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Endre Ady was born #OTD in 1877.
Some of his notable poetry collections include "Új versek" (New Poems, 1906), "A Holnap" (Tomorrow, 1908), and "A halottak élén" (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).
Books by Endre Ady at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489
CIVIS Webinar: Poor Things Revisited
Sorcha Dallas introduces the Alasdair Gray Archive & discusses POOR THINGS and its digital guide. Lauren Forde discusses her research work on this novel. Lauren & Sorcha together examine the film adaptation, which is placed in the context of what material is available at the Archive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWsP7NSfa0
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #archive #PoorThings #film #adaptation
José-Maria de Heredia was born #OTD in 1842.
He published in 1893 Les Trophées comprising 198 sonnets that retrace the history of the world or depict privileged moments as well as four longer poems.
José-Maria de Heredia at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5697
Call for papers
“The Years That Followed”: The Afterlives of Lord Byron
49th International Byron Conference
30 June–5 July 2025, Pisa
Byron’s long shadow touches many traditions: this Conference welcomes critical explorations of his legacy in all its transnational & interdisciplinary dimensions.
https://www.iabsconferencepisa2025.com/call-for-papers/
#Scottish #British #English #literature #Byron #Romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury #poetry
From 2014: Alexander Hutchison reads his poem “Everything”
“Taken as a whole, reading Alexander Hutchison’s poetry is like coming across fragments of a Psalter or song-book or of North-eastern folk ditties – elegant, humorous and deft by turns – all clasped within the ragged covers of a rumbustious, medieval recipe book for everything.”
—David Kinloch on the poetry of Alexander Hutchison
https://www.davidkinloch.co.uk/journal/the-poetry-of-alexander-hutchison
There’s nae sae mony meenits i the day
that a body widna ettle tae hae
a few meenits mair…
—Roderick Watson, “A Rain Poem for Sandy Hutchison (1943–2015)”
Published in With Their Best Clothes On: New Writing Scotland 36
Poet, scholar & translator Alexander Hutchison died #OTD, 22 November
"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel."
Jack London died #OTD in 1916.
A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
Abby Morton Diaz was born #OTD in 1821.
Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, she became involved in the reform movements of the 19th century, particularly those related to women's suffrage, education, and labor.
Abby Morton Diaz at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2166
Jura: George Orwell’s Scottish Hideaway
Discover the austere island retreat where Big Brother was born.
By: Rob Crossan
https://daily.jstor.org/jura-george-orwells-scottish-hideaway/
See Rare First-Edition Copies of Jane Austen’s Novels at the Cottage Where She Wrote and Revised Them
By Julia Binswanger
Mind that night in November, the pair of us
bursting from Mareel like late-comers
to the cinema-dark of the evening.
How we nearly missed it, the other show
that night: the aurora, the dancers, unspooling
their reels of green across the sky…
—Roseanne Watt, “Mareel”
published in MODER DY, (Polygon, 2019)
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/moder-dy/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Shetland #November #aurora #auroraborealis
#OTD in 1748.
The first instalment of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, is published anonymously by John Cleland to raise money to free himself from the London debtors' prison. It is considered by some to be the first modern erotic novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill
Memoirs of Fanny Hill at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305
"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
French writer, deist and philosopher Voltaire was born #OTD in 1694. He established himself as one of the leading writers of the enlightenment.
Books by Voltaire at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913
#OTD in 1846.
The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_String_of_Pearls
The String of Pearls at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59828
