Margaret

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About me

Location Canada
Introduction I'm a historian with a passion for art, aesthetics and literature. Earthly Paradise is inspired by the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, classic literature and mythology and the writings of William Morris and the Romantic Poets.
Interests Art, Arthurian Legend, Arts and Crafts Movement, Bauhaus, Colombia, Cooking, Design, Diego Rivera, Economics, History, Interior Design, Opera, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphaelite Art, The Rossetti Circle, Roses, Ruskin, Karim Rashid, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Museums, Mythology, Philosophy, Picasso, Jane Morris, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lizzie Siddal, Technology, TED, John William Waterhouse, Violin, Salsa
Favorite Movies A Room with a View, Anne of Green Gables, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne of Avonlea, Atonement, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brideshead Revisited, Bringing Up Baby, Charade, Chariots of Fire, Cold Mountain, Henry V, It Happened One Night, Julie and Julia, Life is Beautiful, Life of Brian, Lord of the Rings, On the Waterfront, Out of Africa, Philadelphia Story, Rebecca, Sabrina
Favorite Music Classical, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Debussy, Joshua Bell, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Yo Yo Ma, Latin, Buena Vista Social Club, Diego Torres, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Juanes, Loreena McKennitt, Luis Miguel, Sergio Mendes
Favorite Books Nonfiction, A Moveable Feast, Beatrix Potter, Byron, Chaucer, Chronicles of Narnia, Edith Wharton, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Great Gatsby, Keats, Shakespeare, Tennyson, A Little Princess, Brideshead Revisited, Treasure Island, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Arthur and His Knights, Knights of the Round Table, Rebecca, The Earthly Paradise, The Little Prince, The Prince, Philip Pullman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

Yes!