All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde   Colette 1873 to 1954   Marilyn Monroe 1926 to 1962   Billie Holiday 1915 to 1959 RIP   Emily Dickinson 1830 to 1886   George Eliot, Margot Fonteyn, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen   Edith Piaf 1915 to 1963   Sylvia Plath 1932 to 1963   Simone de Beauvoir   Jean Stafford 1915 to 1979   Gracie Fields   Vivien Leigh 1913 to '67 RIP      All dead, yet still alive   In endless time, endless art      Masters of their arts   Anais Nin 1903 to 1977   Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte   Janis Joplin 1943 to 1970   Hilda Doolittle, Mata Hari   Eleonara Duse 1859 to 1924   Anne Frank 1929 to 1945   Degeneration art, Jean Rhys, RIP   Ingrid Bergman 1915 to 1982   Bessie Smith 1895 to 1937   Maria Callas, Julie London, Judy Garland, Gertrude Stein   Greta Garbo 1905 to 1990   Virginia Woolf 1882 to 1941   Louisa May Alcott 1832 to 1888   Mary Shelley, Grace Kelly RIP      All dead, yet still alive   In endless time, endless art      Jane Austen 1775 to 1817   Louise Brooks 1906 to 1985   Joyce Grenfell 1910 to 1979   S.E. Hinton, Enid Blyton, Edith Sitwell   Isadora Duncan 1878 to 1927   Ivy Compton-Burnett 1892 to 1969   Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse RIP      All dead, yet still alive   In endless time, endless art