Romancing Autumn
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Photography by Bridget Beth Collins @flora.forager
Golden trees, gray skies. Autumn is the season of mystery. Eerie nights, liminal days. A time when the...
An Excerpt from The Girl in the Bog by Keith Donohue
Keith Donohue’s new novel, The Girl in the Bog, brings ancient Irish myths and legends into the modern world.
A present-day Irish farmer discovers the...
Paradise Grows
Herein lie gardens to dazzle the senses and boggle the mind. Some are meant for a community, some just for you; in a few,...
A Sentiment of Sunflowers
You are no doubt expecting me to expound on the romance of flowers in Victorian art, but I think I shall instead start with...
Elizabethan Flower Magic: Oberon’s Trick in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”—Oberon...
Cat Women
“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
—Bobbie Ann Mason, “Residents and Transients”
Women and cats have a long history together,...
Enchanted Hinds and Cursed Stags Fairy Tales of Deer and Transformation
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The White Stag by Annie Stegg @anniestegg
You’re walking through the woods one day, just as twilight stars begin to shimmer through the leaves.
Everything...
Once
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Princess Sabra, or The King’s Daughter (1865), by Edward Burne-Jones
Once there was a story
that lost its end.
It turned in tepid circles
grasping ideas &...
The Shimmer of Gold Leaf
Illuminated manuscripts—handcrafted medieval books—captivate with their vivid colors and intricate details, offering a tangible connection to a time when images were scarce and reproduction was a sacred art.
Sherry L. Ross’s Collection of Books & Bookish Things
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To honor Enchanted Living’s magnificent spring 2024 Book Lovers issue, I'm going to share from my personal collection of books and bookish things … over 40 years...