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#HappyBirthday Charlotte Brontë was born on this day in 1816. Passionate, deeply intelligent, outspoken, and charmingly unaffected—Brontë was an arresting, complex woman. https://t.co/x7d7aruCJU

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#OTD in 1925, Charles Scribner’s Sons published The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Jazz Age” novel. https://t.co/NdNr4uCzkO

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#OTD in 1925, Charles Scribner’s Sons published The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Jazz Age” novel. https://t.co/NdNr4uCzkO

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On this day in 1843, Chapman & Hall published the first edition of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. If you read it carefully, you may find reference to these “walking streetlamps.” (hint: look in Stave One) #OTD https://t.co/foV3qEEWit

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Mary Wollstonecraft also wasn’t scared of critics. She’d penned and published the explosive A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. She could, and would, write whatever book she had in her head. https://t.co/MBkOOgFtsZ

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A court decision removed the ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses in the United States in 1933. It may also have discouraged UK officials from enforcing that nation’s obscenity laws in regard to the novel. https://t.co/BRQWwKVSm0 #BannedBooksWeek

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#OTD in 1881 [O.S. January 28], a pulmonary hemorrhage ended the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. https://t.co/zAT5kAPDKX

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“Dopesick,” Beth Macy’s book that inspired the Hulu show of the same name, told us how the overdose crisis started. In “Raising Lazarus,” she talks about how it might end. https://t.co/S2uJrIMYXY

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As a student in 1850s Britain, Symonds read Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus, encountering paiderastia—the social and erotic relationship between older and younger Athenian men. https://t.co/qI1XJAHoXA

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Wollstonecraft’s "Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" sold well and helped alleviate attitudes toward women traveling alone, having adventures, and writing about those adventures for a profit. https://t.co/MBkOOgG1ix