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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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