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Village sign depicting the two green children of Woolpit, erected in 1977 [1] The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen (r. 1135–1154). The children, found ...
Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. [1] Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. [ 2 ]
[12]: 69 Smith maintained whenever Orlando's attempt to say that the sky is blue and the grass is green, instead brings images of women, nature, classical mythology and religion into his mind, thus highlighting Woolf's viewpoint that the natural are already encumbered with myths of and representations of women and their sexuality. Finally, the ...
Brice Marden created a number of works in red, yellow and blue in the early 1970s, influenced by Mondrian and by these paintings by Newman [19] In 2006, Robert Irwin installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Kerry James Marshall's 2012 exhibition "Who’s Afraid of Red, Black and Green" directly references Newman's works. [20]
The Question of Things Happening: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 2 1913 - 1922 (1976) A Change of Perspective: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 3 1923 - 1928 (1977) A Reflection of the Other Person: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 4 1929 - 1931 (1978) The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 5 1932 - 1935 (1979)
"The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books. The best-known volumes of the series are the 12 Fairy Books, each of which is distinguished by its own color.
The notion of "green" in modern European languages corresponds to light wavelengths of about 520–570 nm, but many historical and non-European languages make other choices, e.g. using a term for the range of ca. 450–530 nm ("blue/green") and another for ca. 530–590 nm ("green/yellow").
"Kew Gardens" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, [ 1 ] then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday , [ 1 ] and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House (1944).