11 October The literary calendar

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So for the mother’s sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge · "Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me" (1797)
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No writer in our collection died on 11 October.

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