12 September The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Thought for the day
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?
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Remembered today
No writer in our collection died on 12 September.
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- John Alfred Langford: Artist H. C. Manns, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Woodruff: Helga Woodruff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized