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Writers and Poets

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Adrienne Rich May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012

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Jane Austen's 235th birthday

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Brass Cuff with Wentworth’s letter to Anne from Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Chapter 23.

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Charles Dickens with daughters Katey and Mary in the garden at Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent - home of Dickens' family from 1858 until his death in one of the rooms in 1870, and which is about to open its doors to the public for the first time. www.dailymail.co....

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William Shockley was the inventor of the transistor.

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." � Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, 1922

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Nabokov hunting for lepidoptera

Adelaide Marquand Hanscom Leeson

“Circles of Influence” is a chart of artistic, scientific, and philosophical debts through time.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Faulkner’s Mint Julep cup, his recipe was: whiskey, 1 tsp Sugar, ice, mint served in a metal cup. Photo credit: Kyle Durrie at the William Faulkner House in Oxford, MS.

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A scrapbook compiled by Edwin Morgan during the years 1931-1953. MS Morgan 917/1 by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr. “Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) studied and taught at the University of Glasgow. A prolific writer and translator who employed many ‘voices’, he was the city of Glasgow’s Poet Laureate 1999-2005 and the Makar (national poet for Scotland) from 2004. Displayed here is one of his many scrapbooks.”

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James Joyce at the Brighton Beach Esplanade, ca. 1907

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