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Hair locks of Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Siddal's hair is from the Mark Lasner Collection, University of Delaware.

Rossetti's hair is from the Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Photo taken at The Rossettis: Radical Romantics exhibition at Tate Britain, August 2023.

-Raphaelite -raphaelites

#literaryheritage #hair #siddal #rossetti #poetry #painting #tate #tatebritain #exhibition #pre

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Interesting new exhibition, Poets in Vogue, at the National Poetry Library, co-curated by my colleague @DrSarahParker. Poets featured are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and the clothes-performances of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

theguardian.com/fashion/2023/f

#literaryheritage #poetry #fashion #exhibition

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'To the Lakes'

wordsworth.org.uk/to-the-lakes

This looks like an exciting new exhibition at Wordsworth Grasmere on tourism in the Lake District 200 years ago and the changes that William and Dorothy Wordsworth witness in their lifetime.

#literaryheritage #tourism #history #lakedistrict #cumbria #grasmere #Wordsworth

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23 Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill (May 2005), where W. B. Yeats lived as a boy from 1867 to 1873, and where Sylvia Plath died on 11 February 1963.

#1963

#dotd #poetry #SylviaPlath #wbyeats #literaryheritage #literaryplaces #primrosehill #london #anniversary

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'It was my love that did us both to death''.

Sylvia Plath died on this day sixty years ago.

#1963

#dotd #SylviaPlath #poetry #literaryheritage #englishliterature

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tseliot.com/, hosted by SET Copyrights (aka the T. S. Eliot Estate), has been growing into a veritable treasure trove of texts and materials documenting the life and work of the poet. According to a Facebook post of the T. S. Eliot International Summer School, the website will on Monday publish the Emily Hale letters.

#tseliot #emilyhale #modernism #letters #archive #literaryheritage

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The great Centenary year has now ended, but just before Christmas Modernism/Modernity published an interesting "Cluster" on "Modernist Centenaries, Anniversaries, and Commemorations", wonderfully put together, and introduced, by @afrayn

modernismmodernity.org/forums/

#modernism #anniversary #Centenary #commemoration #literaryheritage

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Schwesternhaus vom Rotenkreuz in Fluntern, Zurich (c 1925), where James Joyce died on 13 January 1941.

(image source: wiedenmeier.ch/wordpress/2014/)

#otd #joyce #modernism #englishliterature #literaryheritage #zurich

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