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“Her writings are a capital picture of real life, with all the little wheels and machinery laid bare like a patent clock. But she explains and fills out too much.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Jane Austen, 23 May 1839 #longfellow #janeausten

“People who can do these things must be dead to all sense of shame, and one cannot hope to produce any effect upon them. It is the worst case I have ever tried.” Justice Wills sentences Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor to two years’ hard labour for homosexual offences, 25 May 1895

“The ignorance of Lord Montgomery [of Alamein] really does astound me. He so brilliantly commanded so many men and obviously knows nothing about them. Such desperate prejudice is quite terrifying.” Noël Coward on a House of Lords debate on homosexuality, 16 May 1965

“As a lot was done with bottles at hand it must be put away and revised carefully when sober.” Jean Rhys finishes Part II of ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’. 27 May 1959 #jeanrhys

“You only live twice: once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face” Ian Fleming, born 28 May 1908 #ianfleming #JamesBond

“If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be.” T.H. White, born 29 May 1906 #thwhite

*“The fact is that one hasn’t a moment to oneself during domestic life in the country. Nature is too much for me altogether, either in the shape of weeds or children, and fills up all one’s spare time.” Vanessa Bell, born 30 May 1879 #vanessabell #bloomsbury

“Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through The apple orchard, is a tired plough-boy Calling the cows home.” John Masefield, born 1 June 1878 #johnmasefield #poem

“Plot might seem to be a matter of choice. It is not. The particular plot is something the novelist is driven to: it is what is left after the whittling-away of alternatives.” Elizabeth Bowen, born 7 June 1899 #elizabethbowen #writing

“As the processes of earth strip off the colour of the skin: take the brown hair and blue eye and leave me simpler than at birth, when hairless I came howling in as the moon entered the cold sky.” Keith Douglas, killed in action near St Pierre, Normandy, 9 June 1944

“Aunt Edna remains Aunt Edna, with only two basic demands of the theatre – first, that it excite her to laugh or to cry or to wonder what is going to happen next; second, that she can suspend her disbelief willingly and without effort.” Terence #Rattigan, born 10 June 1911

“Both together must have thought out some Hess-like mission & (what Debo calls) buggered off. I suppose if they were just bouncing about on some double bed they would have been found by now. Oh the fascination” Nancy Mitford on 'the Missing Diplomats', 11 June 1951 #guyburgess

“The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying ‘see what a nice person I am’.” Brigid Brophy, born 12 June 1929 #brigidbrophy #criticism

“The work of Miss Burney, the mother of English fiction, was not inspired by any single wish to redress a grievance: the richness of the human scene as Dr Burneys daughter had the chance of observing it provided a sufficient stimulus.” Virginia Woolf on Fanny Burney, b 13.6.1752

“I am a little bit of a woman, somewhat more than forty, about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff; never very much to look at in my best days, and looking like a used-up article now.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 14 June 1811 #harrietbeecherstowe

“The Wetherby Arms. A pub with singing and a piano and a violin, and an atmosphere ambiguous beyond conjecture. I got into long conversation with a young man with a sea-beaten face and eyes like a Fabergé hawk – jewel-light eyes of flashing blue.” James Pope-Hennessy, 16 6 1950

“I have lived in London ten years, and now, on a day like this, when I am very lonely and depressed, there is not one single house in which I should be welcome if I presented myself...” George Gissing, 17 June 1888 #georgegissing

“After leaving it there I found myself gloating over the opportunity which my 75 copies would offer me – of venting my spleen against various people by neglecting to present them with their expected copies.” Siegfried Sassoon delivers a book of poems to the printer, 19 June 1922

Join me and Simon Martin Pallant House Gallery on Thursday evening for a Pride evening discussing queer art and queer lives: pallant.org.uk/whats-on/talk-…

“Drinks at a gay pub called ‘Fitzroy’ [...] Charming. Full of sailors and queans with prying eyes and inquisitive nostrils – all searching for some new sensation – all empty vacuous faces devoid of anything save sexual appetites.” Kenneth Williams, 20 June 1952