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We are excited to announce Helena Bonham Carter CBE as our new President.📚 Helena has been chosen for her connections with literature and has been a Library member since 1986. She is delighted to “champion an institution that is open to all.” Read more:

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An amazing discovery on the shelves of @TheLondonLib !! We've found the very books that #BramStoker used and annotated to research #Dracula ! Click here for the full story:

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"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." Happy birthday #MaryWollstonecraft - pioneering advocate of women's rights & mother of #MaryShelley - born #OTD 1759. Celebrating with this 1792 2nd edition of her "Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

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500 yrs ago today #MartinLuther 's 95 theses appeared & the #Reformation was unleashed. Very proud to own this original 1517 print version

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#Onthisday 1932, The Times debuted its new look unveiling the famous Times New Roman typeface, specially designed for it by Stanley Morison.

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Today is #LibraryShelfieDay ! In the interests of promoting shelf awareness, here's a peek into @TheLondonLib Back Stacks - opened in 1898 by #VirginiaWoolf 's father and part of the 17 miles of shelves we've got here!

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2 years

⚡️FLASH SALE!⚡️ Get 15% off London Library membership with the discount code SPRINGFORWARD. Just apply it when joining online through the link in our bio 👆 Terms and conditions apply and can also be found in our bio.

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We are looking forward to the new #Dracula adaptation on @BBCOne at 9pm tonight! #DidYouKnow #BramStoker did much of his research at The London Library & we recently found the books, complete with notes, on our shelves?

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6 years

Books bring enlightenment. Celebrating books, writers and the power of the written word for #WorldBookDay !

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It's #JaneAusten 's birthday! Born #onthisday 1775 the great novelist saw her first novel, #SenseandSensibility published 36 years later. Thought we'd celebrate by settling down for the weekend with our 1853 copy - still on the shelves and still getting borrowed!

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“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” #MaryWollstonecraft - pioneering advocate of women's rights - died #OTD 1797 following the birth of #MaryShelley . Her "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" was published 5 years earlier. Here's our 2nd edition.

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#VirginiaWoolf 's great novel "To the Lighthouse" was published #onthisday 1927. The first edition ran to 3000 copies - this is one of them.

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This weekend we were thrilled to welcome very special guest @tomhanks to The London Library! Tom initially discovered the Library through @simonwwriter 's book Knowing What We Know’ and decided to pay us an impromptu visit. We look forward to welcoming him back in the future. 📚

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"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” #VirginiaWoolf 's "Room of One's Own" published #OTD 1929

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“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” ― Dr. Seuss Time to get some serious reading in as we gear up to celebrate #WorldBookDay !!

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It’s our 178th birthday today! #onthisday 1841 @TheLondonLib opened its doors for the first time - 178 years later thousands of members are using our amazing collection of over 1m books and finding inspiration in our stacks and reading rooms.

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#JaneAusten 's fourth novel "Emma" was published #onthisday 1815 in three volumes. Very proud to give our first editions a tour of the Library today!

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It’s @TheLondonLib ’s 179th birthday!! #CharlesDickens , #WilliamThackeray & #ThomasCarlyle opened the doors on 3 May 1841 and we’ve been lending books ever since. We’ve got 1m of them and are busy beating lockdown with postal loans and a huge e-library. Hardly find time to party!

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6 years

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” Celebrating the 175th anniversary of #HenryJames , born #OTD 1843. With over 200 of his books on our shelves, we've got a lot of celebrating to do today!

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"A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Marcus Tullius #Cicero Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, assassinated #onthisday 7 December 43BC

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9 months

We are delighted to welcome members back to the Reading Rooms! They are now officially open with a new, plush green carpet and improved power points.✨

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"Your library is your paradise" - Desiderius Erasmus. #LibrariesWeek

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6 years

Next stop it’s the Reading Room, where #ASByatt begins her novel ‘Possession’, where George Smiley has a favourite desk in ‘Smiley’s People’ and where #ArthurConanDoyle sends Watson for some research. #BookLoversDay

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150 years ago today #WilkieCollins ' "The Moonstone" was born, published in weekly parts in #CharlesDickens ' "All the Year Round" and seen by many as the first detective novel in the English language. Here's our copy of the chapter that spawned a genre, published #onthisday 1868.

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#JaneAusten 's #PrideandPrejudice was first published, anonymously, #onthisday 1813. A month later it received its first review (in the literary journal 'British Critic').... They liked it! Here's our 1813 copy:

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Today is our 182nd birthday! 🎉 #OnThisDay in 1841 we opened our doors for the very first time, housing around 3,000 books. Almost 200 years later, we hold around a million volumes and continue adding around 6,000 new ones every year!

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Earth shattering events come in many forms! #Onthisday 1932 The Times proudly unveiled its classic new font - #TimesNewRoman . Designed by Stanley Morison and two years in the making, it went on to dominate the world of typography into the digital age

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Libraries bring sunshine into our lives! #WhatLibrariesDo

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For #BannedBooksWeek , here's our 1859 copy of #GeorgeEliot 's first novel, #Adam Bede, banned by the then hugely popular Mudie's circulating libraries as "The vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind".

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Hideous weather all morning - probably time to unfurl this little beauty again! #britishsummertime

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It's #InternationalLiteracyDay today! A good time to reflect on the enduring power of the written word.

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#GeorgeEliot (real name Mary Ann Evans) was born #OTD 1819. 40 years later she joined @TheLondonLib and her 1st novel #AdamBede appeared. The Library didn’t stock fiction at the time; founder #ThomasCarlyle made an exception arguing her work should be shelved under ‘Philosophy’.

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“I love the idea of a place where books are born” 📚 Helena Bonham Carter, our first female Library President, talks about her new role in this stunning Sunday Times Magazine interview by @RosamundUrwin

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6 years

It's #ReadABookDay today and we're celebrating in the only way we know how - by reading books. We've got a million of them here to borrow @TheLondonLib so we're anticipating the celebrations could be going on for a while!

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Happy #BloomsDay ! - celebrating all things #JamesJoyce and marking the 16 June day #OTD 1904, when Ulysses is set. We've got a quiet celebration going on @TheLondonLib : our Ulysses first edition - no 316 of only 1000 produced in Paris in Feb 1922 as the book was banned elsewhere.

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The London Library Emerging Writers Programme opens for submissions today! The Programme is geared towards supporting writers at the start of their careers✍️ Applications close at 11am on 28 February 2024. Find out more and how to apply:

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4 years

The London Library Christmas card is now on sale! The card features a design of a Christmas tree being dressed in the Reading Room by illustrator @tomgauld . 8 cards and envelopes cost £8 including postage, buy online and support the Library

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3 years

Exciting discovery for our 180th anniversary! We’ve just unveiled the Library borrowing records of #CharlesDarwin - one of our first members - revealing him as a voracious reader, borrowing 100s of books from history to travel. And he returned them all!

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6 years

“I’ll tell you how the Sun rose – A ribbon at a time”. (Emily Dickinson) Love it when the May sunlight starts reaching into our Literature stacks! #sunshine #poetry

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6 years

Remembering #CharlotteBronte who died #onthisday 1855, eight years after the publication of her masterpiece #JaneEyre . She was never a member of @TheLondonLib , but dedicating the second edition of Jane Eyre to our first auditor - William Makepeace Thackeray - is enough for us!

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#CharlesDickens ' classic "A Christmas Carol" is 175 years old today!! The Christmas tale that has captured imaginations from the minute it first appeared was published #onthisday 1843, two years after Dickens joined @TheLondonLib as a founder member. Here's our 1845 edition.

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23 years after she joined @TheLondonLib as a life member, #VirginiaWoolf published her great novel "To the Lighthouse" #onthisday 1927. The first edition ran to 3000 copies - this is one of them.

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Happy birthday #SenseandSensibility ! #JaneAusten 's landmark first novel was published #onthisday 1811. Her's our 1853 copy - still being borrowed!

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"The Adventures of #Sherlock Holmes" was first published #onthisday 1892, bringing together the 12 stories that had appeared individually in the Strand Magazine the previous year. Here's our much-prized - and very well-thumbed - 1892 edition.

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It's #BookLoversDay today and we thought we'd celebrate all things books by wandering the shelves @TheLondonLib - one milllion books, from 1700 to the present day, waiting to be borrowed. Our tour kicks off in the hallowed penumbra of the Library's famous Stacks:

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7 years

Another sensational blockbuster frm the shelves at @TheLondonLib ! The unfurling narrative is so well handled & makes a real point at the end

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Today is #AdaLovelaceDay ! Time to celebrate remarkable Ada, the great pioneer of computing, mathematician, writer, Byron's daughter and one-time neighbour of @TheLondonLib . (The Lovelaces moved out a year after The Library set up in St James's Square. Couldn't stand the noise?)

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6 years

We're installing nine rather lovely desks in our 1890s Literature stacks. The first six arrived today and are now in place. Looks like they're going to provide hugely atmospheric places to work - and the views across St James's Square aren't too bad either!

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"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass." Hoping for Winter's end soon as we celebrate poet #EdwardThomas , who was born #onthisday 1878

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4 years

Empower your imagination at The London Library - a place of creativity and inspiration. Members can browse and borrow from over one million books, access thousands of online resources, and use our beautiful spaces to read, write and think.

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Happy birthday #JaneEyre ! #CharlotteBronte 's masterpiece was first published #onthisday 1847. She dedicated it to #WilliamThackeray whose #VanityFair had begun appearing in monthly instalments in Punch earlier that year.

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3 years

It’s 12th April, our doors are open and we are officially over-excited! Lovely to welcome members back to @TheLondonLib today! #LibraryLiberation

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3 years

@weetabix @HeinzUK If this is the breakfast option we might skip it altogether and tuck into a proper meal, courtesy of Mrs B, as found on the shelves of @TheLondonLib .

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6 years

"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be... and I am at a loss to conceive... why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man." #AnneBronte #InternationalWomensDay

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The Times reports on the 1915 trial that banned #DHLawrence 's newly-published "The Rainbow" for obscenity, the Court ordering 1,011 copies to be seized and burnt. We're very proud to have one of the 1915 copies that got away - now safely housed in @TheLondonLib . #BannedBooksWeek

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Poet and novelist #ThomasHardy was born #onthisday 1840. Celebrating with a light browse through the handsome 27 volume limited edition set of his works produced by Macmillan in 1919 - and signed by the great man himself.

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📢Applications for our Emerging Writers Programme open 1 week from today! Successful applicants will receive a year’s free membership to The London Library, peer support, and more. Learn more:

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#MaryShelley was born #onthisday 1797. Her enduring masterpiece #Frankenstein was completed 20 years later and published anonymously in 1818.

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Happy birthday to the #LondonUndergound , which began transporting passengers #onthisday 1863. Fascinating to flick through the Illustrated London News as it previews the seven stations about to open on the Metropolitan Underground Railway - the world's first underground line.

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Remembering #CharlotteBronte who aged 38, died #onthisday 1855, eight years after the publication of her masterpiece #JaneEyre .

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Aged 41, the great #JaneAusten died 200 yrs ago #onthisday 1817. Proud to have this 1853 copy of #SenseandSensibility still on our shelves!

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#PrideandPrejudice - #JaneAusten 's classic second novel - was published anonymously #onthisday 1813. We're settling into Sunday with this 1856 edition that nestles with great decorum on our shelves.

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For #BannedBooksWeek here's the Times reporting on the 1915 trial banning #DHLawrence 's "The Rainbow" for obscenity, the Court ordering 1,011 copies to be seized and burnt. The book was unavailable in the UK for 11 years. Very proud to display one the 1915 copies that got away.

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Happy birthday #ArthurConanDoyle ! King of detective fiction (and a revered member of @TheLondonLib ) who was born #onthisday 1859. Celebrating with a run through our copies of The Strand magazine where many of his works were first serialised. Love browsing these editions!

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It's #NationalQuietDay today, celebrating all things quiet. We've installed sophisticated monitoring equipment in "Snorers' Corner" in The London Library Reading Room to check decibel levels don't get out of hand. (Keen to avoid last year's hefty fines for persistent breaches).

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The sun streams in to light up the 396 books by @TheLondonLib member #JosephConrad who died #onthisday 1924.

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#Onthisday 1941, the world lost one of its great novelists when #VirginiaWoolf filled her coat pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse. Her body was recovered three weeks later. The Times obituary reports on a "serious loss to English letters".

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5 years

It was great to welcome @KillingEve to the Library for some filming. Here’s a top secret meeting happening in our very atmospheric backstacks, home to some of our 1 million books. See more from inside the Library here: #KillingEve #LibraryLove

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"Cranford" by #ElizabethGaskell was introduced to the world #onthisday 1851, serialised in "Household Words", the weekly literary journal of @TheLondonLib founder member #CharlesDickens . Here's our original copy of the first chapter of a much loved classic.

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#WilkieCollins ' "The Moonstone" first appeared #onthisday 1868. Serialised in weekly parts in #CharlesDickens ' "All the Year Round" it set the trend as one of the first detective novels in the English language. Here's our copy of the opening chapter that spawned a genre.

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Happy birthday #IrisMurdoch born 100 years ago #OTD 1919. She and husband-to-be John Bayley went on an early date @TheLondonLib , seeking out a quiet corner to embrace. At last they found seclusion in the stacks. "We clung to each other in the semi-darkness", she wrote. "J wept."

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#OTD 1924 the world saw this bear for the first time, when Punch began serialising "When we Were Very Young" and showcasing EH Shepherd's drawings. Edward Bear as he was called at the time wouldn't be named #WinniethePooh until 1926. Here's our 1924 copy of a Punch classic:

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"The London Library is so cool. I used to go there to read scripts all the time". @TimeOutLondon sees former #vampire and future #Batman #RobertPattinson waxing lyrical about @TheLondonLib (fittingly the very Library where #BramStoker researched #Dracula )

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'She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when"'. Happy birthday #PGWodehouse , born #OTD 1881!

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4 years

We've launched our Emerging Writers Programme for 2020! Up to 40 places now available for writers at the start of their careers, offering free access to @TheLondonLib 's amazing collection, writing masterclasses & great networking opportunities! To apply:

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"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end." Celebrating the birthday of #VirginiaWoolf who began her own journey through the luminous halo #OTD 1882

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It's our birthday today & we're celebrating 176 yrs of lending, learning & literature! (Trying hard not to be too loud in the Reading Room)

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6 years

Perfect reading list for a bit of half time reading!! #ItsComingHome #ENGCRO #WaistcoatWednesday

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"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." #VirginiaWoolf 's great feminist essay "A Room of One's Own" was first published #onthisday 1929. Proud to have a 1929 copy on our shelves

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#onthisday 1904, just two days after the funeral of her father (man of letters and @TheLondonLib President Leslie Stephen), 22 year old #VirginiaWoolf came into the Library and signed up for life membership, identifying her occupation as "spinster". Here's her joining form:

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It's our birthday today!!! @TheLondonLib opened its doors 177 years ago #onthisday 1841 and has been lending great books to great members ever since! To celebrate, we're getting ready to party in the way only we know how. Could be in for a quite a night!

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"It may be said of him, with little or no exaggeration, that he adorned everything he touched". The Times obituary for #William Morris - Arts & Craft designer, poet, novelist & @TheLondonLib member, who died #OTD 1896. Savouring our Kelmscott Chaucer from his #Kelmscott Press.

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We’ve launched our new #EmergingWritersProgramme for 2020/21 to support currently unpublished writers in any genre develop their writing careers. Up to 40 participants get free Library membership and a programme of writing support. Apply by 5 March!

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"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be... and I am at a loss to conceive... why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man." #AnneBronte #InternationalWomensDay

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"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off." 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' #LordByron was born #OTD 1788. Thought we'd spend time browsing the 134 copies of his work on our Literature shelves to celebrate the birthday of this great - and notorious - Romantic poet.

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#Onthisday 1941, the world lost one of its great novelists when #VirginiaWoolf took her own life, drowning herself in the River Ouse in Sussex. Her body was recovered three weeks later. The Times obituary reports on a "serious loss to English letters".

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"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." #RobertGraves - poet, novelist, biographer, and the man who saved friend and fellow @TheLondonLib member #SiegfriedSassoon from court martial - was born #onthisday 1895. #poetry

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"No words can express the secret agony of my soul...the sense I had of being utterly neglected and hopeless...the misery it was to my young heart". #onthisday 1824, 12 year old #CharlesDickens began work at Warren's blacking factory. A boy called Fagin befriended him there.

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Happy birthday to the clever Countess next door but one! #AdaLovelace , celebrated pioneer of computing (working on what are regarded as the first algorithms), daughter of Lord Byron and neighbour of @TheLondonLib - born #onthisday 1815.

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What a delight to have welcomed the lovely @ReeseW and family to the Library this week! @ReesesBookClub supports writers from under-represented groups and access to literacy. We loved showing her around the Stacks and our collection of 1m books. @jsn_goodwin

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"I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed. She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow". Cassandra Austen laments the death of her sister #JaneAusten , who died #OTD 1817,

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"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." Happy birthday to novelist #HenryJames , born #onthisday 1843. With 200 of his books on our shelves, we've got a busy day ahead!

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24 hours to go until @TheLondonLib opens up its building at 10am tomorrow after nearly 16 weeks of lockdown. Lovely to wake up this morning to today’s @Telegraph feature taking a look inside this ‘National treasure’ with 1m books to borrow.

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Congratulations to our newest cohort of Emerging Writers who have won a place on the 2022/23 programme. Out of 950 submissions, 40 outstanding applicants were carefully selected across a diversity of discipline and genre. You can get to know them here:

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“Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom.” - #SiegfriedSasson #Armistice2018 #RemembranceDay2018

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Great to see @AnupamPKher and @Sathnam outside @TheLondonLib yesterday. #TheBoyWithTheTopKnot is a great book (written inside the Library!), and Anupam Kher outstanding in the @bbctwo adaptation. Don't leave it so long, you guys - we'd love to see you here again soon!

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I am with @Sathnam outside London Library. This is where he wrote #TheBoyWithTheTopKnot . I play his father in the @bbctwo adaptation of the book. Tonight is @bafta awards & I am nominated in the #BestSupportingActor category. Send us your love and wishes..:) #KuchBhiHoSaktaHai

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#EMForster 's #HowardsEnd was first published #OTD 1910, four years after Forster joined The London Library (he remained a member for the rest of his life). Here's our 1910 first edition, plus the real-life house in Stevenage which sits at the centre of Forster's novel

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"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read." Happy birthday Dr Johnson - author, lexicographer, man of letters and creator of the classic 'Dictionary of the English Language' - who was born #onthisday 1709.

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It's #JaneAusten 's birthday! Born #onthisday 1775 the great novelist saw her first novel, #SenseandSensibility published 36 years later. Thought we'd celebrate by settling down for the weekend with a few of these Johnson-edited 1890s JM Dent editions. Feet up, and we're off!

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7 years

Happy Birthday to the book that encapsulates Xmas! "A Christmas Carol" first published #OTD 1843 (2yrs after #Dickens joined @TheLondonLib !)

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