Cate Lombardo 📚
@bleuroses
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“Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.” ― Jean Rhys
California
Joined September 2009
But How, How to Occupy Life? Paris Review Newsletter.
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July 31, 2025 – “I gave myself permission to ruin a film, it didn’t matter to me.”
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RT @ahistoryinart: In the years after her move to Cornwall in 1907 there was nowhere more inspiring to Laura Knight than the cliffs above t….
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RT @manderleypress: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”.- William Morris https://t.….
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RT @SineadEOShea: I wrote an article about reading the diaries of Edna O'Brien for The Guardian ahead of our release in UK cinemas on April….
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Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring
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RT @ahistoryinart: Thomas Cantrell Dugdale's portrait (c1935) is of Dame Wendy Hillier in her role as Sally Hardcastle, the mill girl ready….
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On Helen Garner’s Diaries
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March 3, 2025 – “In my heart,” Garner has said, “I always liked my diary better than anything else I wrote.”
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RT @heather_nanni: “We walked at night toward a café blooming with Japanese lanterns, white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness….
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RT @Ravilious1942: On #InternationalWomensDay I wanted to once again pay tribute to Tirzah Garwood, Eric Ravilious’ wife. They met when she….
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RT @holdengraber: “That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passi….
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RT @radzpandit: Today on my blog, a new post on lonely women in literature highlighting thirteen favourite books. .
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RT @JacquiWine: With February's #ReadIndies event just a few days away, I’ve written about ten favourite books from independent publishers.….
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RT @manderleypress: She’s here, and she’s gorgeous! Mary Shelley in Bath - introduced by Fiona Sampson and illustrated by Eleanor Macnair.….
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RT @louisatreger: ‘Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.’. ~ S….
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RT @KamilaKansy: Riders of Hope. *. Above the tempestuous sea of human sorrow, pain, and solitude, someone carries a flame of Hope. https:/….
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RT @manderleypress: “When she had finished she sat back on her heels and looked at her parcels. They really did look nice! White-paper-wrap….
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RT @manderleypress: Happy birthday to Rosemary Sutcliff - one of my favourite childhood authors. I’m so honoured to have republished one of….
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“Jeg har skrevet hele mit liv og nærer en romantisk drøm om at dø midt i en sætning.”.― Tove Ditlevsen. "I have written all my life and have a romantic dream of dying in the middle of a sentence.". Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (14 December 1917 – 7 March 1976)
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