29 August The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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Published on this day
- 2013 The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
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- John Fawcett: Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Sarah Burney: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edward Carpenter: F. Holland Day, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Jessica Dismorr: Jessica Dismorr, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized