.jpg) |
| Flaming June, by Frederic, Lord Leighton |
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
About Me
I'm reading
- Gossip (Beth Gutcheon)
- Renoir, My Father (Jean Renoir)
- Life and Death in Pompeii (Paul Roberts)
- Collected Poems (Edward Thomas)
- The Knot (Jane Borodale)
- The Years (Virginia Woolf)
- Virginia Woolf (Alexandra Harris)
Films 2013
- The King of Marvin Gardens
- Scarecrow
- Chimpanzee
- Side Effects
Books Read 2013
- Patience (John Coates)
- The Tin Roof Blowdown (James Lee Burke)
- Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
- Barnaby Rudge (Charles Dickens)
- The Female Detective (Andrew Forrester)
- The Chessmen (Peter May)
- Mr Bridge (Evan S Connell)
- Mrs Bridge (Evan S Connell)
- Period Piece (Gwen Raverat)
- The Observations (Jane Harris)
- The Last Runaway (Tracy Chevalier)
- The Dinner (Herman Koch)
- The Thoughtful Dresser (Linda Grant)
- A Week in December (Sebastian Faulks)
- Half Blood Blues (Esi Edugyan)
- Love on the Supertax (Marghanita Laski)
Films 2012
- What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
- Catimini (Behind Closed Doors)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Liberal Arts
- Quartet
- Anna Karenina
- Shadow Dancer
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Woody Allen: A Documentary
- The Apartment
- Death Watch
- Le Havre
- Goodbye, First Love
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- A Separation
- The Artist
- The Iron Lady
Books Read 2012
- The Glass Room (Simon Mawer)
- What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved (John Mullan)
- Harriet (Elizabeth Jenkins)
- The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt)
- Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
- No Surrender (Constance Maud)
- In a Lonely Place (Dorothy B Hughes)
- An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- Hollywood Costume (Ed: Deborah Nadoolman Landis)
- The End of Your Life Book Club (Will Schwalbe)
- Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman)
- Jacob's Room (Virginia Woolf)
- Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
- Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris ... (Leanne Shapton)
- Try Anything Twice (Jan Struther)
- Wilfred and Eileen (Jonathan Smith)
- Celia Birtwell (Celia Birtwell)
- Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf)
- Night and Day (Virginia Woolf)
- David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
- The World's Wife (Carol Ann Duffy)
- The Blush (Elizabeth Taylor)
- Mrs Bridge (Evan S Connell)
- At the Jerusalem (Paul Bailey)
- The Expendable Man (Dorothy B Hughes)
- Into the Light: French and British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s (Ed: Sam Smiles)
- The Best of Everything (Rona Jaffe)
- Cakes and Ale (W Somerset Maugham)
- The Lifeboat (Charlotte Rogan)
- Modern, The Modern Movement in Britain (Alan Powers)
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Jeanette Winterson)
- A Card From Angela Carter (Susannah Clapp)
- At Mrs Lippincote's (Elizabeth Taylor)
- Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)
- A Bigger Message, Conversations with David Hockney (Martin Gayford)
- The Other Elizabeth Taylor (Nicola Beauman)
- The Lewis Man (Peter May)
- Abide with Me (Elizabeth Strout)
- Pure (Andrew Miller)
- Charles Dickens, A Life (Claire Tomalin)
- Half of the Human Race (Anthony Quinn)
- The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
- Hockney, the Biography (Christopher Simon Sykes)
- The Crowded Street (Winifred Holtby)
- Gillespie and I (Jane Harris)
- Oak (Stephen Taylor)
- Bricks and Mortar (Helen Ashton)
- The Paper Garden (Molly Peacock)
- The Odd Women (George Gissing)
- Terra Incognita, Travels in Antarctica (Sara Wheeler)
- Ghastly Business (Louise Levene)
Books Read 2011
- How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran)
- The Blackhouse (Peter May)
- On Canaan's Side (Sebastian Barry)
- Lady Audley's Secret (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
- Sky Burial (Xinran)
- Westwood (Stella Gibbons)
- On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46 (Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg)
- Brook Evans (Susan Glaspell)
- The Pattern in the Carpet (Margaret Drabble)
- The Christmas Truce (Carol Ann Duffy)
- The Last September (Elizabeth Bowen)
- Nemesis (Philip Roth)
- Our Spoons Came From Woolworths (Barbara Comyns)
- The Translation of the Bones (Francesca Kay)
- Some Tame Gazelle (Barbara Pym)
- A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)
- The Pregnant Widow (Martin Amis)
- Manja (Anna Gmeyner)
- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (Penelope Mortimer)
- The Finkler Question (Howard Jacobson)
- Doreen (Barbara Noble)
- The Dolls' House (Rumer Godden)
- My Ántonia (Willa Cather)
- Fidelity (Susan Glaspell)
- Hostages to Fortune (Elizabeth Cambridge)
- A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
- A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
- Making Conversation (Christine Longford)
- The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow (Mrs Oliphant)
- Farewell Leicester Square (Betty Miller)
- Miss Ranskill Comes Home (Barbara Euphan Todd)
- Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary (Ruby Ferguson)
- The Home-Maker (Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
- NY JS DB 62 (David Bailey)
- The Very Thought of You (Rosie Alison)
- The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
- The Surprising Life of Constance Spry (Sue Shephard)
- Flowers on the Grass (Monica Dickens)
- Brodeck's Report (Philippe Claudel)
- Stanley Spencer and the English Garden (Steven Parissien)
- The Group (Mary McCarthy)
- One Fine Day (Mollie Panter-Downes)
- The Tulip (Anna Pavord)
- Hancox: A House and a Family (Charlotte Moore)
- Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
- A Homemade Life (Molly Wizenberg)
- Collected Poems (Philip Larkin)
- Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
- So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
- Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
- Specimen Days (Michael Cunningham)
- Letters to Monica (Philip Larkin)
- The Whicharts (Noel Streatfeild)
- Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
- Dissolution (CJ Sansom)
- The Hare with Amber Eyes (Edmund de Waal)
- Fattypuffs and Thinifers (André Maurois)
- Earth & Heaven (Sue Gee)
- Miss Buncle's Book (DE Stevenson)
- The Berlin Novels (Christopher Isherwood)
- Mrs Parkington (Louis Bromfield)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
- Just Kids (Patti Smith)
- Haunts of the Black Masseur, The Swimmer as Hero (Charles Sprawson)
- The Long Song (Andrea Levy)
- The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West)
- Good Evening, Mrs Craven, The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
- The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
- Songs of Blue and Gold (Deborah Lawrenson)
- Wild Romance, The True Story of a Victorian Scandal (Chloë Schama)
- Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
- Children of the Archbishop (Norman Collins)
- Corrag (Susan Fletcher)
- Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
Books read 2010
- The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
- Operation Heartbreak (Duff Cooper)
- South Riding (Winifred Holtby)
- Tamara Drewe (Posy Simmonds)
- A Game of Hide and Seek (Elizabeth Taylor)
- Summer Will Show (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
- The Outward Room (Millen Brand)
- Family Roundabout (Richmal Crompton)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
- The Lacuna (Barbara Kingsolver)
- Beside the Sea (Véronique Olmi)
- Frost in May (Antonia White)
- Troubles (JG Farrell)
- 44 Scotland Street (Alexander McCall Smith)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
- London Belongs To Me (Norman Collins)
- Waterlog, A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain (Roger Deakin)
- The Swimmer (John Cheever)
- The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters (ed Charlotte Mosley)
- Tea with Mr Rochester (Frances Towers)
- The Hare with Amber Eyes (Edmund de Waal)
- Family Album (Penelope Lively)
- Because of the Lockwoods (Dorothy Whipple)
- Treasures of Time (Penelope Lively)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
- The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
- The Lollipop Shoes (Joanne Harris)
- A Dance to the Music of Time (Vol 3: The Acceptance World, Anthony Powell)
- The Greengage Summer (Rumer Godden)
- Oleander, Jacaranda (Penelope Lively)
- I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
- The Millstone (Margaret Drabble)
- Hearts and Minds (Amanda Craig)
- Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
- George Eliot, The Last Victorian (Kathryn Hughes)
- Brooklyn (Colm Tóibín)
- The Go-Between (LP Hartley)
- Thank Heaven Fasting (EM Delafield)
- Illyrian Spring (Ann Bridge)
- The Way Things Are (EM Delafield)
- Old Friends and New Fancies (Sybil G Brinton)
- Impressionist Gardens (Clare Willsdon)
- In the Gardens of Impressionism (Clare AP Willsdon)
- The Peachgrowers' Almanac (Elaine di Rollo)
- Every Good Deed (Dorothy Whipple)
- The Virago Book of Food, The Joy of Eating (ed Jill Foulston)
- The Flower of May (Kate O'Brien)
- Mildred Pierce (James M Cain)
- The Life of Cardinal Wolsey (George Cavendish)
- Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
- I Know My Own Heart, The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 (ed Helena Whitbread)
- Croc Attack (Assaf Gavron)
- Palladian (Elizabeth Taylor)
- The Thing Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Don't Tell Alfred (Nancy Mitford)
- Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
- The Winds of Heaven (Monica Dickens)
- The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
- A London Girl of the 1880s (MV Hughes)
- The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen)
- Their Finest Hour and a Half (Lissa Evans)
- The Widow Barnaby (Fanny Trollope)
- Flowers for Mrs Harris (Paul Gallico)
- Telling Tales (Alan Bennett)
- The Innocent (Ian McEwan)
- Changing My Mind (Zadie Smith)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
- Chronicles, Volume One (Bob Dylan)
- A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
- The Painter of Signs (RK Narayan)
- The Matchmaker (Stella Gibbons)
- Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)
- An Education (Lynn Barber)
- Late and Soon (EM Delafield)
- London's War, The Shelter Drawings of Henry Moore (Julian Andrews)
- Crossing to Safety (Wallace Stegner)
- Still Missing (Beth Gutcheon)
- Selected Diaries (Virginia Woolf)
- To Bed With Grand Music (Marghanita Laski)
Followers
4 comments:
Oh if only!
Leighton painted women with impossibly long femurs.
She is rather Amazonian, isn't she!
I love this painting, thank you, Ax
Post a Comment