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Leaves of Grass 17 October 1879
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Little Big Man 24 June 1876
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Red Badge of Courage, The 12 April 1861
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Roswell, New Mexico 14 June 1947
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‘Rule Britannia’ 12 March 1710
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St Crispin’s Day 25 October 1415
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Shaw, Robert 29 July 1945
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Sherlock Holmes 4 May 1891
Sholokhov, Mikhail 10 December 1965
Shortest Way with the Dissenters, The 31 July 1703
Sidney, Sir Philip 22 September 1586
Sinclair, Upton 30 June 1906
Singularities 19 May 1676
Sister Carrie 8 November 1900
Slaughterhouse-Five 13 February 1945
Smith, George 4 December 1849
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Steamboat Willie 18 November 1928
Stein, Gertrude 7 March 1967
Steinbeck, John 15 April 1935; 5 October 1936
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Stevens, Wallace 6 June 1915
Stevenson, Robert Louis 23 August 1849
Stoker, Bram 6 November 1897
Stoppard, Tom 24 August 1966
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 20 March 1852
Strachey, Lytton 16 March 1916
‘Strange Meeting’ 30 July 1919
Stravinsky, Igor 18 May 1922; 14 December 1956
Streetcar Named Desire, A 3 December 1947
Strickland, Susanna 31 January 1831; 21 August 1832
Striphas, Ted 2 May 1966
‘Sunday Morning’ 6 June 1915
Swift, Jonathan 31 July 1703
Swinnerton, Frank 15 January 1972
Tarkington, Booth 24 December 1925
Tate, Allen 4 January 1965
Tate, Nahum 1 August 1715
Tay Bridge disaster 28 December 1879
Taylor, Sir Charles 28 July 1966
Taylor, Edward 28 November 1671
Taylor, Elizabeth 27 February 1972
Taylor, John 12 July 1977
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 3 June; 12 September 1908; 12 October 1892
Ternan, Ellen 9 June 1865
Thackeray, William Makepeace 15 June 1815; 2 August 1999; 28 August 1855; 4 December 1849
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 24 February 1809
Thomas, Brandon 11 October 1948
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