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"There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."
Torvald Helmer, Act I

in 1879.

The first production of Henrik Ibsen's controversial "modern drama" A Doll's House takes place at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, after publication there on December 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House

A Doll's House at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542

Adeleide Johannessen in character as Nora, from a cigarette card of c. 1880 – c. 1882. Adeleide Johannessen is captured mid-action, holding a tambourine in her raised hand, evoking an energetic or defiant moment from her performance as Nora. Her body language is dynamic, and her intense facial expression reflects the emotional depth and complexity of Nora's character, perhaps hinting at her journey of self-discovery and rebellion. Johannessen wears a full-length Victorian-era dress, with detailed pleating, fitted bodice, and layered skirts that cinch at the waist with a decorative belt.

in 1904.

The first of Virginia Woolf's published writings, "Haworth, November 1904", an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, appears anonymously in a women's supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. (A book review written later has appeared in the same journal a week earlier.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haworth

Books by Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

This is the draft of the essay, which appeared in The Guardian in December 1904. Woolf opens by briefly questioning the legitimacy of literary tourism, and decides that her visit to Haworth is acceptable because it added to her understanding of the Brontës’ books. After walking the West Yorkshire moors in the bleak November weather and spending time in the family’s home and church, Woolf concludes that “however harsh the struggle, Emily, and Charlotte above all, fought to victory.” via @NYPL https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/section-1-early-years/item/13112#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHaworth%3A%20November%2C%201904%E2%80%9C%20essay%20draft&text=Woolf's%20first%20published%20essay%20is,The%20Guardian%20in%20December%201904.

" I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
Have His Carcase

English author, poet, and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers died in 1957. Sayers is most famous for her detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocratic amateur sleuth. She wrote several plays, including The Zeal of Thy House and The Man Born to Be King. Sayers also translated major works, notably Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Dorothy L. Sayers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45867

Dorothy L. Sayers – English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957) uncredited; published by Boni and Liveright in connexion with her 1925 release Whose Body - Publicity photo from her American publishers; copy at the National Portrait Gallery. The focus is on Sayers' upper torso and face, with a neutral or slightly blurred background that ensures the viewer’s attention is drawn entirely to her.

in 1893.

Establishment, in Yorkshire (England), of the Brontë Society, possibly the oldest literary society of this nature, dedicated to establishing what will become the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bront%C3%AB_Parsonage_Museum

Emily Brontë's diary paper for June 26, 1837, showing herself and Anne working at the dining room table. Emily Brontë - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/emily-brontes-diary-1837

14 Dec 1914 Gen Silva Renard, the officer responsible for Chile's worst massacre was stabbed by Spanish anarchist, Antonio Ramón Ramón. Silva's troops killed up to 3500 people in 1907, including Ramón's brother. He survived with permanent injuries https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8554/roberto-silva-renard-attentat

Antonio Ramón Ramón

Robert Louis Stevenson died , 3 December, 1894. He is buried on Mt Vaea, on the island of Upolu in Samoa 🇼🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📷Thomas Andrew (1855–1939): Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1894 / Le maliu o Tusitala i le tausaga 1894

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burial_and_grave_of_Robert_Louis_Stevenson_in_Samoa,_1894.jpg

A black-and-white photograph, showing the burial of Robert Louis Stevenson. About thirty or forty people – a few are of European origin but most are Samoan – stand solemnly in a thickly wooded area around what must be Stevenson's coffin, draped in cloth and leaves.

, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a sensible duffle coat given how cold it must have been out there.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 2010s. She is a white woman with dark grey hair.

Leo Tolstoy died in 1910.

So here's the 1961 BBC adaptation of Anna Karenina, with Claire Bloom as Anna and Sean Connery as Vronsky.

It compresses the novel a bit too much, and shows its age in places, but Bloom is wonderful in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nU2jz5o4wo

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