S. J. Wintering
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since: 12-06-07, id: 591524, Profile Updated: 05-07-13
country: Canada
Author has written 5 stories for Historical, and General.

Hi there!

I'm a 21-year-old who is convinced that her soul is yet older, and my hobbies consist mainly of writing, drawing/painting, reading, playing/watching tennis, and making plans that are too sensational for me to achieve in this world. In short, my life plan is "Someday."

A little trivia about myself: I'm trilingual (Polish, French, English), I'm quiet but not shy, I'm brooding but not insane, and I have a lifelong love affair with art!

Favourite Quotes:

"I can do whatever I want, I'm eccentric!"

-John Cleese

"Don't ever talk down to people, because it never works out..."

-Judd Nelson

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

-Henry David Thoreau

Favourite Books - so far: Jane Eyre, The Professor, Emma, Mansfield Park, The Woman in White, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Madame Bovary, The Portrait of a Lady, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Thirteenth Tale, Great Expectations, North and South, An Ideal Husband, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Revolutionary Road, Walden, Middlesex, Interview with the Vampire, Lolita, American Gods, Good Omens, Neverwhere, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Favourite Artists: Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Caspar David Friedrich, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, van Eyck, Rembrandt, Michelangelo Caravaggio, El Greco, Giovanni Boldini, Jerzy Nowosielski, Eugeniusz (Get) Stankiewicz, Albrecht Durer, David Blackwood, Kathe Kollwitz and Malcolm T. Liepke.

Favourite Musicians: The Beatles, Mumford & Sons, Edith Piaf, Simon and Garfunkel, Frederic Chopin, Ennio Moriconne, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Camille Saint-Saens, Danny Elfman, Enya, Pink Floyd, Loreena Mckennitt, Daft Punk, Joe Dassin, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, The XX, and Haim.


1. Better than Byron » reviews
REGENCY England. Edgar is a man with a past. Margaret is the woman who gives him the possibility of a future. He is said to be as bad as Byron, but some believe that the present defines a person rather than their past.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 16 - Words: 72,270 - Reviews: 40 - Updated: 5-13-13 - Published: 7-20-09
2. Black Butterfly reviews
The fading memories of a dying Victorian boy...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-10-11 - Complete
3. An Imperfect Ideal » reviews
The hot and cold relationship of an artist and his muse. She is mysteriously recruited to work for him while he fights his dual nature, trying to maintain two women in his life. She is his imperfect ideal, and immortalises her through his medium.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 6 - Words: 13,418 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 11-7-09 - Published: 9-18-09 - Complete
4. Dressed in Black » reviews
1862:Catherine's father has just but died, and the kindness of an old friend brings her to his manor in Cambridge. She has been tormented by death and social restraint, and realises that boundaries between fantasy and reality are not what she had thought.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 24 - Words: 68,208 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 4-27-09 - Published: 11-2-08 - Complete
5. Imitative reviews
This is a piece I wrote for my Writer's Craft class, and which got very positive feedback. I imitated Jane Austen's style and content and have made it as authentic as was in my power. Sorry for the lack of title.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Family/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,457 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-21-09 - Complete