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January 11, 2007 – JK Rowling completed work on her final 7th Harry Potter books (room 552) of the Bamoral Hotel in Edinburgh. Rowling found working at her home noisy & distracting, so she lived in the hotel for 6 months as she wrote Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in secret

January 13, 1695 – Irish writer and master satirist Jonathan Swift was ordained as an Anglican priest. He became a renowned for his satirical works such as Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, and the essay A Modest Proposal, published in 1729.

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Robert Seymour, The March of Intellect (London, 1828)

This little guy is from the Luttrell Psalter. Perhaps an owl for the face/head and some kind of hoofed animal for the feet and tail, not sure what kind of animal the red and white spotted body is from .The grotesque’s hood is definitely a very human element.

Jonah and the whale, The St Omer Psalter , Date: c. 1330-1340

King pooping on two grotesques heads. The grotesques are kissing and don’t seem to be noticing what the king is doing. Is it possible this image is a metaphor for oppressive rulers? Part of the famous Lancelot-Grail (Prose Vulgate Cycle) of Arthurian romance, 1316 France

February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the joint congressional resolution proposing the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery . The final, ratified amendment was not officially adopted , February 1st is commemorated annually in the U.S. as National Freedom day.

February 17, 1929 – Jewish-American author Chaim Potok was born in the Bronx. Potok worked as a professor and rabbi and his first novel The Chosen was on The New York Times‘ bestseller list for 39 weeks.

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February 18, 1931 - American author Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and in 2012 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

March 9, 1892 – British author and poet Vita Sackville-West, later known as Lady Nicholson, was born in Kent. Sackville-West wrote numerous poem collections and 13 novels, but she is better remembered as a close friend and later lover of Virginia Woolf.⁣