Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Marilyn Butler

Born: February 11, 1937
Died: March 11, 2014 (aged 77)
Bio: Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler was a British literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004.
Known for:
- Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975)
- Jane Austen (2007)
- Maria Edgeworth (1972)