The Letter – Pierre Bonnard (c.1906)
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Three years apart in age, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower were both formed as writers by the fact of being Australian-born women.
‘The Dyings have been too deep for me,’ Dickinson wrote in 1884.
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190 years after her birth, Dickinson’s life reminds us of how to confront the depths of loss with courage and hope.
Leonard Cohen pictured in July 2008. His 2016 letter to his ‘muse’ Marianne Ihlen went viral after his death in the same year.
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Leonard Cohen’s letter to his former girlfriend on her death bed became a viral phenomenon. But the words that circulated on social media were a paraphrased version, not his own.