14 December The literary calendar
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Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!
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- Frances Ridley Havergal: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Antony Beevor: Bjørn Erik Pedersen, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Shahida Rahman: BengalTMahal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Maurice Baring: photographer: Bertram Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- C. E. Bechhofer Roberts: Ralph Straus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Owen Barfield: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized