Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 7
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 7
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November7 #DanielDefoe #RichardSteele #ElenaFerrante #MichellePorter #EdPark #booksky
“I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.”
— Richard Steele
#Bluesky #RichardSteele #BackhandedCompliments #AuthenticPraise #CommunicationMatters #EmotionalIntelligence #SayWhatYouMean #MindfulSpeech #SocialEtiquette #WordsMatter
🔴1597 William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance
🔴1705 Richard Steele's play "Tender Husband" premieres in London
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#April23
#WilliamShakespeare
#RichardSteele
Good morning #booksky! 🌞
QOTD. Do you know of any literary events that happened on this day?
QOTD. Have you read any books from today's list?
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#April23
#WilliamShakespeare
#RichardSteele
#FyodorDostoyevsky
#HaroldPinter
#Plato
🔴1709 Richard Steele's British literary and society journal "The Tatler" is first published establishing a new type of journalism featuring essays on contemporary manners
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#april12
#RichardSteele
Good morning #booksky!
QOTD. Do you know of any literary events that happened on this day?
QOTD. Have you read any books from today's list?
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#april12
#RichardSteele
#GustaveFlaubert
#HenrikIbsen
#LillianHellman
#AnneRice
#HannahRichell
"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
✒ Sir #RichardSteele, Irish writer and politician, was #BOTD 12 March 1672. #Literature
🔴 1711 #richardsteele and #josephaddison publish the 1st edition of "The Spectator" in London to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality"
🔴 1890 1st US edition of #sherlockholmes ' first story "A Study in Scarlet" by #arthurconandoyle published
#todayinhistory
#march1
#OTD
