<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1906.</p><p>Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy (Frühlings Erwachen), completed 1901, receives its first staging, directed by Max Reinhardt.</p><p>The Awakening of Spring at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/35242" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/35242</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
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<p>8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms.</p><p>Historically, women faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/famous-women-writers-under-male-pseudonyms/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/famous-women-writers-under-male-pseudonyms/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/famous-wo</span><span class="invisible">men-writers-under-male-pseudonyms/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>🎬 Artist: <a href="/tags/zabou/" rel="tag">#ZABOU</a> / <a href="/tags/zabouartist/" rel="tag">#ZabouArtist</a> in City: <a href="/tags/newross/" rel="tag">#NewRoss</a> Co. Wexford (Near O'Hanrahan Bridge) Ireland 🇮🇪 11/2024 - Title: "Small Things Like These" ( <a href="/tags/cillianmurphy/" rel="tag">#CillianMurphy</a> ) - <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/streetart/" rel="tag">#Streetart</a> <a href="/tags/mural/" rel="tag">#Mural</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/movie/" rel="tag">#Movie</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/clairekeegan/" rel="tag">#ClaireKeegan</a></p>
<p>José-Maria de Heredia was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1842.</p><p>He published in 1893 Les Trophées comprising 198 sonnets that retrace the history of the world or depict privileged moments as well as four longer poems.</p><p>José-Maria de Heredia at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5697" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5697"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5697</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>What was on summer reading lists 100 years ago, in 1925?</p><p>In the summer of 1925, long before podcasts, audiobooks and even paperbacks, holiday reading meant hoping a hardback fit in your suitcase.</p><p>By James Tugwell</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-28/summer-reading-list-1925-human-experience-time-travel/106172974" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-28/summer-reading-list-1925-human-experience-time-travel/106172974"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-28</span><span class="invisible">/summer-reading-list-1925-human-experience-time-travel/106172974</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 1918.</p><p>Wilfred Owen is killed in action aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal, with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Shrewsbury a week later on Armistice Day. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/517" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/517"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/517</span></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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27</span><span class="invisible">s_Adventures_in_Wonderland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Li</span><span class="invisible">ddell</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>French and American writer, journalist and pianist Ève Curie was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>She is best known for writing a biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937). Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve</span><span class="invisible">_Curie</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 1893.</p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in The Strand Magazine, that Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/834" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/834</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>British Library Exhibit Reveals Lives of Medieval Women</p><p>By Madeleine Muzdakis </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=11212024&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=11212024&utm_medium=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/british-librar</span><span class="invisible">y-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=11212024&utm_medium=email</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 1930.</p><p>American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.</p><p>Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:<br><a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lite</span><span class="invisible">rature/1930/lewis/lecture/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/nobelprize/" rel="tag">#nobelprize</a></p>
<p>Reading Scotland’s Witches<br>20 Jan, 6–7:30 German time (5–6:30 GMT), free online</p><p>Dr Cordula Lemke looks at witchcraft in Scottish literature, & how Geillis Duncan – one of the first Scottish witches to die in the early modern witch-hunt frenzy – is remembered in literature & popular culture today</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/read</span><span class="invisible">ing-scotland/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/witchcraft/" rel="tag">#witchcraft</a> <a href="/tags/popularculture/" rel="tag">#popularculture</a></p>
<p>Lochhead’s Mary<br>26 March, Perth. £7.50/£5</p><p>Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is one of the most iconic plays in modern Scottish theatre. This special event will reflect on Lochhead’s enduring influence on Scottish writing & identity</p><p><a href="https://www.culturepk.org.uk/event/lochheads-mary/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.culturepk.org.uk/event/lochheads-mary/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.culturepk.org.uk/event/loc</span><span class="invisible">hheads-mary/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a> <a href="/tags/lizlochhead/" rel="tag">#LizLochhead</a> <a href="/tags/maryqueenofscots/" rel="tag">#MaryQueenofScots</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/identity/" rel="tag">#identity</a> <a href="/tags/scottishidentity/" rel="tag">#ScottishIdentity</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1878.</p><p>Henry Irving's production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management). The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics' approval.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet</a></p><p>Hamlet at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a> <a href="/tags/drama/" rel="tag">#drama</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. Sewell wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/271" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/271</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Happy New Year!</p><p>This month's Distributed Proofreaders' Blog takes time out to talk about the Minute Boys juvenile series.</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-m</span><span class="invisible">inute-boys/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a> <a href="/tags/dpblog/" rel="tag">#dpblog</a></p>
<p>When you were people<br>We could have loved you,<br>Found out your names<br>And brought you presents…</p><p>—“Poem for Innocent Victims of War” by AC Jacobs (1937–1994) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 30 May</p><p>Published in NAMELESS COUNTRY: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2018)</p><p>A 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784106751/nameless-country/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784106751/nameless-country/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.carcanet.co.uk/97817841067</span><span class="invisible">51/nameless-country/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/jewish/" rel="tag">#Jewish</a> <a href="/tags/diaspora/" rel="tag">#diaspora</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/warpoetry/" rel="tag">#warpoetry</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1899.</p><p>William Gillette's play Sherlock Holmes, based (with authorisation) on the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, opens in New York City with himself in the title rôle.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/sherlockholmes0000will" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/sherlockholmes0000will"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/sherlockho</span><span class="invisible">lmes0000will</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. "</p><p>‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’: The raunchy banned book that became a best-seller and helped to launch counterculture</p><p>by Paulina Subia</p><p><a href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/raunchy-banned-book-helped-to-launch-counterculture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="faroutmagazine.co.uk/raunchy-banned-book-helped-to-launch-counterculture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">faroutmagazine.co.uk/raunchy-b</span><span class="invisible">anned-book-helped-to-launch-counterculture/</span></a></p><p>Lady Chatterley’s Love at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73144" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73144</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 1859</p><p>Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, begins serialisation in All the Year Round.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woma</span><span class="invisible">n_in_White_(novel)#</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Year_Round" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Year_Round"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_</span><span class="invisible">Year_Round</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/583" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/583</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 1952.</p><p>Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End after a premiere in Nottingham, UK. It will become the longest continuously running play in history.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mous</span><span class="invisible">etrap</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>Hear my prayer, O non-existent God,<br>accept these cries into thy nothingness,<br>thou, who never leaves poor men unblessed<br>by your false comfort…</p><p>—Don Paterson, “Atheist Prayer”<br>from THE ARCTIC (Faber, 2023)</p><p>Today, March 23, is Atheist Day</p><p><a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571338191-the-arctic/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571338191-the-arctic/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.faber.co.uk/product/978057</span><span class="invisible">1338191-the-arctic/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/atheism/" rel="tag">#atheism</a> <a href="/tags/atheistday/" rel="tag">#AtheistDay</a></p>
<p>4 Forgotten Female Authors Who Inspired Jane Austen</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/forgotten-female-authors-who-inspired-jane-austen?utm_source=RSS" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/literature/authors/forgotten-female-authors-who-inspired-jane-austen?utm_source=RSS"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/literature</span><span class="invisible">/authors/forgotten-female-authors-who-inspired-jane-austen?utm_source=RSS</span></a></p><p>Books at PG by:</p><p>Frances Burney</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2010</span></a></p><p>Maria Edgeworth </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/630</span></a></p><p>Charlotte Smith</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41281"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/41281</span></a></p><p>Elizabeth Inchbald</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1305" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1305"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1305</span></a></p><p>Maria Edgeworth </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 1919.</p><p>The Großes Schauspielhaus opens as a theater in Berlin, with an interior designed by Hans Poelzig. It begins with the director Max Reinhardt's production of the Oresteia.</p><p>The House of Atreus at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8604" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8604</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>Is beauty natural?</p><p>Charles Darwin was as fascinated by extravagant ornament in nature as Jane Austen was in culture. Did their explanations agree?</p><p>By Abigail Tulenko via @aeonmag </p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-austen-and-darwin-converged-on-the-question-of-beauty" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-austen-and-darwin-converged-on-the-question-of-beauty"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-austen-and-</span><span class="invisible">darwin-converged-on-the-question-of-beauty</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>