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   Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 19:28:08 JST Project Gutenberg

   "I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man."
   Epoch 2, Frederick Fairlie

   #OTD in 1860.

   Wilkie Collins' sensation novel The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, completes its serialization in All the Year Round. It appears in book form in London around August 15.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)#

   Original file available here:
   https://www.djo.org.uk/all-the-year-round/volume-iii/page-1.html

   The Woman in White at PG:
   https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/583

   #books #literature

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 19:28:08 JST Antiqueight

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     @gutenberg_org what does "with which is incorporated Household Words" mean???

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     Gerard Cunningham ✒️ (faduda@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 19:52:51 JST Gerard Cunningham ✒️

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     • Antiqueight

     @Antiqueight @gutenberg_org
     Household Words would have been another publication, which merged/was taken over

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 19:58:04 JST Antiqueight

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     • Gerard Cunningham ✒️

     @faduda @gutenberg_org ah!! I was puzzled by it as words in English not a name....