Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines Manuscripts

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines ManuscriptsA 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.

now part of the Helmsley Palace Hotel in Manhattan

ceaselessly recorded the world around him

handshakes

personal diary entries

—Wall Street Journal

in which the artist freely mixed artworks and objects from the Morgan Library & Museum’s famed collections

Perhaps The Evil Garden is a morality tale

and surface decoration all documented with utmost sensitivity and accuracy

a copywriter working at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co

Turner (1775–1851)

Berry Apocalypse: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document

an emphatic gesture with the arm