15 September The literary calendar

On this day in English literature

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Agatha Christie1890 · Ashfield English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)

Thought for the day

The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

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Horace Walpole · On Scotland, in a etter to Sir Horace Mann (1778); comparable to "It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding", by Sydney Sm
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2020 Troubled Blood by J. K. Rowling
2020 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
1909 Mike by P. G. Wodehouse
2022 Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

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Agatha Christie: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
George Stepney: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Jane Crewdson: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Arthur Hallam: Francis Legatt Chantrey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Richard Le Gallienne: Alfred Ellis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Beverley Nichols: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized