4 October The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Thought for the day
Then let my winds caress thee — Thy comrade let me be — Since naught beside can bless thee Return and dwell with me —
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Remembered today
Published on this day
- 2004 The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
- 1802 Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1971 No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell
- 2012 Oblivion by Anthony Horowitz
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Photo credits
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon: William Powell Frith (died 1909), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Jackie Collins: Cyotethndr, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Henry Carey: Charles Grignion the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Maria Jane Jewsbury: G Freeman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Harry Beresford: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Adela Florence Nicolson: George Charles Beresford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Peter Robinson: Georges Seguin (Okki), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized