17 May The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Born on this day 04
Thought for the day
Buy my flowers—O buy—I pray! The blind girl comes from afar; If the earth be as fair as her children say, These flowers her children are!
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Remembered today
Published on this day
- 1923 The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
- 2007 Black Man by Richard K. Morgan
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Photo credits
- Anne Isabella Byron: Charles Hayter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Robin Maugham: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Colin Greenland: Patrick Nielsen Hayden from Brooklyn, NY, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Kia Abdullah: Ewelina Stechnij, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mary Pix: anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized