28 December The literary calendar

On this day in English literature

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Born on this day 02

William Davenport Adams1851 · London English journalist and author (1851-1904)
F. L. Lucas1894 · Hipperholme British writer and classical scholar (1894–1967)

Thought for the day

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads — that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

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George Gissing, on their own day · Vol. I, Ch. 1 : A Man of His Day, p. 17
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F. L. Lucas: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
George Gissing: Published by R.F. Fenno & Co, New York, 1896, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized