Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Blanche Willis Howard

Born: July 21, 1847
Died: October 7, 1898 (aged 51)
Bio: Blanche Willis Howard was a best-selling American novelist who lived most of her productive years in southern Germany.
Known for:
- Tony, the maid (1887)
- Guenn; a wave on the Breton coast (1883)
- A fellowe and his wife (1892)
- Aunt Serena (1881)