<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> In 1858, Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born.</p><p>"She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy"</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Lagerl%C3%B6f"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_La</span><span class="invisible">gerl%C3%B6f</span></a></p><p>Books by Lagerlöf at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1717" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1717"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1717</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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![Miss [Dorothy] Wrinch, docteur ès sciences [de l'université de Londres] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]
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![An illustration by John Opie, engraved by Jean Pierre Simon, for Act II, Scene III of Shakespeare's [The] Winter's Tale LEONTES: [To ANTIGONUS.] You, sir, come you hither: You that have been so tenderly officious With Lady Margery, your midwife, there, To save this bastard's life,—for 'tis a bastard, So sure as this beard's grey,—what will you adventure To save this brat's life? ANTIGONUS. Anything, my lord, That my ability may undergo, And nobleness impose: at least, thus much; I'll pawn the little blood which I have left To save the innocent:—anything possible. LEONTES. It shall be possible. Swear by this sword Thou wilt perform my bidding. ANTIGONUS. I will, my lord. LEONTES. Mark, and perform it; (seest thou?) for the fail Of any point in't shall not only be Death to thyself, but to thy lewd-tongu'd wife; Whom for this time, we pardon.](/proxy/post_attachment/381954/02f5e2f993.jpg "An illustration by John Opie, engraved by Jean Pierre Simon, for Act II, Scene III of Shakespeare's [The] Winter's Tale LEONTES: [To ANTIGONUS.] You, sir, come you hither: You that have been so tenderly officious With Lady Margery, your midwife, there, To save this bastard's life,—for 'tis a bastard, So sure as this beard's grey,—what will you adventure To save this brat's life? ANTIGONUS. Anything, my lord, That my ability may undergo, And nobleness impose: at least, thus much; I'll pawn the little blood which I have left To save the innocent:—anything possible. LEONTES. It shall be possible. Swear by this sword Thou wilt perform my bidding. ANTIGONUS. I will, my lord. LEONTES. Mark, and perform it; (seest thou?) for the fail Of any point in't shall not only be Death to thyself, but to thy lewd-tongu'd wife; Whom for this time, we pardon.")
![Alberto Santos Dumont's 14-bis with the Blériot IV in the background. [Jules Beau Collection. Sports photography]: T. 33. Years 1906 and 1907 / Jules Beau: F. 15 [Les étapes de l\ aviation. Santos-Dumont's new triumph.](/proxy/post_attachment/367548/c94f236425.jpg "Alberto Santos Dumont's 14-bis with the Blériot IV in the background. [Jules Beau Collection. Sports photography]: T. 33. Years 1906 and 1907 / Jules Beau: F. 15 [Les étapes de l\ aviation. Santos-Dumont's new triumph.")
