Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. -- Edgar Allan Poe

Julia Stephen at the Bear, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 1889, taken by Gabriel Loppé. (Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.)
This was Vanessa Bell’s favorite photograph of her mother.
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