16 May The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?
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- Anne Isabella Byron: Charles Hayter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Felicia Hemans: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Louisa Baldwin: Edward Poynton or anon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edmund Gosse: John Singer Sargent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized