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Natascha McElhone and Vanessa Redgrave as
Mrs. Dalloway young and old, in the 1997
film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Teresa of Avila (1515; died October 4, 1582) Spanish saint and mystic who wrote her
Autobiography;
El Camino de Perfeccion (
The Way of Perfection);
El Castillo Interior (
The Interior Castle)
Maxim Gorky (1868; died June 18, 1936) Russian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and poet; short story Twenty-six Men and a Girl; poem "The Song of the Stormy Petrel"; novel
The Mother; plays
The Lower Depths,
Summerfolk and
Children of the Sun
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian novelist, short story writer, and essayist;
The Time of the Hero;
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter;
The War of the End of the World;
The Feast of the Goat;
The Bad Girl; Nobel Prize in Literature (2010)
Died on this day:
Marquis de Condorcet (1794; born September 17, 1743) French philosopher known for
The Progress of the Human Mind
Modest Mussorgsky (1881; born March 21, 1839) Russian composer;
Boris Godunov;
Night on Bald Mountain;
Pictures at an Exhibition
Virginia Woolf (1941; born January 25, 1882) English novelist, essayist, and critic;
Mrs. Dalloway;
To the Lighthouse;
Orlando;
A Room of One's Own;
How to Read a Book
W. C. Handy (1958; born November 16, 1873) American composer and performer; "St. Louis Blues"; "Beale Street Blues"
Marc Chagall (1985; born July 6, 1887) Russian-French artist;
I and the Village;
Adam and Eve;
The Fiddler;
Bouquet with Flying Lovers;
Bella with White Collar;
The Circus Horse;
The Father
Eugene Ionesco (1994; born November 26, 1909) Romanian-French playwright;
The Bald Soprano;
The Killer;
Rhinoceros
Bonus Classic:
Tu Long (c. 1542-1605) Chinese playwright and essayist;
Kao Pan Yu Shi (
Desultory Remarks on Furnishing the Abode of the Retired Scholar)
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