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#Didyouknow that #AChristmasCarol (published on 19 December 1843) sold out its first edition by Christmas Eve? That’s only four days to sell out 6,000 copies! The popularity led to it being reprinted 13 times within the year.
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#OnThis Day in 1961 comedian and writer, Meera Syal was born. Her semi-autobiographical debut, 'Anita and Me', was published in 1996, sold in vast numbers and went on to become a play, a movie and a #GCSE set text.
“Life isn't all haha hehe.”
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#DidYouKnow that Jules Verne published a book a year for over 40 years? On many occasions he even published two books in the same year.
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#DidYouKnow that today in 1843 #AChristmasCarol was published? Dickens paid for the publishing of the classic Christmas ghost story himself. There were a few stumbling blocks, and the first printing had olive endpapers which Dickens hated.
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#DidYouKnow that #Frankenstein was written for a competition between Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori? Byron proposed the competition for the scariest story during a rainy holiday in Switzerland. Of course Mary’s gruesome tale won.
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#OnThisDay in 1911, #LordoftheFlies author and Nobel prize winner, William Golding was born in Newquay. His childhood home was named Karenza, meaning ‘love’ in Cornish, and Cornwall remained one of his favourite places.
"The greatest ideas are the simplest."
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#DidYouKnow that William Thackeray found #JaneEyre so moving that he burst into tears in front of his butler? Thackeray had been sent an advance copy of the novel and enjoyed it so much that he spent the whole day reading it.
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#OnThisDay in 1960, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was published. Loosely based on Harper Lee’s childhood experiences, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and has gone on to sell over 40 million copies.
"Things are always better in the morning."
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#OnThis Day in 1961 comedian and writer, Meera Syal was born. Her semi-autobiographical debut, 'Anita and Me', was published in 1996, sold in vast numbers and went on to become a play, a movie and a #GCSE set text.
“Life isn't all haha hehe.”
#YorkNotes #MeeraSyal #AnitaAndMe
Think you know A Christmas Carol? 🎄👻
There's so much more to this classic Christmas tale than Scrooge, Tiny Tim, a few ghosts and "Bah! Humbug". And there's so many reasons to read and study it.
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#DidYouKnow that the original manuscript for #OfMiceandMen was eaten by John Steinbeck’s dog? Steinbeck later said of the incident “I was pretty mad, but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically”.
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#DidYouKnow that #Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy? At approximately 2,500 lines it is about 90 minutes shorter than #Hamlet, which is both his longest tragedy and his longest play. Is Macbeth’s short length one reason why it’s so often performed?
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#DidYouKnow that when the Italian writer Umberto Eco first visited Paris, he only walked down streets that had survived from the Middle Ages? He was studying medieval history at the time and was obsessed with the subject.
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Think you know A Christmas Carol? 🎄👻
There's so much more to this classic Christmas tale than Scrooge, Tiny Tim, a few ghosts and "Bah! Humbug". And there's so many reasons to read and study it.
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Read our interview with the award-winning poet and teacher @KateClanchy1 where we discuss sharing her students' poetry online, her highlights as a teacher and how to prepare for the #unseenpoetry exam.
https://t.co/T8Y7dSNvz7
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I'm delighted with the success of my York Notes Rapid Revision guide for AQA's English Language paper 1. Perhaps it's helped all those locked down students in these troubled times. #YorkNotes #GCSE #AQA #Revision #RapidRevision #EnglishLanguage See it on https://t.co/fGwyPEOrmQ
#OnThisDay in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published. Loosely based on Harper Lee’s childhood experiences, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and has gone on to sell over 40 million copies.
"Things are always better in the morning."
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#OnThisDay in 1870, Charles Dickens died aged 58. Highly regarded as one of the world’s greatest novelists, he created many much-loved characters and left his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, half written.
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
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Help your students develop the ability to understand, contextualise and weave key quotations seamlessly into essays and answers whilst they #learnathome.
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