11 March The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Thought for the day
The pleasures of self-approbation, together with the right cultivation of all our pleasures, require individual independence. Without independence men cannot become either wise, or useful, or happy.
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Remembered today
Published on this day
- 1818 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- 1967 The Macra Terror by Ian Stuart Black
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- Herbert Asquith: Hodder & Stoughton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lady Dorothy Mills: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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