Women Reading

plaisirdelire:

Ann Dvorak, Three on a Match, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932.

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The love letter by François Martin-Kavel

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life:

Her sex-symbol image aside, Marilyn Monroe was an avid reader of 20th-century literature and was often photographed curling up with a book, as in this Peter Stackpole shot taken at her Hollywood home in 1953.

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poboh:

Twilight: Interior, Reading by lamplight, ca 1909, Sir George Clausen. English Realist Painter (1852 - 1944)

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jeffvoorhees:

Pam.  Books.  Tea.

It’s the simple things that make it all worthwhile.

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petitpoulailler:

1877 Winslow Homer (American 1836-1910), The New Novel [detail].

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