num_pages: 112
description: A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits in watercolour and in word of literature's most well-read female characters. Anna Karenina Clarissa Dalloway Daisy Buchanan...each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn's evocative portraits and hand-lettered quotations with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written. The book itself evokes vintage grace re-imagined for contemporary taste with a cloth spine silk-screened in a graphic pattern debossed cover and pages that turn with the tactile satisfaction of watercolour paper. In the hand and in the reading here is a new classic for the book lover's library.
language: English
title: Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines
publisher: Chronicle Books