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<p>&quot;Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.&quot;</p><p>Marcel Proust died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922. He was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/987</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.</p><p>British actress Laura Keene opens her own theatre in New York City. She is most famous for being the lead actress in the play Our American Cousin, which was attended by President Abraham Lincoln on the evening of his assassination.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Keene" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Keene"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ke</span><span class="invisible">ene</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1910.</p><p>Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy dies of pneumonia aged 82 at Astapovo railway station, after a day&#x27;s train journey south, fleeing from his home.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tols</span><span class="invisible">toy</span></a></p><p>Books by Leo Tolstoy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/136</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 1906.</p><p>Frank Wedekind&#x27;s play Spring Awakening: A Children&#x27;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>

<p>Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889–1982)—author, poet, film-maker, botanist, <a href="/tags/arctic/" rel="tag">#arctic</a> explorer—was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 30 May. A 🎂 🧵 </p><p>WalkHighlands shares an extract from PEAK BEYOND PEAK, describing how she tackled the Corrieyairack Pass between the <a href="/tags/cairngorms/" rel="tag">#Cairngorms</a> &amp; Loch Ness</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/peak-beyond-peak-the-unpublished-scottish-journeys-of-isobel-wylie-hutchison/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/peak-beyond-peak-the-unpublished-scottish-journeys-of-isobel-wylie-hutchison/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/p</span><span class="invisible">eak-beyond-peak-the-unpublished-scottish-journeys-of-isobel-wylie-hutchison/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/hillwalking/" rel="tag">#hillwalking</a> <a href="/tags/mountaineering/" rel="tag">#mountaineering</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1902.</p><p>J. M. Barrie&#x27;s comedy The Admirable Crichton is first performed, at the Duke of York&#x27;s Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3490" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/3490</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>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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1900.</p><p>August Strindberg&#x27;s To Damascus (Till Damaskus, first two parts) receives its première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with August Palme and Harriet Bosse, Strindberg&#x27;s future wife, in the leading rôles.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8875" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8875</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>Anna Bayerová was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1853.</p><p>She studied at University of Bern since University of Vienna denied her entry there. She provided critical healthcare to women &amp; children often focusing on underserved &amp; rural communities.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bayerov%C3%A1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bayerov%C3%A1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bay</span><span class="invisible">erov%C3%A1</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInSTEM</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850.</p><p>Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the UK in succession to William Wordsworth, but only after Samuel Rogers has declined the offer because of his age and Tennyson is assured that birthday odes will not be required of him.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2987"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2987</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>Endre Ady was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Some of his notable poetry collections include &quot;Új versek&quot; (New Poems, 1906), &quot;A Holnap&quot; (Tomorrow, 1908), and &quot;A halottak élén&quot; (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).</p><p>Books by Endre Ady at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39489</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&#x27;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>101 years ago, <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.</p><p>There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars.</p>

<p>The City is of Night; perchance of Death…</p><p>James “B.V.” Thomson (1834–1882) – poet, journalist, translator, anarchist, atheist – was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 23 Nov, in Port Glasgow. Best known for his long poem THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, he influenced TS Eliot &amp; is seen as a progenitor of Modernism </p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://psychogeographicreview.com/the-city-of-dreadful-night/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="psychogeographicreview.com/the-city-of-dreadful-night/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">psychogeographicreview.com/the</span><span class="invisible">-city-of-dreadful-night/</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/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thCentury</a> <a href="/tags/modernism/" rel="tag">#modernism</a> <a href="/tags/tseliot/" rel="tag">#TSEliot</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 &quot;The Adventure of the Final Problem&quot;, 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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is in fact another galaxy.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hu</span><span class="invisible">bble</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/54776</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1878.</p><p>Henry Irving&#x27;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&#x27; 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&#x27;s animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character&#x27;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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1891.</p><p>Maurice Maeterlinck&#x27;s play The Blind (written in 1890) is premièred. Les Aveugles is, along with L&#x27;Intruse, one of Maurice Maeterlinck&#x27;s first two plays.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blin</span><span class="invisible">d_(play)</span></a></p><p>Les Aveugles is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48368" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48368</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>&quot;Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.&quot;</p><p>Jack London died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1916.</p><p>A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/120"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/120</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</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/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 24 Nov 2015, mathematician Katherine Johnson receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on the space programme.</p><p>Her story was told in &#x27;Hidden Figures&#x27;.</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInSTEM</a></p>