Who'd have thought? Brain Pickings reports not only that George Eliot had a big head, she was interested in phrenology and allowed a cast of her head to be made (there's an interesting list of others who did the same). There's a pretty interesting phrenology chart at the link.

@OpenCulture points to the early drafts of the Proust novels.

The first drafts of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time." http://t.co/KeHCpthxBC

— Open Culture (@openculture) October 28, 2013

The Online Emily Dickinson Archive Puts 1000s of the Poet’s Manuscripts on the Web: http://t.co/ZSPoyJkwzD

— Open Culture (@openculture) October 23, 2013

OpenCulture and The New York Times report on a newly opened archive of Emily Dickinson's poems and manuscripts.

I wonder how many other cemeteries can command this kind of attention from Google.