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Lit Hub Daily: July 31, 2026
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TODAY: In 1703, Daniel Defoe is sentenced to humiliation in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet. According to legend, the crowd pelts him with flowers.

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“What if I admitted to myself that my claims on middle class respectability were tenuous at best, and inside me was the scared little girl terrified of losing the roof above her

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