SEASONS IN THE SUN: If you had to name two women/girls, or images of women–whether characters or archetypes–who represented, to you, particular seasons of the year, who would you name?

like this: spring: Artemis (mostly because of her virginity, though a friend pointed out that as the goddess of the hunt she’d also be associated with autumn and the hunter’s moon), Alice

summer: Maria Lactans, Andromakhe (or, in a completely different vein, Jean Grey/Phoenix–really, don’t feel like these images need to be “high culture” or anything)

fall: Miss Havisham, Mary from The Secret Garden

winter: Narnia’s White Witch, Medea

(obviously, these are very fuzzy distinctions, and which season you associate with which lady doesn’t hugely matter to me.)

THANKS….