February 2012
10 posts
Images from Google Street View.
Little snapshots of our lovely, sometimes goofy, world.
To My Old Master →
from Letters of Note
If only I had declared this kind of ownership over...
“In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain. People had been writing novels for a century—most critics date the genre to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody aspired to do it professionally. Many works of fiction appeared anonymously, with attributions like “By a Lady.”
From ‘Charles in Charge’ by Radhika Jones