2 February The literary calendar
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She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.
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- Hannah More: Henry William Pickersgill, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Adelaide Anne Procter: Emma Gaggiotti Richards, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Christopher Priest: Éric Messel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized