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By Edward Hopper (1882-1967), via Wikimedia Commons. Photo © JJonahJackalope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
‘Alpha of the Plough’ hoped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not treat his old friends as he treated his favourite books.
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By an anonymous artist, via the Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.
By James Peale (1749–1831), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Anne Thackeray saw something satisfying in the self-control of Anne Elliot.
By Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.
By Dmitry Levitzky (1735-1822), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.
By Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.