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#OnThisDay in 1882, writer A.A. Milne was born. Best known for creating Winnie the Pooh, Milne was also an established playwright. Image credit: Photograph of A.A. Milne by E. O. Hoppé. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. #otd #aamilne #winniethepooh #childrensliterature #literature #winniethepoohday Christopher Robin Milne, Alan Alexander Milne, Important People In History, The Famous Five, Alex Rider, Little Britain, People Smoking, If Rudyard Kipling

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#OnThisDay in 1882, writer A.A. Milne was born. Best known for creating Winnie the Pooh, Milne was also an established playwright. Image credit: Photograph of A.A. Milne by E. O. Hoppé. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. #otd #aamilne #winniethepooh #childrensliterature #literature #winniethepoohday

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Do you know what "Wuthering Heights" is? Do you know what pseudonym Emily Brontë used to publish her book? Find out with a quiz on this famous work of literature. (Image: Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.) English Literature, Heathcliff Wuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights Quotes, Twilight, Online Book Club, Critical Essay, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte

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Do you know what "Wuthering Heights" is? Do you know what pseudonym Emily Brontë used to publish her book? Find out with a quiz on this famous work of literature. (Image: Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.)

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - review via Guardian Children's Books 'I felt rather lonely after the March sisters had gone as I loved their spirit and felt as if I was almost one of them, which is a clear sign of this book's greatness' #LouisaMayAlcott #lit #classics #LittleWomen Oxford Classics, Book Whisperer, Louisa May Alcott, Book Sites, Thing 1, Good Wife, Coming Of Age, Love Reading, Good Books

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - review via Guardian Children's Books 'I felt rather lonely after the March sisters had gone as I loved their spirit and felt as if I was almost one of them, which is a clear sign of this book's greatness' #LouisaMayAlcott #lit #classics #LittleWomen

Another in our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #merrywives Literature Books, Teaching English, Shakespeare, Libraries, Merry, Education

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Another in our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #merrywives

"Shakespeare was widely admired in his own time, still more so after the publication of the First Folio. But he was not initially regarded as superior to all his contemporaries. ['English Literature: A Very Short Introduction'] #shakespeare #literature #books (Image: Wikimedia) William Shakespeare, Shakespeare Sonnets, Shakespeare Plays, Shakespeare Portrait, Shakespeare Online, Shakespeare Facts, Communication Interculturelle, Most Expensive Book, Harvard University

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"Shakespeare was widely admired in his own time, still more so after the publication of the First Folio. But he was not initially regarded as superior to all his contemporaries. ['English Literature: A Very Short Introduction'] #shakespeare #literature #books (Image: Wikimedia)

More from our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #muchado Cover

More from our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #muchado

In December 1817, an advertisement appeared in the Morning Chronicle newspaper announcing the imminent publication of ‘Northanger Abbey, a Romance; and Persuasion, a Novel. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, etc.’ #Austen #JaneAusten #classiclit #books (Image: Wikimedia) Regency Fashion, Edwardian Fashion, Roman Noir, Emma Woodhouse, Michel De Montaigne, Modern History

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In December 1817, an advertisement appeared in the Morning Chronicle newspaper announcing the imminent publication of ‘Northanger Abbey, a Romance; and Persuasion, a Novel. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, etc.’ #Austen #JaneAusten #classiclit #books (Image: Wikimedia)

Reminiscing Virginia Woolf's legacy as a woman, a feminist, and a novelist (Image: Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons). Vita Sackville West, Modernist Literature, British History, American History, Native American

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Reminiscing Virginia Woolf's legacy as a woman, a feminist, and a novelist (Image: Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons).

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A Very Short Fact: English author Virginia Woolf died on this day in 1941. A long-time sufferer of depression, Woolf sensed the return of her mental illness and committed suicide. ““The idea that the artist can in this way make a cognitive gain for... English Writers, Writers And Poets, La Señora Dalloway, Modernist Writers, Virginia Woolf Quotes, Virginia Wolf, Bloomsbury Group, The Monks

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A Very Short Fact: English author Virginia Woolf died on this day in 1941. A long-time sufferer of depression, Woolf sensed the return of her mental illness and committed suicide. ““The idea that the artist can in this way make a cognitive gain for...

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Reminiscing Virginia Woolf's legacy as a woman, a feminist, and a novelist (Image: Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons).

Reminiscing Virginia Woolf's legacy as a woman, a feminist, and a novelist (Image: Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons).

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