25 January The literary calendar

On this day in English literature

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Born on this day 05

Edmund Campion1540 · London English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
William Grainge1818 · Dishforth British antiquarian (1818-1895)
Virginia Woolf1882 · London English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Ewan MacColl1915 · Salford British folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (1915–1989)
John Cooper Clarke1949 · Salford English poet

Thought for the day

It is the north wind that lashes men into vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them into lotus dreams.

Reveal who said it

Ouida, on their own day · Puck (1870)
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Edmund Campion: J.M. Lerch; Antwerp, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
William Grainge: Thomas Holroyd (d.1904), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Virginia Woolf: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Ewan MacColl: Seattle Folklore Society, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
John Cooper Clarke: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Ouida: Adolphe Beau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized