14 September The literary calendar
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In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
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- Rowland Egerton-Warburton: Charles Allen Duval, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Marjorie Pickthall: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Dorothy Shakespear: Walter Benington, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Justin Richards: Justin Richards, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Thomas Overbury: Edward and Silvester Harding print after Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edith Ellis: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized