Britain’s appetite for books increases
London, January 11th, 1926, A.P. The average Briton’s appetite for reading has grown remarkably, or authors have been putting in some overtime. More books were printed during 1925 than in any previous year in the history of British book production. The total published was thirteen thousand, two hundred eight, or four hundred ninety-six more than in 1924.
Fiction apparently holds first place in public taste, for two thousand, seven hundred sixty-nine volumes of it were published last year. Religious books came second.
Books First Published in 1926:
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9780156628709
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9781400034215
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9780062986443
Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Woodhouse https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9781959891406
Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9781773236346
Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9781950330720
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole https://bookshop.org/a/118698/9789361471872
French Republican Calendar Day Name (22 Nivôse): Salt
Bummer January 11
January 11, 1879: The Birmingham Central Library in England catches fire and loses about 49,000 of its 50,000 books and other circulating materials.
January 11, 1979: Louisiana State University student Bruce Wiseman is struck by a car and killed while being guided, blindfolded, across a street by members of the Theta Xi fraternity as part of a hazing ritual. To their credit, the fraternity members did attempt to get Wiseman out of harm’s way in time. Two others suffer broken bones.
January 11, 2020: Officials in Wuhan, China, announce the first recorded human death from the COVID-19 virus.
January 11, 2024: Ballet dancer Órla Baxendale, age 25, dies of a severe allergic reaction. Baxendale eats a vanilla Florentine cookie made by the Cookies United company and sold at a Stew Leonard’s grocery store. The box the cookies came in didn’t list peanuts as an ingredient. Baxendale was allergic to nuts and carried an Epipen in case of allergic reaction. Sadly, in this case, even though she receives the epinephrine injection in time, her body’s reaction is too severe for this to work.
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