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On the 26th of September 1905, Jeanne Clémence Weil, mother of writer Marcel Proust, died in Ile de France, Paris. Madame Proust, as she was to be known, seeing as Marcel never got married, was ...
https://artlark.org/2022/09/26/proust-and-his-mother-a-special-relationship/
On the 30th of August 1797, English novelist Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley was born in London. She was the wife and muse of Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, daughter of politic...
https://artlark.org/2022/08/30/the-tragedies-of-mary-shelley/
On the 26th of August 1898, American matron and collector of the arts Peggy Guggenheim was born in New York. “Peggy Guggenheim was one of ten children-the second of three daughters-born to Benj...
On the 31st of July 1919, the Italian Jewish chemist and writer Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy. A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, he emerged after the war as one of the most in...
https://artlark.org/2022/07/31/primo-levi-chemistry-and-the-holocaust/
On the 28th of July 1866, Helen Beatrix Potter, English author of the Peter Rabbit children’s books, was born in Kensington, London. Less known is her career as a naturalist and realist artist....
https://artlark.org/2022/07/28/beatrix-potter-nature-as-first-and-last-resort/
On the 16th of July 1951, The Catcher in the Rye, a novel by J. D. Salinger was published by Little, Brown and Company in the United States. Initially intended for an adult audience, the book soo...
https://artlark.org/2022/07/16/censorship-in-salingers-the-catcher-in-the-rye/
On the 4th of July 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in London. Written by Victorian author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, author, ma...
https://artlark.org/2022/07/04/alice-in-wonderland-and-photography/
On the 27th of June 1880, the remarkable American author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, which she wrote ...
https://artlark.org/2022/06/27/beyond-sound-and-vision-helen-keller-and-the-story-of-her-life/
On the 25th of June 1903, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic Eric Arthur Blair, known by the pen name George Orwell, was born in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India. Regard...
https://artlark.org/2022/06/25/george-orwells-reminiscences-of-childhood/
On the 11th of June 1877, English poet Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn) was born in London to a wealthy British father and an American mother. She adopted her French name at the age of twen...
https://artlark.org/2022/06/11/renee-vivien-the-misunderstood-lesbian-sonneteer/