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The version of Alice shown here was published in 1890 for an audience of under-fives. Entitled The Nursery Alice, it was adapted by Lewis Carroll himself for younger readers. https://t.co/IXN5tWtMue

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Today is the 210th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. If you love this classic story, you can help us continue to care for it (and many others) by adopting a book in our collection 👉https://t.co/0KDopVC9Ck ✏️ Illustration by Charles Edmund Brock 📑 012621.h.17 https://t.co/oMqFVu06Ah

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English author William Makepeace Thackeray was born #OTD in 1811. His first full-length fiction Catherine, a Story (1839–40) told the tale of an 18th-century thief and murderer, Catherine Hayes. #ManuscriptMonday Read more: https://t.co/guysMMbELo 📜 P.P.5979 https://t.co/F9hHLXwQUV

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Q3: Under what pseudonym did Charlotte Bronte first publish Jane Eyre?

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‘The History of England… By a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian’, was written by Jane Austen when she was 16, and illustrated by her sister Cassandra. See the manuscript here: https://t.co/5bwcOSFBWk https://t.co/V8oo7yV5QZ

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Elsewhere, did you know this year marks 100years since James Joyce’s Ulysses was published? Join writers Anne Enright and Eimear McBride as they share their feelings on the great modernist masterpiece of literature - and ask: what has Joyce done for us? 👉https://t.co/TrmMRSzmeT https://t.co/HMx8YZFt6u

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Can you name the characters pictured here? These whimsical, dramatic illustrations were produced for Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist by Frederick Pailthorpe in 1885. We have them in the Library at 📜Shelfmark Dex.312 (2) #ItemOfTheWeek 🧵 Take a look here: https://t.co/aUWPqb6RMy https://t.co/Vit0g7m5Pe

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All this creativity eventually led to some of the most fascinating novels of the early 19th century. Charlotte Brontë is now primarily known as the author of Jane Eyre (1847), Emily as the author of Wuthering Heights (1847)...

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@BL_Shop ..Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond The British History Puzzle Book by Philip Parker Sunless Solstice, edited by Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk The Philosophy of Whisky by Billy Abbott 👉https://t.co/eK0AfEx8aq [3/3] https://t.co/rNqD5TsuIu

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In the Brothers Grimm version of Snow White, what happens to the evil stepmother at the end when she’s invited to Snow White's wedding?

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