15 October The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Thought for the day
He often lying broad awake, and yet Remaining from the body, and apart In intellect and power and will, hath heard Time flowing in the middle of the night, And all things creeping to a day of doom.
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Published on this day
- 2013 Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
- 1984 The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
- 1954 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse
- 1971 Much Obliged, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
- 2020 Serpentine by Philip Pullman
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Photo credits
- Elizabeth Inchbald: Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- P. G. Wodehouse: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Saunders Lewis: Y Drych, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Anne Ridler: Owen Massey McKnight from Oxford, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized