens'sTalk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Ronald Colman, Cary Grant
George Stevens'sTalk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
George Stevens's Talk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Colman and Grant
George Stevens'sTalk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
George Stevens'sTalk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Jean Arthur and Edgar Buchanan
George Stevens'sTalk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
George Stevens'sTalk of the Town (1937) (written by Sidney Harmon), Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
"Fletcher's Tamer Tamed 1611, RSC 2003 revival
Margaret Carpenter (1793-1872), Sisters,early-mid 19th Century
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926 Little Girl Leaning on Her Mother's Knew or (equally) Young Woman Sewing 1901
Emma Brownlow (flourished 1852-69 The Foundling Restored to Its Mother 1858
Jane Freilicher (b. 1924), Dark Afternoon (2001)
Sally Potter's 1992 Orlando, Tilda Swinton as Orlando at the close
Sally Mann (b. 1951) Jessie at Nine (recent)
Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920)
"Fresh Intoxication," New Yorker, J. J. Sempre
Henry Biva (1848-1928) Etang en Ile de France, idyllic landscape
Illustration from Wm Dean Howells's Their Wedding Journey, 1871
CD cover of recent production of Leos Janacek's 1903 Jenufa
Main Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1930s photo
Charlotte Rampling (Ellen), Cantet's Vers le Sud, screenplay Robin Campillo, based on 3 stories by Dany Laferriere
Jeremy Irons (Robert Gould), Sturridge's Longitude, based on the book by Dava Sobel
Michael Gambon (John Harrison), Sturridge's Longitude, based on the book by Dava Sobel
People working on the site of the collapsed World Trade Center
John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), Crambe Beck Bridge, near Kirkham, Yorkshire, 1805
Deepa Mehta's Water2006, concluding scene with heroine fleeing with girl child to save her
Jamie Babbit's The Quiet, 2006, final still with two heroines sitting side-by-side as Dot instructs Nina and they play together
Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres in House of Sand, 2006
Seu Jorge in House of Sand, 2006
19th century photograph of slow transformation of Canadian wilderness
Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93), Autumn Morning, 1880s
1935 Hitchcock film, Thirty Nine Steps from John Buchan's pre 1930s reactionary spy novel
Cover illustration for E. H. Young's Curate's Wife, a portrait by Mainie Jellett, private collection
Cover illustration for recent edition of Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night
Girls by a Fountain by Mainie Jellett, cover illustration for Jenny Wren (1932) by E. H. Young (1880-1949)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) Still Life
Carel Willink (1900-1983) Bad Tidings
Carel Willink (1900-1983) Wilma with Cat (1940)
Robert Maxwell Helen Mirren (2006)
Helen McNichols (1879-1915) In the Shade of the Tent (1914)
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Interior with Housemaid (1930)
Elissa Kay Sparks, Seraglio (1994)
Marianne Von Werefkin (1860-1938) Woman with Lanter (1910)
Marianne Von Werefkin (1860-1938) Sunday Afternoon in Spring (1910)
Marianne Von Werefkin (1860-1938) Industrial Villa (1912)
Marianne Von Werefkin (1860-1938) Autunno (Scuoloa) (1907)
Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Outbreak (1903)
Helen Mirren in The Queen, 2006
Gloira Munoz (b. 1949) Ocean Space I, 2000
Gloria Munoz (b. 1949) Reddish Table and Window, 1999
Juliet Stevenson as Mrs Elton in Emma, 1996
Jeremy Northam as Mr Knightley and Emma Paltrow as Emma in Emma, 1996
Alicia Silverstone (Cher Horowitz), Stacey Dash (Dionne) and Brittany Murphy (Tai) in Clueless, 1995
Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun (1755-1842) Marie Antoinette en Amazone, 1771
Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun (1755-1842), Comtesee de Polignac, 1783
Still from Coppola's Marie Antoinettefor 2006 film Babel
Dance scene of principal players, BBC Emma, 1996
Dance scene of principal players, Miramax Emma, 1996
Bow and arrow scene of Mr Knightley (Northam) and Emma (Paltrow), Miramax Emma, 1996, imitating similar scene of Darcy (Laurence Olivier) and Elizabeth (Greer Garson) in MGM 1940 P&P
David Hockney (b. 1937), Winter Tunnel, 2006
Harold Pinter (Sir Thomas Bertram) sternly intimidating Fanny Price (Francis O'Connor) in the 1999 Miramax Mansfield Park
Advertisement for 2006 film Babel
Amelia running through the desert trying to save the white little girl Babel
Richard Jones weeping at the phone in the hospital Babel
Cate Blanchett as Susan Jones Babel
Amelia's nephew Santiago seen grim through windshield of their car Babel
Haruki's father, the Japanese businessman who gave Hassan, the Arab trader the rifle as a gift to show gratitude Babel
Donald Sutherland as Mr Bennet in the 2005 Universal film Pride and Prejudice
Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet for 2005 Universal film Pride and Prejudice
Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith rescued by Mr Knightley for 1996 BBC Emma
Mark Strong as Mr Knightley for 1996 BBC Emma
Claude Laydou on bicycle in Bresson's, 1955
Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet for 2005 Universal Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth Bennet for 1979 BBC Pride and Prejudice
Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet for 2005 Universal Pride and Prejudice
Jena Malone as Lydia Bennet for 2005 Universal Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Forbes (1859-1912) Woodland Scene (1885)
Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Forbes (1859-1912 Ring-a-Ring-o'Roses (1880)
Doran Goodwin as Emma in the BBC 1972 Emma, a typical expression on her face
Doran Goodwin as Emma in the BBC 1972 Emma, a rare outgoing expression: we see the intensities of her longing for she knows not what
Doran Goodwin as Emma in the BBC 1972 Emma, upset Christmas time, Mr Elton has taken her no to mean yes
Louise Labe, the traditional engraving, from the Librairie Droz edition by Enzo Giudici
Messrs Lackington Allen & Co, booksellers at the Temple of Muses, Finsbury Square, from Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufacture, and Politics, ca. 1808-1828)
1974 Malachi's Cove, Veronica Quilligan as Mally on the wild cliff
1974 Malachi's Cove, Veronica Quilligan as Mally gathering seaweed from the ocean
1987 BBC Northanger Abbey Catherine Schleisinger as Catherine Morland having sinister nightmares
1987 BBC Northanger Abbey
Elizabeth Nourse (1860-1938), The Closed Window 1910
Winter Solstice 2006
This year's tree with old editions of Fanny Burney's letters and memoirs, pictures of Laura and Isabel, wine, port in the background
1940 Pride and Prejudice, Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson as Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet
Angela Pleasance, Lady Bertram in the 1983 Mansfield Park shows the gothic part of her presence openly in gothic horror _Symptoms_
1983 Mansfield Park, Anna Massey as Mrs Norris
1986 Sense and Sensibility, Elinor (Irene Richards) and Edward (Bosco Hogan)
1986 Sense and Sensibility, Elinor (Irene Richards) and Edward (Bosco Hogan)
1986 Sense and Sensibility, Marianne Dashwood (Tracey Childs), Mrs Dashwood (Diana Fairfax) and Elinor Dashwood(Irene Richards)
1995 Sense and Sensibility, Elinor (Emma Thompson) and Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) walk in front of Norland Park
1995 Sense and Sensibility, Sir John Middleton (Robert Hardy) and Mrs Jennings (Elizabeth Spriggs) fall all over themselves in eager kindness
1995 Sense and Sensibility, Margaret Dashwood (Emilie Francois) delighted
1995 Sense and Sensibility, Willoughby (Gregg Wise) at end
1995 Sense and Sensibility, Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman) in final triumphant moment