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.
Peter Quennell

Born: March 9, 1905
Died: October 27, 1993 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Peter Courtney Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.
Known for:
- Who's who in Shakespeare (1973)
- Byron; the years of fame (1935)
- Victorian panorama (1937)
- Byron in Italy (1941)