How the remarkable Loving sisters made Fort Worth their home in the 1870s

The three Loving sisters moved to Fort Worth from Mississippi in the 1870s. They are buried next to each other in Oakwood ...
Yahoo

‘Ammonite’: Filmmaker Francis Lee On Directing Rebellious 19th Century Love Story & “The Stillness” In Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan – Crew Call Podcast

For filmmaker Francis Lee, his lesbian love story Ammonite between notable 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning and socialite Charlotte Murchison wasn’t so much a response to the uber-conservative ...
Jezebel

19th Century Love Letter Holds Up

“When I started to work on the arm, I could see a small note, tightly folded up, about the size of a penny. When I opened it, to my amazement it was a note written in pencil, in old French.” What the ...
Post and Courier

Review: 'Normal People' harkens to 19th century literature to tell compelling contemporary love story

NORMAL PEOPLE. By Sally Rooney. Hogarth. 273 pages. $26. “Conversations with Friends” (2017), Sally Rooney’s first novel, came out of nowhere, like a great gulp of something fresh and young. Now comes ...
The New York Times

Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania. Sometimes a ...