23 October The literary calendar

On this day in English literature

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Thought for the day

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning · "A Vision of Poets"
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Jessie Catherine Couvreur 23 October 1897 Australian writer; raised in Tasmania, resident of Belgium and England as a novelist (1848-1897)
St. John Lucas 23 October 1934 English poet and anthologist (1879–1934)

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Mike Harding: Scouse_and_Jules from UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Jessie Catherine Couvreur: Mathilde Philippson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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