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Mr. Lumbik was the first guest to arrive, rather too early. He had a big bunch of flowers in tissue paper, and wore a tweed jacket with leather buttons, which gave him a jaunty air. “A happy birthday…
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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1960
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Wenceslaus Hollar
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Arundel, Kingdom of Great Britain (Arundel, United Kingdom)
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1644
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As the first and most beautiful relationship in which woman is undeniably necessary to man—the object of his first affections, to whom he owes all of cherishing, happiness, and health, from infancy to…
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Grace Aguilar
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Brighton, United Kingdom
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1844
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Rebecca Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
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1861
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Olive liked her new job very much. She had never before tasted such rich, well-cooked food in her life. She put on weight. She was contented.
There wasn’t too much work; just cleaning the…
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Simon Blumenfeld
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London, United Kingdom
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1935
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There are two things I ought to make clear. First, almost as soon as she starts telling me about her career (as we wade through the sleet from the bus stop to the market), my grandmother declares that…
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Masha Gessen
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Moscow, Russia
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1998
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Some two years ago Nata had been deported from Warsaw to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Now she was free, but still unable to come to grips with life, so newly regained, though in the first breath…
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Mina Tomkiewicz
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London, United Kingdom
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1955
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There is no city in the world which can bear comparison in point of interest with Jerusalem,—fallen, desolate, and abject even as it appears—changed as it has been…
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Judith Cohen Montefiore
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London, United Kingdom
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1836
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Struck out of dim fluctuant forces and shock of electrical vapour,
Repelled and attracted the atoms flashed mingling in union primeval,
And over the face of the waters far heaving…
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Mathilde Blind
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London, United Kingdom of Great
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1889
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Today for you all there is an opportunity more important than any that has ever before been given to you.
The boys out in France and Egypt are learning the value of their homes. We believe that they…
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Lily Montagu
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Littlehampton, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Littlehampton, United Kingdom)
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1916