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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day
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Title page of the book Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1 by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin A title page from a small 18th-century printed book on cream paper, text centred in varying type sizes: Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Below a ruled line: Dublin: Printed by Thomas Burnside, for J. Rice, 111, Grafton-Street. 1798. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67847/pg67847-images.html
What Oral Histories Reveal About Women’s Pursuit of Economic Independence
by Rachel F. Seidman
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Le Corbeau = The Raven Author: Edgar Allan Poe Illustrator: Édouard Manet Translator: Stéphane Mallarmé A dark silhouetted figure stands at an open window or door, face in profile, looking outward with an expression of alarm or awe. A large black bird — a raven — flies in through the opening from a stormy, sketchy exterior landscape with indistinct forms suggesting rooftops or gravestones. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14082/pg14082-images.html
Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination
Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.
By: Danny Robb
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Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, 1633 by Rembrandt. A dark Baroque oil painting dominated by deep browns and blacks, with a single luminous figure at centre-left. An elderly bearded man in magnificent gold-embroidered priestly robes and a jewelled veil or mitre stands reading from an open book on a lectern, his bare feet visible beneath his vestments. A shaft of pale light descends from the upper right into the surrounding darkness. To the right, a richly draped table holds a golden ewer and a staff. Heavy red drapery fills the left background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_Zacharias_in_the_Temple#/media/File:Rembrandt_-_Zacharius-vis-high-res-sRGB.jpg
Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
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Thompson, John Hunter; Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855); Bronte Parsonage Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/charlotte-bronte-18161855-21013
#OTD in 1839, Charlotte Bronte declines Reverend Henry Nussey’s marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her “romantic and eccentric” and not practical enough to be a clergyman’s wife.
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The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth is worth to visit.
We're the home of the famous Brontë sisters. Explore the house they grew up in and learn the story of these incredible writers. thanks @agturcz@circumstances.run
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Some of the women diarists featured in the new anthology. Top row, left to right: Ada Blackjack, Anne Clifford, Florence Nightingale, Fanny Burney and Anna Dostoyevskaya. Bottom row, left to right: Elizabeth Fry, Cynthia Asquith, Beatrice Webb, Charlotte Forten Grimké and Virginia Woolf A collage of portraits and photographs of ten women from different historical periods, arranged in overlapping layers against a muted purple-grey background. The images mix oil paintings, sepia photographs, and black-and-white photographs spanning roughly four centuries of dress and style. Top row includes a grainy photograph, a Renaissance-style portrait with a large gold ruff collar, a Victorian photograph, a painted portrait with a wide-brimmed hat, and a formal photographic portrait. Bottom row shows a soft painted portrait in a white cap, two Edwardian-era black-and-white photographs, a later Victorian photograph, and a young woman in profile in a white blouse. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain
What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?
by Sarah Gristwood
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The Brontë sisters, painted by Branwell Brontë (in order: Anne, Emily and Charlotte). An oil portrait of the Brontë sisters grouped closely together against a dark background, with a pale yellowish column or pillar visible behind the central figure. All three have dark auburn curly hair and pale complexions with direct, serious expressions. Anne wears grey-blue; Emily, set slightly back, wears green; Charlotte wears dark brown-black with a grey collar. A book or papers rest on a surface in the foreground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#/media/File:The_Bront%C3%AB_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bront%C3%AB_restored.jpg
The Captivating Saga Behind the Only Known Portrait of the Brontë Sisters
by Katie White
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A group of Forest ants on a white cloth
Every ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies
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Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie John Opie - Tate Britain An oil portrait of Wollstonecraft against a near-black background. She has loosely curled ash-blonde hair held back by a white bandeau. Her gaze is direct and composed. She wears a deep teal draped garment with a white fichu at the neckline, and rests one hand on an open book. A quill and inkwell are visible to the upper left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft#/media/File:MaryWollstonecraft.jpg
Celebrating Women’s History Month
We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.
By The Editors
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Inside The Tunguska Event, The Astronomical Explosion That Rocked Russia In 1908
The largest impact event in Earth's recorded history, the Tunguska explosion occurred in the skies above Russia on June 30, 1908, causing massive destruction.
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Dr. Albert Einstein writes out an equation for the density of the Milky Way on the blackboard at the Carnegie Institute, Mt. Wilson Observatory headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 14, 1931. A black-and-white photograph of Einstein with wild white hair and a thick moustache, wearing a tweed jacket, writing on a blackboard with chalk. He turns his head toward the camera with a lively, alert expression. The equation R_ik = 0 is written in large chalk letters on the dark board behind him, with additional partially visible equations above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#/media/File:Albert_Einstein_writing_on_a_blackboard_in_Pasadena_(1931).jpg
How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of “where” and “when”
by Ethan Siegel
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The novelist George Sand is photographed by Nadar, who takes a series of pictures of the writer in March 1864. Sand has dark, tightly curled hair pinned up, and wears drop earrings. Her expression is calm and self-possessed. She is dressed in a wide-sleeved striped cape or mantle with dark trim over a dark high-necked blouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand#/media/File:George_Sand_by_Nadar,_1864.jpg
Becoming George by Fiona Sampson review – the remarkable story of a cross-dressing 19th century novelist
by Anthony Cummins
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!["The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art.[1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials.[2] Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.[3]" - wikipedia.org](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:53dildgigsgky47b45hm4lbz/bafkreievyhjp33ag6gkhpp7eb7eetyukhkyhuvuet6eyideuhfyqrhsfwi@jpeg)
"The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art.[1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials.[2] Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.[3]" - wikipedia.org
8 Famous Women Painters Who Shaped Art History
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Snowy owl, Plate Number CXXI (121) by Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 A large-format hand-coloured engraving showing two snowy owls perched on the branches of a dead tree against a dark, stormy nocturnal sky with moonlit clouds. The upper bird is predominantly white with minimal dark markings and bright yellow eyes, shown in an upright perched posture. The lower bird is larger and more heavily barred with dark brown-black patterning across its white plumage, also with vivid yellow eyes, leaning forward in a more alert, watchful stance. The dead tree is rendered in naturalistic detail with textured bark and lichen. https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll33/id/125/rec/23
The £7.5m book at centre of Small Prophets plot
Birds of America, published in the mid-19th Century by ornithologist artist John James Audubon, is one of the library's more valuable treasures.
by Marc Waddington
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8-inch (200 mm), 5.25-inch (130 mm), and 3.5-inch (90 mm) floppy disks George Chernilevsky - Own work Three floppy disks of decreasing size arranged overlapping on a white surface. The largest, at the back left, is a black flexible square disk with a silver label reading "EC5274 SS/SD" and Cyrillic text. The middle disk is orange-red with a white label reading "boedem FLOPPY DISK 5,25" HD,DS". The smallest, at the front right, is a rigid blue plastic disk with a black sliding metal shutter and a label reading "WRITE ENABLE / WRITE PROTECT." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jp
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.
by Mack DeGeurin
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Screenshot from Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902). Georges Méliès — Roger-Viollet A black-and-white film still showing the Moon depicted as a large human face with expressive features — eyes, a nose, and an open mouth — occupying most of the frame. A cylindrical rocket or projectile is embedded directly in the Moon's right eye. A dark starry sky forms the background. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s#/media/Fichier:Le_Voyage_dans_la_lune.jpg
Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack
The Library of Congress has found and restored a long-lost silent film by Georges Méliès.
by Chloe Veltman
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Two bookshelves with many hardback and some softback books
Today's DP (Distributed Proofreaders) blog, "My 25 Years at Distributed Proofreaders", is about one DP volunteer's experience.
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Genre painting by Michaelina Wautier (Dutch title: Elk zijn meug), The Phoebus Foundation. An oil painting depicting two children against a dark, neutral background. The foreground figure is a fair-skinned child with loose, curly auburn hair, wearing a voluminous white draped garment. The child holds a partially eaten boiled egg with a small spoon in one hand, and turns their head slightly to the left with a wide-eyed, slightly queasy or reluctant expression. Behind and to the right stands a second child with darker, dishevelled hair and a dark jacket with a white collar, leaning in and looking down attentively at the first child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelina_Wautier#/media/File:Elk_zijn_meug.jpg
17th-Century Painter Michaelina Wautier Was Almost Lost to History. Will Blockbuster Shows Juice Her Market?
by Eileen Kinsella
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