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Let's celebrate International Women’s Day #OTD.
Some great literary writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, George Sand, Gertrude Stein, Christine de Pisan, The Brontës, Colette, Grazia Deledda, Selma Lagerlöf, Mary Shelley, Jane Dieulafoy, Edith Wharton...
"La experiencia no consiste en lo que se ha vivido, sino en lo que se ha reflexionado."
Spanish novelist José María de Pereda died #OTD in 1906.
Books by José María de Pereda at PG:
https://t.co/IZNCSFcJPL
"Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe was born #OTD in 1809.
Books by Edgar Allan Poe at PG:
https://t.co/3FQVz1shTG
"To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind."
Evelina, 1778
English novelist and diarist Frances Burney died #OTD in 1840.
Books by Frances Burney at PG:
https://t.co/P90DzBHH8J
"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it."
A Room with a View (1908)
English fiction writer E. M. Forster was born #OTD in 1879.
Books by E. M. Forster at PG:
https://t.co/HiczioFEY3
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
Auguries of Innocence (1803)
British poet and artist William Blake was born #OTD in 1757.
Books by William Blake at PG:
https://t.co/kArInWyDaX
American botanist and academic Asa Gray was born #OTD in 1810.
Books by Asa Gray at PG:
https://t.co/ucfkfhmjQW
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright Miguel de Cervantes was born #OTD in 1547.
Books by Cervantes at PG:
https://t.co/B6r9Uhhipp
Gustave Doré's and Salvador Dali's illustrations of Don Quixote: