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Charlotte Brontë's literary hero was William Makepeace Thackeray. She dedicated Jane Eyre to him. Charlotte didn’t know that Thackeray had a mad wife he kept confined in his home. Many in London society assumed this Currer Bell knew Thackeray & modeled Rochester on him.
Good night, dear magical Twitter folk. Tonight I will leave you with this illustration by Claire Fletcher.
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is the perfect book for any age. It addresses creation, the war between good and evil, redemption, and transfiguration in one beloved tale. I have loved it since age seven and have long wished to write something similar.
- Patti Smith
How I like to imagine myself when I'm reading
(illustration by Deborah Hocking)
Author & illustrator James Marshall, best known for creating the George & Martha series, died #OTD in 1992. Maurice Sendak called him the "last of a long line of masters."
I don't want to grow up. I want to be a squirrel reading in a tree.
(art by Olivia Chin Mueller)
There are some days in this mad world that you just want to be the sleeping little dormouse.
(illustration by John Tenniel)
I can't read Bread and Jam for Frances and not want bread and jam. In fact, I think I will go and have some now.
(illustrations by Lillian Hoban)