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TODAY: In 1828, poet, painter, and translator Dante Gabriel Rossetti is born.

“The waxing and waning fortunes of languages are inevitably historical and political questions, and these questions are likewise delirium-inducing if we sit with them honestly.” The benefits of being a polyglot (as a fiction writer). | Lit Hub Craft

Lori Carlson-Hijuelos honors the legacy of her late husband, Pulitzer Prize-winner Oscar Hijuelos . | Lit Hub Memoir

How members of the Brontë family confronted and worked with grief over the loss of their brother. | Lit Hub Biography

Henry Snow chronicles the history of relations between managers and workers : “As much as possible, workers were meant to be mere appendages of decision-making managers, components of capital’s machinery.” | Lit Hub History

Hannah Thurman, author of Mercy Hill , talks to Jane Ciabattari about researching mental hospitals and starting a book with the action.…