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Thought for the day
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
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Published on this day
- 2004 Hunters of the Dusk by Darren O'Shaughnessy
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- Charlotte Turner Smith: George Romney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Alfred Oliver Pollard: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Graham Swift: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Richard Braithwaite: Pye, Charles, 1777-1864, printmaker., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Isabella Banks: Done & Ball, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lillian Spender: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edith Nesbit: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edward Shanks: Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Osbert Sitwell: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized