17 June The literary calendar

On this day in English literature

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Born on this day 02

Helen Maria Williams1759 · London English novelist, poet, translator, religious dissenter, abolitionist (1759/62-1827)
The Spaceape1970 · Peckham Stephen Samuel Gordon, 17 June 1970-2 October 2014, known as The Spaceape, was a British poet and MC

Thought for the day

'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move.

Reveal who said it

Alexander Pope · The First Book of Statius his Thebais (c. 1703; first pubd. 1712), lines 413–414
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Photo credits

Helen Maria Williams: Unidentified engraver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
The Spaceape: basic_sounds, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
A. C. Benson: Allen Hastings Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Evelyn Sharp: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
John Cowper Powys: FinnWikiNo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized

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