Victoria Grainger

“to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”🤍 #VirginiaWoolf 🎨#Shakespeare Buying a Book from a Bookstall in St Paul's Churchyard London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⛪️📚 #WilliamHatherell 1922

“Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants…” The shepherd’s son #TheWintersTale🌼 🎨Hot Cross Buns by #AnnaPlatts🥯!😋 🤍#EasterShakespeare👩🏻‍🍳🫶🏻

@Booksmiscellany I know what you mean, and he is at his particularly snidey best here ha ha, but that's why this is so amazing too I think, how she stands up to it all with such intelligence and, no-nonsense graceful steeliness! 🤍If you do watch, enjoy! Happy Easter weekend Susan🙏🌺☕️🫖🐇

@VGrainger Thank you Victoria. I missed this the other day. I don't think the Notifications are working properly lately. I've never watched the full interview because I dislike Tynan so much. He picked her as an icon to pull down and tried to destroy her career. I should watch it though.

#ShakespeareSunday #VivieñLeigh Happy Shakespeare Sunday: An interpretation of Vivien Leigh as Titania in the 1937 stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Handmade card in my collection.

@LegatWriter 🤍My pleasure Anna I look forward to reading it!🫶📚

@VGrainger Thank you, Victoria! He's fascinating. Stańczyk will feature in my third Copernicus book set during the final war with the Teutonic Order under Sigismund the Old. (If I ever write it!)

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”  Touchstone, As You Like It🌲 🎨Touchstone by #JWWaterhouse💛 #AprilFoolsDay🤡 #AprilFoolsDayShakespeare🙃

🎨Prolific illustrator of #Shakespeare, the wonderful #WalterCrane’s illustration ‘Hot Cross Buns’💜🥯✝️ #EasterShakespeare🐇

@LegatWriter 🤡🤍 Anna may I present 🎨‘Stańczyk’ by Jan Matejko 1862❤️ Such an incredibly fascinating, real, Polish court jester c1480 – 1560, in this stunning painting the only one at the royal ball at all concerned by the Muscovites having captured Smolensk 1514! #GetWriting..✍🏼😉🙏🏻!📕🫶🏻

@VGrainger I always wanted to write a book featuring a real jester.

“The April’s in her eyes. It is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful!” #Shakespeare’s Antony #AntonyAndCleopatra🐍 🎨Cleopatra on the terraces of Philae 💕 by Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1896

@heather_nanni 💕🌸Beautiful🍃🫶🏻

“Nothing is lost, it is all as it used to be, Unopened lilacs are still as deep a purple, The boughs of the elm are dancing still in a veil of tiny leaves. Nothing is lost but a few years from my life.” ~ Sara Teasdale #poetrycommunity #poetry

“The parrot will not do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab” #Shakespeare’s Thersites #TroilusAndCressida💋 🎨The Green Parrot by #VanGogh 💚🦜

“Youth to itself rebels…” Laertes to Ophelia, #Hamlet💀 🎨📸‘Tiny Rebels’ window art ❤️!🧒🏼🧢 spotted in Stratford-upon-Avon🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦢

@Booksmiscellany 🤍 Such character & intelligence as well as beauty, love her on this Susan, maybe I got it from you (!) I can’t remember but love this interview.. you’ve probably seen it but just in case.. 🫶🏻m.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcnX7…

@VGrainger Thank you. I bought it from an American craft seller on Etsy. It cost me quite a lot for the postage but I was very pleased with it. It's sad that Leigh seems more appreciated in America than here, also in France and Spain.

@Booksmiscellany Oh that’s lovely Susan 🍝🤞🏻🤍!🙏🏻

@VGrainger They do look very nice. Shame about the boat mats. I did see some pasta bowls I might get. Not quite large enough but I have been cutting down on portions of pasta lately, so they might be OK.

Vintage Denby Stoneware ‘Heart of England’ mug with hand drawn images of Coventry Cathedral, Ironbridge, and of course, #Shakespeare🤍 #SaveDenby🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫶🏻 #ShakespearePottery☕️🫖🦢

@Booksmiscellany Absolutely 🤍🫶🏻🙏🏻

@VGrainger What a wonderful woman she was.

“I read #Shakespeare directly I have finished writing. When my mind is agape and red-hot. Then it is astonishing...how amazing his stretch and speed and word coining power is” #VirginiaWoolf🤍 📷George Charles Beresford’s beautiful image of Virginia taken in 1902 when she was 20

🎨Holy Trinity Church ⛪️ Stratford-upon-Avon by Sidney Corner 1869🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@EricMauroSG Absolute pleasure Eric! It’s amazing 🤍👏🏻 I came across a Cymbeline painting with I think stained glass painted in behind Imogen & thought of you, I must find it & post🪟!💕🙏🏻

@VGrainger Thank you for reposting! I gave up scrolling for a bit but just checked back in. Sweet of you!

“The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.” — from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

@Booksmiscellany 🍽🤍! I liked these boat mats but sold out! (👏🏻) These Tiffany coasters look quite lovely🌹 Happy searching Susan 🫶🏻

@VGrainger I do need some new place mats. I will have to look again.

@heather_nanni ! Wow x Stunning line Heather. Mary does it again🤍🍃🌸🎼🫶🏻

@VGrainger Funny. I just read this poem this morning . . . “In all the works of Beethoven, you will not find a single lie.” From “Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way” by Mary Oliver

🎨#Shakespeare’s Miranda by #JWWaterhouse🌬🌊 And, 🎼#Beethoven’s so-called “#TheTempest” Piano Sonata No. 17, Op. 31, No. 2 played by Galina Efimova🤍 As if Waterhouse’s Miranda had wandered from the shore & sat down to play, this is wonderful🎹🎧…m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrgRrZ…

@ShaneSm46713498 🤍!🫶🏻 Down to the dress!👗😍

@VGrainger Beautiful painting, music and yes, she's a dead ringer! 🖼️🎶🤩