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Authors, Literary Birthdays

25 Jan 2018

Robert Burns – Scottish poet, born on 25 January 1759

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Robert Burns, born 25 January 1759 There are few poems I love as much as Robert Burns's…

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Authors, Literary Birthdays

24 Jan 2018

Edith Wharton – American novelist, born on 24 January 1862

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Edith Wharton, born 24 January 1862 "Silence may be as variously shaded as speech." When she was…

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Authors, Literary Birthdays

22 Jan 2018

Lord Byron – English poet, born on 22 January 1788

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Authors, Literary Birthdays

19 Jan 2018

Edgar Allan Poe – American writer, born on 19 January 1809

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Edgar Allan Poe, born 19 January 1809 "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."…

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Authors, Literary Birthdays

17 Jan 2018

Anne Brontë – English novelist and poet, born on 17 January 1820

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Authors, Literary Birthdays

14 Jan 2018

Hugh Lofting – English writer, born on 14 January 1886

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Hugh Lofting, born 14 January 1886 "The fact that I have been successful merely means that I…

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Authors, Newsletter, Poems, Poets

01 Jan 2018

W.H. Auden & Stop All the Clocks

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Authors, Books, Newsletter, Reading

01 Jan 2018

Being a Kwaussie

The National Australian Dictionary chose as its ‘new word of the year’ a word that describes me aptly – ‘Kwaussie’…

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Authors, Books, Jane Austen, Newsletter

01 Jan 2018

People and their Bookcases

We recently had some guests over for dinner who had never been in our house before. (Which, by the way…

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Authors, Books, Jane Austen, Newsletter

01 Jan 2018

My 2017 Favourites

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Books, Newsletter

01 Dec 2017

Book Plates

A book plate (sometimes known as an ‘ex libris’, from the Latin for ‘from the books of…’) is a small…

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Books, Newsletter

01 Dec 2017

About Mary Shelley

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Authors, Newsletter, Poems, Poets

01 Dec 2017

Leigh Hunt & Abou Ben Adhem

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Authors, Newsletter

01 Dec 2017

A Precious New Child

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Authors, Literary Birthdays

29 Nov 2017

Louisa May Alcott – American novelist, born on 29 November 1832

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Louisa May Alcott, born 29 November 1832 "I want to do something splendid." Some of my favourite…

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