Illustration from L.E.L.’s Heath’s Book of Beauty, 1833

LEL: The Forgotten Fairy Queen of the Romantics

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By Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman “She was tall; —a queen might wear Such a proud imperial air; She was tall, yet when unbound, Swept her...

To Quicken The Beatings of The Heart: Reanimating that Romantic Night...

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Surely the most lush and extravagant creative-writing workshop in history played out in June 1816 at Lord Byron’s summer rental on Lake Geneva. It...
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1817, by Caspar David Friedrich

Know Your Romantic Man

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The men who wrote history’s most luscious movement into being had personalities as big as their characters’. They believed in genius and expected it...
Annie Oakley - famous rifle shot and holder of the Police Gazette championship medal

When Annie Oakley Kicked Hearst’s Ass

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America’s favorite sharpshooter suffered a sugary makeover in Hollywood and Broadway depictions, which depicted her as someone willing to throw matches and stomach bratty...
Photography by Kyle Cassidy, Strange Star Mary Shelley, A One-Woman Show by Jennifer Summerfield

Strange Star

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Interview by Carolyn Turgeon Photography by Kyle Cassidy Strange Star Mary Shelley, A One-Woman Show by Jennifer Summerfield “Don’t leave it to the men to write my...
Photography by Courtney Fox

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

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Photography by Courtney Fox   What sweeter balm than nature to soothe the lonely soul? In this poem, Wordsworth gives his readers a Romantic description of...
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, 1824, by Caspar David Friedrich

An Ode to Dark Romanticism

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The old woman could be seen as a shadow against skeletal trees that scratched at a threatening sky, for she took solace in late...

Wild Irish Girl

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About the Feature image: Engraving of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, 1846, by Samuel Freeman, after John Comerford. Image courtesy The National Photographic Archive, National...

Child of Love and Light

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Feature image: Portait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1831, by Samuel John Stump "I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump...
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden

The Quest

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Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden You watch from the forest path as she emerges from the heavy oak door of her cottage and ventures straight...