French explorer, and writer Alexandra David-Néel was born #OTD in 1868.
She wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, & her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929.
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Aphra Behn, the First Englishwoman to Earn a Living With Her Writing, Is Finally Getting Her Due
A year-long event series aims to champion the pioneering 17th-century writer’s legacy
By Elizabeth Djinis via @SmithsonianMag
Aphra Behn's The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband was staged this month for the first time in 350 years.
Read 1 novel and call me in the morning — how bibliotherapy can improve our well-being | CBC News
French mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre died #OTD in 1822.
He was director of the Paris Observatory & was involved in the precise measurement of the length of the earth's meridian, the basis of the original definition of the metre. He also wrote extensively on the history of astronomy. His six-volume Histoire de l'Astronomie is a detailed chronicle of the development of the field from ancient times through to the modern era.
American writer, literary critic and journalist Edmund Wilson was born #OTD in 1895.
Over his career, he contributed to numerous periodicals and his essays and reviews are often credited with influencing public and scholarly opinion on many subjects. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and Memoirs of Hecate County. He was a friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos.
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer Blaise Pascal was born #OTD in 1623.
One of his most famous contributions in Mathematics is the Pascal's Theorem. Along with Pierre de Fermat, Pascal is credited with founding probability theory. He also made significant contributions to the study of binomial coefficients, which led to the formation of Pascal's Triangle.
Books by Blaise Pascal at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7913
There is one more thing ;)
Those of you who subscribe to my blog via RSS already know, and now it's the #fediverse community's turn!
I am releasing a photo e-book!
"4xKungsleden" contains mainly photographs from 4 trips on the trail but there are also some thoughts that are important to me and hopefully to the readers.
The work is nearly completed. As a teaser, I'm posting the cover art and I'll keep you informed on what happens next.
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#photography #books
American writer Harriette Woods Baker was born #OTD in 1815.
She wrote under the pseudonym "Madeline Leslie." She devoted herself successfully to novels; but after about 15 years, she wrote popular religious literature. Some of her well-known titles include The Family in the Parsonage (1853), The Mother’s Mission (1854), and The Orphan Children (1856).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriette_Woods_Baker
Books by Madeline Leslie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/31136
"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief."
#OTD in 1843.
Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Black Cat" is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.
At the time, the publication was using the temporary title United States Saturday Post. The story was reprinted in The Baltimore Sun and The Pensacola Gazette that same year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(short_story)
The Black Cat at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148
English aristocrat and society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell died #OTD in 1938.
Her salons were frequented by key figures of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, & Lytton Strachey, as well as writers like Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, & D.H. Lawrence. Artists such as Duncan Grant & Vanessa Bell were also regular visitors. During World War I, they invited conscientious objectors such as Duncan Grant, Clive Bell & Lytton Strachey to take refuge at Garsington.
Using a 13-inch (33-cm) telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde W. Tombaugh, a 24-year-old American with no formal training in astronomy, discovered the dwarf planet Pluto #OTD in 1930.
The music of the spheres : A nature lover's astronomy by Grondal discusses Pluto as well as many other planets:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70382
More about Pluto at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Pluto&submit_search=Go%21
Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born #OTD in 1473.
The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. via @wikipedia
Books by Nicolaus Copernicus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6426
ShopTalk: I've tried to explain to AT&T that my Mastodon account is a public service, but have been thus far unsuccessful in convincing them to provide my internet service at no cost. If you enjoy my photography, poetry, writings, content curation, fairy updates etc., please consider buying a book, booking a coaching session or buying me a coffee. Deets at the link. Thank you!
#FediShop #writer #writing #author #haiku #poetry #coffee #wine #FaerieManager #blog #books
What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?
A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015. via @history-Smithsonianmag
By Sarah Gristwood
#OTD 1616. Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
In 1610, he published his Sidereus Nuncius, describing the observations that he had made with his new, much stronger telescope, amongst them, the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations and additional observations that followed, he promoted the heliocentric theory of Copernicus published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
French painter Berthe Morisot died #OTD in 1895. The stages of her career are not very marked, as she destroyed all her early works. Together with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas, she founded the avant-garde group "Artistes Anonymes Associés", which later became the Société Anonyme des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs, a group of Impressionists. via @wikipedia
Books about Berthe Morisot at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Berthe+Morisot&submit_search=Go%21
Grace Linn’s husband was killed while fighting nazis in WWII. She’s a centenarian who has witnessed the rise of fascism first hand.
Recently she took on a school board in Florida against their book bans. She made a quilt in protest and reminded people where book bans lead:
“Banning books and burning books are the same. Both are done for the same reason: fear of knowledge.”
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The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone
By Ella Jeffries
Rebecca Lee Crumpler at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search
A librarian helped me find the book my son requested today. She knew the plot & the characters & even pointed me to the newest story from the series in case he might enjoy that too. Then she recommended other #books he might like.
When I thanked her, she simply shook her head explaining, “It’s my job. And I really love my job!”
I share this anecdote simply bc librarians are the best people 📚✨
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring #books
American artist, author, translator, and illustrator Wanda Gág was born #OTD in 1893.
"Millions of Cats" (1928), tells the story of an old man and an old woman who decide to get a cat. The book's unique illustrations, which Gág created using lithographic crayon, made it a classic of children's literature. Gág wrote and illustrated several other children's books, including "The Funny Thing" and "Snippy and Snappy."
"Millions of cats" will be available at PG pretty soon.
American novelist, short story writer, and poet Louisa May Alcott died #OTD in 1888. In 1860, Alcott began writing for the Atlantic Monthly. In the mid-1860s she wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensation stories akin to those of English authors Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Alcott achieved further success with the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868).
Louisa May Alcott at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102
I mean, would it kill you to let Cathy tell you about her ferrets?
#library #libraries #reader #readers #books #book #writingcommunity #ferrets #humor #humour
“Librarians are being harassed in private Facebook groups. They’re receiving pressure from within and outside the school.”
But bookstores, libraries and book lovers of all kinds came together to fight back against the censorious, so-called READER act. From correspondent Matthew Patin: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-booksellers-revolt/
#news #politics #USpol #Texas #books @bookstodon #censorship #LGBTQIA+ #BookBans #library
"“Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
#OTD in 1953.
Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
The story was initially published in its entirety in the September 1st, 1952 issue of Life magazine. It was later issued as a book by Charles Scribner's Sons.
