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Sep 21, 2026
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Emily Dickinson, around 1862. A poem she sewed into a little booklet and kept private.
Sep 19, 2026
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850. The first sonnet she hid in a drawer.
Sep 17, 2026
Christina Rossetti, 1862. She asked for a throne.
Sep 14, 2026
Chekhov, 1899. Two people who found the real thing after they had stopped expecting it.
Sep 12, 2026
Emily Brontë, 1847. A woman in a kitchen, saying the thing she was not supposed to say.
Sep 10, 2026
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George Eliot wrote her in 1871. She had every reason to stay down. She opened the curtains anyway.
