about life – Ludwig Bemelmans and Rhoda Janzan

https://us.macmillan.com/author/rhodajanzen

https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/the-carlyle-new-york/dining/bemelmans-bar

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/1912/ludwig-bemelmans

http://www.madeline.com/index.html

 

about how to behave – Miss Manners and Munro Leaf

http://www.missmanners.com/

http://www.librarypoint.org/author_munro_leaf

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323491/the-story-of-ferdinand-by-munro-leaf-illustrated-by-robert-lawson/9780140502343/

 

about the outdoors -Sarah Orne Jewett and Beverley  Nichols

https://americanliterature.com/author/sarah-orne-jewett/

http://beverleynichols.org/

 

about the indoors – Montaigne and Jane Austen

https://www.janeausten.org/

https://www.iep.utm.edu/montaign/

 

about poetry – Cavafy and Emily Dickenson

http://www.cavafy.com/

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/emily-dickinson

 

about humor – George McDonald Fraser and Jenny Lawson

https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780006513711/the-complete-mcauslan/

https://archive.org/details/QuarteredSafeOutHere

http://thebloggess.com/

 

about romanace  – Jenny Crusie and Susan Elizabeth Phillips

http://jennycrusie.com/

https://susanelizabethphillips.com/

 

about adventure – Dervla Murphy, Ridger Haggard, and Patrick O’Brian

https://www.travelbooks.co.uk/dervla-murphy/

https://www.patrickobrian.com/

https://www.riderhaggardsociety.org.uk/bibliography/

 

about mysteries – Wilkie Collins and P. D. James

https://www.biography.com/people/pd-james-21104607

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilkie-Collins