TODAY: In 1896, Marnie Dickens, seen here with dad Charles and sister Kate, dies. She wrote a book of reminiscences about her father, and with her aunt, Georgina Hogarth, edited the first collection of his letters.

Also on Lit Hub: On the uncomfortable contradictions of “Amazing Grace,” which was written by a slave trader • A poem by Jana Prikryl from her collection No Matter • Read an excerpt from Natalia Ginzburg’s novel Happiness, as Such (tr. Minna Zallman Proctor).

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