31 December The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Thought for the day
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower; Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Published on this day
- 1853 The Long Voyage by Charles Dickens
- 1964 Galahad at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse
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- Horace Smith: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Caroline Fry: Thomas Lawrence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Richard Henry Horne: Margaret Gillies, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edith Olivier: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Wycherley: Peter Lely, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Gifford: John Hoppner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edward Rose: E. Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Cyril Scott: Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966 -- Photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized