From Sappho’s ancient call-to-action, "become a voice," to Virginia Woolf’s call for intellectual freedom in A Room of One's Own, these foundational writers had a remarkable impact on future generations. Our illustrations are a visual ode to these visionary women, and our way of drawing attention to the immense contribution women writers have made.
"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
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"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Are't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. • 11x14 inch art print with...
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"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...
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"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...
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"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passion...
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...
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"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. • 11x14 inch art print ...
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"To sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine." - Lucy Maud Montgomery Despite all of the misfortunes and challenges, Anne...
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...
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"I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen The letter has arrived! But what fortune will it bring? What word? Happiness or ruin? • 11x14 inch ...
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"Have you ever heard the earth breathe?" - Kate Chopin With a little assistance from the wind, the branches and a bird work together to reveal a l...
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"The libraries of the world are thrown open to me." - Mary Shelley From the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley. • 11x14 inch art print with whi...
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"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...
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"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...
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"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, ...
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"It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine." - Frances Hodgson Burnett A peek through a keyhole reveals a hidden, m...
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"The truth is simple, so we complicate the journey." - George Sand From her collected letters. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premi...
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"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...
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"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...
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" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen The opening...
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"No use kicking, boys." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman It’s three minutes to midnight and she’s kicking off the shackles of history. Now it’s time for...
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"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes." - Colette The curve of a dress meets the promise of an arresting st...
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"What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?" - Harriet Beecher Stowe From her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. • 11x14 inch ar...
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