2 May The literary calendar
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Now such an one for daughter Creon had As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.
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- 1938 Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
- 1996 Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
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- Jerome K. Jerome: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Alan Titchmarsh: Phil Guest https://www.flickr.com/photos/philip-rosie (cropped by Heligoland), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Esther Freud: Finn Bjørklid, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- John Collins: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Beckford: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Henry Septimus Sutton: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ruth Rendell: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lynn Redgrave: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized