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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
Yellow starch was especially fashionable in the first few years of the seventeenth century, but fell rapidly from favour following a political scandal involving Anne Turner, who along with the Earl and Countess of Somerset was convicted of murdering Sir Thomas Overbury. Anne was hanged in 1615, her penchant for yellow ruffs receiving much attention
... See moreRuth Goodman • How to Be a Tudor
Johnny Storm: In the void, you're either food for Alioth or you work for her.
Deadpool: Go on, Johnny.
Johnny Storm: And I'll tell you who 'her' is: Cassandra Nova. A megalomaniacal, psychotic asshole. A finger licking dead-inside pixie slab of third rate dime-store nut-milk. And I'll tell you what she can do.
Deadpool: I'm listening.
Johnny Storm: She
... See moreCharlotte Brontë explained the decision to use male names: ‘We did not like to declare ourselves women, because – without at the time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called “feminine” – we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.’
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
In his will of 1588, William Lane of Chadwell, Essex, listed two lockram shirts (coarse, heavyweight), one ‘holland’ shirt (fine weight and bleached white) and his ‘marrying shirt’, which presumably was of the best quality and loaded with sentimental significance.