Cynthia Grow
Love Letters
Collection of love letters written by historical figures and famous lovers throughout the ages. See text for more about the work.
Acrylic and graphite on vintage book and paper, 23 x 31 cm.
Simone de Beauvoir to Jean-Paul Sartre, Wednesday [27 July 1938]
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet, Croisset, Friday 10 p.m. 18 September 1846
Marcel Proust to Antoine Bibesco, [1904]
Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller, 9 March 1932
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry, Saturday night, 18 May, 1917
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 p.m. Saturday, [postmark 12 September 1846]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning, Sunday [postmark 14 September 1846]
Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, Courtfield Gardens, 20 May 1895
John Keats to Fanny Brawne, [Monday 11 October 1819]
Lord Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, Sy even, April 1812
Walter Bagehot to Elizabeth Wilson, Herd's Hill, 22 November 1857
Jane Clairmont to Lord Byron, 1815