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<p>Our latest newsletter listed a selection of March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight &quot;1066 and All That&quot; by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.</p><p>It&#x27;s a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to &quot;Good Things,&quot; &quot;Bad Things,&quot; and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Three women translators who bridged cultures</p><p>Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.</p><p>by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.europeana.eu/en/stories/th</span><span class="invisible">ree-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translator/" rel="tag">#translator</a></p>

<p>How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?</p><p>As a royally appointed playwright, Shakespeare was deeply affected by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as is clear in the writing of the great tragedy Macbeth less than a year later.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/how-did-g</span><span class="invisible">uy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit.</p><p>Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death</p><p>By Jessica Steinberg </p><p><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.timesofisrael.com/franz-ka</span><span class="invisible">fkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In December 1891.</p><p>Thomas Hardy writes &quot;The Son&#x27;s Veto&quot; (collected in Life&#x27;s Little Ironies), which he regards as his best short story.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s</span><span class="invisible">_Little_Ironies</span></a></p><p>Life&#x27;s Little Ironies at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Banned in Texas</p><p>Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it&#x27;s often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos&#x27;s USA trilogy. <br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/27/banned-in-texas/</span></a></p><p>John Dos passos at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2015</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1675.</p><p>Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; Latin for &quot;sum&quot; or &quot;total&quot;).</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7168</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

<p>Working to Preserve The Man Who Weighed the World</p><p>By Corinne Mona</p><p><a href="https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.aip.org/history-programs/n</span><span class="invisible">iels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France&#x27;s prestigious &#x27;Grand Mathematics Prize&#x27; is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are &#x27;lost in the mail&#x27; — Jan. 9, 1816</p><p>By Tia Ghose</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.livescience.com/physics-ma</span><span class="invisible">thematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816</span></a></p><p>More about Sophie Germain:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_G</span><span class="invisible">ermain</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a></p>

<p>Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination</p><p>Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-po</span><span class="invisible">es-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In November 1907. </p><p>While tutoring a Trieste businessman in English, James Joyce reveals that he is a writer, and his pupil, known to Joyce as Ettore Schmitz, proves to be the published novelist Italo Svevo. A literary friendship ensues.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Sv</span><span class="invisible">evo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In November 1852.</p><p>Leo Tolstoy&#x27;s debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month&#x27;s issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The erotic poems of Bilitis</p><p>A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work</p><p>by Cat Lambert</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-l</span><span class="invisible">iterary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness</span></a></p><p>Les Chansons de Bilitis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1657116</span></a></p><p>After experiencing the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>

<p>Leave the Internet Archive alone!</p><p>Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn&#x27;t stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.</p><p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.computerworld.com/article/</span><span class="invisible">3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/digitallibrary/" rel="tag">#digitallibrary</a></p>

<p>&quot;[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1811.</p><p>Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton&#x27;s Military Library.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/161</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In November 1868.</p><p>Robert Browning&#x27;s narrative poem The Ring and the Book begins four-part publication by Smith, Elder &amp; Co. in London. It is a major commercial and critical success.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>O come, let all 4,850 of us adore him</p><p>In 1925 the Associated Glee Clubs of America put on a concert like no other. 15 choral groups, with over 850 singers in all, came together in New York&#x27;s Metropolitan Opera House to sing a program broadcast on radio across America.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/</span></a></p><p>About Adeste Fideles:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_</span><span class="invisible">All_Ye_Faithful</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

<p>Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive</p><p>The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare&#x27;s plays in the Victorian period.</p><p>by Michael John Goodman (thanks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://digipres.club/@Ross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ross</span></a></span>)</p><p><a href="https://shakespeareillustration.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>shakespeareillustration.org/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&amp;t=14s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&amp;t=14s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqn</span><span class="invisible">mfcCA&amp;t=14s</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/book_illustration/" rel="tag">#book_illustration</a></p>

<p>Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets under X-ray Gaze</p><p>For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light.</p><p>By Heather Rock Woods (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2005-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2005-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/20</span><span class="invisible">05-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze</span></a></p><p>Archimedes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=archimedes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=archimedes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=archimedes</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/xray_imaging/" rel="tag">#xray_imaging</a></p>

<p>Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker<br>Another novella set in Parker&#x27;s mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant. <br>@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>A Review of A Happy Christmas Ceilidh: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christmas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christmas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christ</span><span class="invisible">mas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">#Christmas</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/41453051">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1604529</span></a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links it to catastrophe and the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>