The Guardian online recently posted an interview and photo shoot with British actress Emily Mortimer that I absolutely adored, the nerdy fashionista that I am. Mortimer is styled as literary heroines and the shoot features life-size books as props and quotes from the novels that the inspired the styling. Not only is it a clever idea for a shoot, but a unique and fun way for the actress to showcase herself as icons such as Holly Golightly and Anna Karenina.

“They hadn’t tampered with her natural beauty, yet somehow they had succeeded in heightening it … She wore eye make-up and her hair was fuller, like a lion’s mane. She still looked every inch the lady, but she was exciting now.”
Valley Of The Dolls, Jacqueline Susann

“Her dress was richly trimmed with Venetian lace. In her black hair, all her own, she wore a little garland of pansies.”
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

“She wore a slim, cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker … Her mouth was large, her nose upturned. A pair of dark glasses blotted out her eyes.”
Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote

“A woman can never be too fine while she is all in white. No, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly proper.”
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

“I should put on my red dress and it would be thin as a veil … It would make a flower shape as I sank down, in the middle of the room, on a gilt chair.”
The Waves, Virginia Woolf

Inspired to curl up on the couch and catch up with one of your favorite literary heroines? Click on the book names above to add the classic to your personal library.

Source: The Guardian