Jane Hoodlessさんのイラストまとめ

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." – Henry Moore #HappyNewYear

Huckster publisher, Edmund Curll–who died #OTD 1747–commissioned hack-written biographies of famous people as soon as they died & printed them with no regard for inaccuracies & inventions. Notorious for his indecent publications, Curlicism became a synonym for literary indecency.

When Anthony Trollope–who died #OTD 1882–revealed that he strictly adhered to a daily writing quota, & admitted that he wrote for money, he confirmed his critics' worst fears. Writers were expected to wait for inspiration, not to follow a schedule…

Politically, Herbert Read–born #OTD 1893–considered himself an anarchist, albeit in the English quietist tradition of William Morris. Co-founder of @ICALondon his acceptance of a knighthood for services to literature, caused him to be ostracized by most of the anarchist movement.

@RealSardonicus Marie Antoinette did it first, Dora Maar did it better...

When Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' was published–#OTD 1859–the entire stock was oversubscribed. He later wrote that he'd "gained much by my delay in publishing from about 1839, when the theory was clearly conceived, to 1859; & I lost nothing by it". #Evolution #WorthTheWait

A ‘gret & konnyng man in astronomye’ & ‘renowned in all the world’, Roger Bolingbroke was one of three scholars implicated in the conspiracy to bring about the death of Henry VI. Accused of treason & sorcery, he was hanged, drawn & quartered at Tyburn #OTD 1441. #WyrdWednesday

Thomas Bewick–died #OTD 1828–was an early campaigner for fair treatment of animals; objecting to the docking of horses' tails, the mistreatment of performing animals, & cruelty to dogs. Above all, he thought war utterly pointless, & incorporated these themes in his engravings.

Uncrowned king of 86 days, Edward V–born #OTD 1470–whose father, keen to safeguard his son's morals, had instructed that no one in the prince's household was a habitual "swearer, brawler, backbiter, common hazarder, adulterer, [or user of] words of ribaldry". #TowerPrinces

The father of Dylan Thomas–born #OTD 1914–chose the name Dylan (translated as 'son of the sea'), after a character in The Mabinogion. Pronounced 'Dull-an' in Welsh, his mother worried that he might be teased as the 'dull one'. Thomas himself favoured the Anglicised 'Dillan'.