Art and Austen

Julius LeBlanc Stewart -- Reading Aloud

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."   --Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

Bookish Art for August

Henri Matisse -- Les Trois Soeurs

"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same

first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, 

which no subsequent connections can supply." 

--Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

"There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy.

Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor,

to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be."

--Anonymous

Merci beaucoup, mes soeurs!!!