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Think Hollywood Hearthrobs are a new phenomenon? Think again. (Image: Darcy à Netherfield by C.E. Brock. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.)
Don’t do anything Jane Austen wouldn’t do. #JaneAusten #Austen #classicliterature #books
Do you know what "Wuthering Heights" is? Do you know what pseudonym Emily Brontë used to publish her book? Find out with a quiz on this famous work of literature. (Image: Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.)

Women Writers

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Summer technically isn't over yet. There's still time to soak up some more sun with a few good reads!
The Roald Dahl 100 campaign marks the centennial of his birth and celebrates his masterfully creative and ingenious works. (Image credit: Matilda 1st Edition cover. Fair use via Wikimedia Commons.)
“The Queen turned crimson with fury,* and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming ‘Off with her head! Off with——’ ‘Nonsense!’ said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.” - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Illustration by John Tenniel.

Children's Literature

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Another in our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #merrywives
"Shakespeare was widely admired in his own time, still more so after the publication of the First Folio. But he was not initially regarded as superior to all his contemporaries. ['English Literature: A Very Short Introduction'] #shakespeare #literature #books (Image: Wikimedia)
More from our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #muchado

Shakespeare

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Happy 206th birthday to Pride and Prejudice, published #OnThisDay in 1813. Image credit: An 1833 engraving of a scene from Chapter 59 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Pickering & Greatbatch. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. #janeausten #prideandprejudice #literature Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bennet, Books And Coffee, Book Tag, Henri Bergson, Digital History, Believe, Romantic Novel, Emotional Development
Pride and Prejudice
Happy 206th birthday to Pride and Prejudice, published #OnThisDay in 1813. Image credit: An 1833 engraving of a scene from Chapter 59 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Pickering & Greatbatch. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. #janeausten #prideandprejudice #literature
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Happy 210th birthday to Edgar Allan Poe! Image credit: Edgar Allan Poe 1895 by Felix Vallotton. Public domain via Flickr. #edgarallanpoe #americanwriters #literature #onthisday #otd Edgar Allan Poe, Artwork Painting, Sale Artwork, Critique D'art, Maurice Denis, Aubrey Beardsley, Alberto Giacometti, Portraits, Writers
Happy 210th birthday to Edgar Allan Poe! Image credit: Edgar Allan Poe 1895 by Felix Vallotton. Public domain via Flickr. #edgarallanpoe #americanwriters #literature #onthisday #otd
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
#OnThisDay in 1882, writer A.A. Milne was born. Best known for creating Winnie the Pooh, Milne was also an established playwright.  Image credit: Photograph of A.A. Milne by  E. O. Hoppé.  Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. #otd #aamilne #winniethepooh #childrensliterature #literature #winniethepoohday Christopher Robin Milne, Alan Alexander Milne, Childrens Poems, Childrens Authors, Important People In History, The Big Read, The Famous Five, House At Pooh Corner, Alex Rider
Milne, Alan Alexander [A. A. Milne] (1882–1956), writer
#OnThisDay in 1882, writer A.A. Milne was born. Best known for creating Winnie the Pooh, Milne was also an established playwright. Image credit: Photograph of A.A. Milne by E. O. Hoppé. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. #otd #aamilne #winniethepooh #childrensliterature #literature #winniethepoohday
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Martin Crimp is the latest playwright to have creatively interpreted Samuel Richardson's classic. #britishliterature #pamela #samuelrichardson #literature #theatre #nationaltheatre British Literature, History Of England, National Theatre, The Maids, National Portrait Gallery, Art Dealer, British Art, Mirror Image, Richardson
The tortures of adapting Samuel Richardson’s 'Pamela'
Martin Crimp is the latest playwright to have creatively interpreted Samuel Richardson's classic. #britishliterature #pamela #samuelrichardson #literature #theatre #nationaltheatre
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
Summer technically isn't over yet. There's still time to soak up some more sun with a few good reads! Classic Literature, Children's Literature, Best Children Books, Childrens Books, Kenneth Grahame, Anthony Trollope, Alice Book, Classic Kids, Oxford University Press
Best beach classics: the books you should be reading this summer
Summer technically isn't over yet. There's still time to soak up some more sun with a few good reads!
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
Think Hollywood Hearthrobs are a new phenomenon? Think again. (Image: Darcy à Netherfield by C.E. Brock. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.) Darcy Pride And Prejudice, British Period Dramas, Lizzie Bennet, Bridget Jones Diary, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen Novels, Bronte Sisters, Mr Darcy, Sharp Dressed Man
Calling All Harry Styles Fans: A History on Heartthrobs Is Here
Think Hollywood Hearthrobs are a new phenomenon? Think again. (Image: Darcy à Netherfield by C.E. Brock. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
Don’t do anything Jane Austen wouldn’t do. #JaneAusten #Austen #classicliterature #books Classic Books, Do Anything, Erotic, Tumblr, Book Cover, Tumbler
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Don’t do anything Jane Austen wouldn’t do. #JaneAusten #Austen #classicliterature #books
Do you know what "Wuthering Heights" is? Do you know what pseudonym Emily Brontë used to publish her book? Find out with a quiz on this famous work of literature. (Image: Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.) Mary Shelley, English Literature, Heathcliff Wuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights Quotes, Byronic Hero, Emily Brontë, Online Book Club, Best Essay Writing Service
How much do you know about Wuthering Heights? [quiz]
Do you know what "Wuthering Heights" is? Do you know what pseudonym Emily Brontë used to publish her book? Find out with a quiz on this famous work of literature. (Image: Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - review via Guardian Children's Books 'I felt rather lonely after the March sisters had gone as I loved their spirit and felt as if I was almost one of them, which is a clear sign of this book's greatness'  #LouisaMayAlcott #lit #classics #LittleWomen Louisa May Alcott, Bbc Radio, Penguin Books, Oxford Classics, Veritas Press, Book Whisperer, Army Chaplain, Reading Literature, Classical Education
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - review
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - review via Guardian Children's Books 'I felt rather lonely after the March sisters had gone as I loved their spirit and felt as if I was almost one of them, which is a clear sign of this book's greatness' #LouisaMayAlcott #lit #classics #LittleWomen
"Jacobs’ narrative similarly introduces incidents drawing on stock representations of slavery. For example, in both John Brown’s 1855 slave narrative, Slave Life in Georgia, and Jacobs’ Incidents painful cleansing agents are applied to a slave’s back just after a whipping; and slaves are tied up in a back-straining “buck” in order to enhance their pain." Girls Oxfords, John Brown, Slave Girl, Booker T, New York Public Library, Books To Buy, The Life
Harriet Jacobs: the life of a slave girl
"Jacobs’ narrative similarly introduces incidents drawing on stock representations of slavery. For example, in both John Brown’s 1855 slave narrative, Slave Life in Georgia, and Jacobs’ Incidents painful cleansing agents are applied to a slave’s back just after a whipping; and slaves are tied up in a back-straining “buck” in order to enhance their pain."
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
Another in our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #merrywives Concordance, Literature Books, Teaching English, The World's Greatest, Shakespeare, Libraries, Education
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Another in our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #merrywives
"Shakespeare was widely admired in his own time, still more so after the publication of the First Folio. But he was not initially regarded as superior to all his contemporaries. ['English Literature: A Very Short Introduction'] #shakespeare #literature #books (Image: Wikimedia) William Shakespeare, Shakespeare Sonnets, Shakespeare Plays, Shakespeare Portrait, Reading Shakespeare, Shakespeare Online, Shakespeare Facts, Communication Interculturelle, Harvard University
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"Shakespeare was widely admired in his own time, still more so after the publication of the First Folio. But he was not initially regarded as superior to all his contemporaries. ['English Literature: A Very Short Introduction'] #shakespeare #literature #books (Image: Wikimedia)
More from our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #muchado Mucha
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More from our out-of-print library! We love these covers from our old colourful Oxford Shakespeare Concordances series. #shakespeare #literature #books #libraries #muchado
The Lives, and Fictions, of Angela Carter (Image: Angela Carter. Fair use via Wikimedia Commons.) Science Fiction Authors, Fiction And Nonfiction, Mystique, Angela Carter, Woman Authors, Fantasy Authors, Godwin, British Library, Sci Fi Fantasy
The Lives, and Fictions, of Angela Carter
The Lives, and Fictions, of Angela Carter (Image: Angela Carter. Fair use via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Oxford Academic (OUP)
In December 1817, an advertisement appeared in the Morning Chronicle newspaper announcing the imminent publication of ‘Northanger Abbey, a Romance; and Persuasion, a Novel. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, etc.’ #Austen #JaneAusten #classiclit #books (Image: Wikimedia) Mary Bennet, Charlotte Bronte, Regency Fashion, Edwardian Fashion, Camila Lopez, Being A Writer
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In December 1817, an advertisement appeared in the Morning Chronicle newspaper announcing the imminent publication of ‘Northanger Abbey, a Romance; and Persuasion, a Novel. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, etc.’ #Austen #JaneAusten #classiclit #books (Image: Wikimedia)