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Born #OTD 1828 Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
“Places that are empty of you are empty of life. ”
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was published #OTD 1939. It won a National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize, & helped Steinbeck to the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
About its Great Depression-themed plot, he said "I've done my damnedest to rip a reader's nerves to rags"
A cartoon from @tomgauld on reading in the garden (quite topical given the weather today) - I suspect a lot of us can relate to this! 🙋♀️
"Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything"
Kate Greenaway, artist & children's illustrator extraordinaire, born #OTD 1846.
Agatha Christie's first published novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", was published in the UK #OTD 1921, following a release in the USA 3 months earlier; it had earlier been rejected by several publishers.
Most notably, the novel introduced the world to Hercule Poirot!
Welcome to 2022!
We are now back open as normal following the festive break (Monday-Friday: 10am-5pm; Saturdays 9am-5pm) for all your bookish needs - and there are a lot of great new books to look forward to this year!
Apparently it is #NationalCatDay, which presents a great opportunity to celebrate some of our favourite literary felines!
We are putting in nods for the Cheshire Cat, Garfield, Mog, & the Discworld's Greebo as some of our top cats from literature
Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" opened in the Coronet Theatre on Broadway #OTD 1955, as a one-act play which ran for 149 performances, but ultimately flopped. Miller revised it to a two-act version which opened just over a year later, & theatre has never looked back...
Apparently it is #InternationalDogDay, which is a great excuse to post some of our favourite literary dogs - which are yours? #Books
(top - Toto from the Wizard of Oz & Hairy Mclary from Donaldson's Dairy; lower - the 101 Dalmatians, & Gaspode from the Discworld)