EVEN PRETTIER IN REALITY!

BLONDES have more fun -- it is, as Jane Austen would put it, "a truth universally acknowledged"! I certainly love the blonde hair color, made blonder today :-)

The mobile phone camera is not doing the color complete justice, I think, it's even prettier in reality!

Charles Dickens is the writer who excelled at producing unforgettable blonde women characters -- think Dora Spenlow from David Copperfield, Jenny Wren in Our Mutual Friend and Lucie Manet in A Tale of Two Cities. For the Victorians, the blonde stood for a number of antithetical images, such as the angel, the siren and the woman artist. For me, the most haunting literary representation of the blonde is found in A.S. Byatt's Possession, in Christabel La Motte and her descendant Maud Bailey. What an intriguing story!

Have a good Friday night, always with beauty and a book!

xxx