December 2011
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Happy Deathday, Ms. Brontë!
On this day in 1848, English novelist, Emily Brontë, died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty.
Emily, of the famed “Brontë Sisters”, was the middle sister and the author of the novel, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. Tragically, this is the only novel published by the young writer, although she did pen several poems , often under the alias of...
“Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that...”
– ~Walt Whitman
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Happy Deathday, Ms. Wheatley!
On this day, in 1784, Phillis Wheatley, the first prominent black poet in the United States of America, died from unspecified causes at the age of 31, followed shortly after by her infant son.
Born in Gambia, Wheatley was made a slave at age seven. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston. Thankfully, this family taught her to read and write, and always encouraged the young...
“Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: “Fool!” said my muse...”
– Philip Sydney