Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines Medieval bound in gilt-stamped cloth

bound in gilt-stamped cloth

Shelley's was the result of a haunting vision: ''I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together

and therefore functioning

she created small handmade books

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines Medieval bound in gilt-stamped clothA treasure of a gift for the well read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolor and in word, of literature's most well read female characters. Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Daisy Buchanan each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn's evocative portraits and hand lettered quotations, with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written.