Carrie, Mary and Laura Ingalls, approx. 1880 Laura Ingalls Wilder hardly needs introduction. Born in 1867 in Wisconsin, she and her fa...

Dark-haired Beauty by Alexeievich Harlamoff Gemma Roselli is a young Italian girl living in Frankfurt, Germany, and working in her famil...

Statue of Kristen Lavransdatter, Sil, Norway Set in medieval Norway, the story of Kristen Lavransdatter is so rich in the understanding...

Dalva, portrait by Jim Harrison The story of Dalva Northridge is both contemporary and ageless. The main character in two books by Jim H...

Tina Modotti 1924, by Edward Weston Tina Modotti was at the center of artistic and revolutionary movements in Mexico from 1923 to 1930. ...

Mikhail Sholokhov’s books, translated as And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea , written 1926-1940, turn on one of the ...

Katherine Mansfield The child Kezia Burnell stands in for the writer Katherine Mansfield in her family stories “Prelude” and “At the Bay...