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Dickon Sowerby (Andrew Knott), Colin Craven (Heydon Prowse),
and Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) in the 1993 film adaptation
of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
James Boswell (1740; died May 19, 1795) Scottish biographer;
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Jean Giraudoux (1882; died January 31, 1944) French novelist, essayist, and playwright; plays
The Madwoman of Chaillot;
Ondine;
Duel of Angels;
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
Died on this day:
Walter Raleigh (1618; born unknown date, c. 1554) English writer;
The Historie of the World (incomplete);
The Discovery of Guiana; other essays and poems
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1924; born November 24, 1849) English-American novelist and playwright;
Little Lord Fauntleroy;
A Little Princess;
The Secret Garden
G. I. Gurdjieff (1949; born January 13, 1866) Armenian philosopher and mystic;
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Bonus Classic:
Chretien de Troyes (1130-1191) French poet;
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion;
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart;
Erec and Enide;
Cligès;
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (unfinished?)
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