21 February The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move.
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- 2012 Syndicate by Richard K. Morgan
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- John Henry Newman: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Clemence Dane: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- W. H. Auden: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Jilly Cooper: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Robert Southwell: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- John Oxenford: Fradelle and Young, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon: photographer Camille Silvy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Basil Macdonald Hastings: Bain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized