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Chantal Tseng, the "mixologist behind a D.C. bar's 'Literary Cocktails' series, shares some of her favorite literature-inspired drinks" at Electric Lit.
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"A literary map of the United Kingdom" was offered by Quid Corner.
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"Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet engraved with 13 verses of The Odyssey in the ancient city of Olympia, southern Greece," the Guardian reported.
July 30, 2018, marks the 200th birthday of Emily Brontë, poet and author of Wuthering Heights. Emily (1818-1848) belonged to a family as gifted by literary talent as they were struck by tragedy. Charlotte Brontë, author of Jane Eyre, died at age 38; Anne Brontë, author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, died at age 29; brother Branwell Brontë, poet and painter, died at age 31; two older sisters and the Brontës' mother also died young. Emily, Anne and Charlotte first appeared in print under the names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell to avoid prejudices against female writers. The first edition of their collected poetry sold only two copies but spurred the sisters to complete their novels. The success of Charlotte's Jane Eyre made later reprints of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell far more widely read.
Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell. It was released in the first two volumes of a three-volume format, the last of which was taken up by Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. Early critics found Emily's gothic tale of passion and tragedy on the moors of Yorkshire alarming in its dramatic intensity and baffling in structure. Still, the work has endured in the literary canon. After Emily's death, Charlotte released a second edition with her own minor edits. Wuthering Heights is available from Penguin Classics (9780141439556). Earlier this month, Oxford University Press released an anniversary edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (9780198819950). --Tobias Mutter
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