Algernon Swinburne, poet, alcoholic and algolagniac
On this day in 1837 the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne was born. Swinburne was a well-born and clever young man who did well at Oxford... Read More
Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness novel
On this day in 1925 the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf was published. The action takes place in the course of a single June... Read More