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Book Cover for: Indicator: Amiscellany For The Fields And The Fireside, Leigh Hunt

Indicator: Amiscellany For The Fields And The Fireside

Leigh Hunt
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#OTD 1819 Shelley’s 'Love’s Philosophy' is published by Leigh Hunt in the The Indicator https://t.co/XVfU5bHV5A https://t.co/xxQXw0QK1C

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Book Cover for: Valperga: Or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Valperga: Or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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#OTD 1823 Publication of Mary Shelley's Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. "I have taken great liberties with it", wrote Godwin, who edited his daughter's novel for publication https://t.co/clTfTrE1rN

Hardcover, 2022

$33.95Member price:$30.56 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: William Wordsworth - The Prelude: "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.", William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - The Prelude: "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

William Wordsworth
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#OTD 1812 Wordsworth writes to his wife: "Write to me frequently & the longest Letters possible… fill your paper with the breathings of your heart" https://t.co/pMwKxXR1ll

Paperback, 2015

$15.24Member price:$7.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lord Byron: Six Plays, Lord George Gordon Byron

Lord Byron: Six Plays

Lord George Gordon Byron
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Today's picture: a walking stick with a metal band engraved: "George Gordon Lord Byron Newstead 1808". The mermaid is from the Byron family crest @Newstead_Abbey https://t.co/zqzpVZwWxA

Paperback, 2007

$29.95Member price:$28.45 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, William Godwin

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

William Godwin
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#OTD 1793 William Godwin's enormously influential Enquiry Concerning Political Justice is published. And here Simon Court blogs on the importance that book had https://t.co/HkJ4BKP6cG https://t.co/KUFqlNK64Z

Paperback, 2022

$20.95Member price:$18.86 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Fanny Keats, Marie Adami

Fanny Keats

Marie Adami
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Today's picture: Fanny, Keats's sister. And here's more about her, in a post on Keats's circle by @pumps1000 https://t.co/fgB2byGEe0 https://t.co/b8hCWMoSmZ #RomanticsPics

Hardcover, 2010

$47.95Member price:$43.15 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Newstead Abbey: Its Present Owner [Colonel Thomas Wildman] With Reminiscences of Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron Byron

Newstead Abbey: Its Present Owner [Colonel Thomas Wildman] With Reminiscences of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Byron
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Today's picture: a walking stick with a metal band engraved: "George Gordon Lord Byron Newstead 1808". The mermaid is from the Byron family crest @Newstead_Abbey https://t.co/zqzpVZwWxA

Paperback, 2023

$15.95Member price:$14.35 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Keats: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington, John Keats

Keats: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington

John Keats
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#OTD 1817 Keats receives finished copies of 'Poems by John Keats'. And here @ColSilverUK blogs on Keats' relationship with his publishers, and how that volume of poems got into print https://t.co/6TfYxAh3ce https://t.co/2bMpA2cCrc

Hardcover, 1994

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Adventures of Caleb Williams: Things as They Are, William Godwin

The Adventures of Caleb Williams: Things as They Are

William Godwin
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#OTD 1794 William Godwin publishes his novel Caleb Williams, or 'Things as They Are', which dramatises his political ideas in fiction. Here's Simon Court on William Godwin, Political Justice, anarchism and the Romantics https://t.co/HkJ4BKP6cG https://t.co/vwRRV3l3He

Paperback, 2016

$10.95Member price:$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind..., William Wordsworth

The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind...

William Wordsworth
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For the #12DaysOfChristmas, Day 3 Wordsworth describes a hen, from Book 7 of The Prelude… https://t.co/M2eiP4aV9x 'Behold the parent hen amid her brood, Though fledged and feathered, and well pleased to part And straggle from her presence, still a brood' #ThreeFrenchHens https://t.co/PpjFjLs0aU

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