by Cassandra Little | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. Jane Austen, ‘Mansfield Park’ (1814) Jane Austen, b. December 16, 1775, d. July 18, 1817 Born 250 years ago today, Jane Austen was an English writer who first presented the novel with ordinary...
by Cassandra Little | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
‘If we cross the Irwell to Salford, we find. . . one large working men’s quarter, penetrated by a single wide avenue. . . All Salford is built in courts or narrow lanes, so narrow, that they remind me of the narrowest I have ever seen, the little lanes of Genoa....
by Cassandra Little | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow, no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life, for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something...
by Cassandra Little | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
‘Alright then, I’ll go to hell.’ Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck has been made to believe it would be sinful to help his friend Jim, who is as you likely know, a runaway slave. In this chapter, Huck finds his personal moral compass and...
by Cassandra Little | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
December 1, 1887 Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance in print in ‘A Study in Scarlet’. or did he? There are a various Internet sites that say that Beeton’s Christmas Annual, which first published A Study in Scarlet, printed the story on December 1, 1887....
by Cassandra Little | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
Jonathan Swift, b. November 30, 1667, d. October 19, 1745 Books, the children of the brain. A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings (1704) Irish satirist and clergyman. Swift grew up under the care of his uncle and received a Bachelor’s degree from Trinity College. He was...
