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Shakespeare Gardens Around the World Honor the Playwright—and Hold Their Own Storied History

The curated plots of flowers, herbs and trees serve as windows into Shakespeare’s work and life

by Mary Randolph

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/shakespeare-gardens-around-the-world-honor-the-playwright-and-hold-their-own-storied-history-180988497/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64102

Illustration from Walter Crane's 1906 book, Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden. A young woman in a pink Regency-style dress and wide-brimmed floral hat kneels in a garden, gathering an armful of vividly coloured flowers — daisies, poppies, irises, marigolds and more — before a marble bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal, set against dark topiary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare_garden.jpg

‘The Queen of the Ghetto’ Gave New York’s Immigrant Community a Voice. A Century Later, It’s Re-emerging

Anzia Yezierska wrote from experience then worked hard to make sure her work found an audience. Then a new audience found her

by Fred Nadis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/queen-ghetto-gave-new-york-immigrant-community-voice-century-later-reemerging-180988409/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Women immigrants at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2680

Sketch of the author Anzia Yezierska accompanying an article in the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, March 5th, 1921. The central illustration is a large pen-and-ink portrait drawing of Yezierska — captioned "Anzia Yezierska: Filmdom's Newest Author" — showing a young woman with abundant curly hair, alongside a smaller vignette of a figure writing at a desk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzia_Yezierska#/media/File:Yezierska_CedarRapids_5Mar1921.jpg

"He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in."

I'm currently engrossed in Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The lathe of heaven', constantly reminded of what she said in the introduction to 'The left hand of darkness': "I write science fiction, and science fiction isn’t about the future."