Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Martina Navratilova was the only WTA player to simultaneously win her first Grand Slam and become number one for the first time

Two players in their first Grand Slam final playing to be number one for the first time: apparently a first-time scenario

Making a man queen – "Can a man be Chancellor?"

Remembering a chart of the succession of English and British monarchs from my time in the UK in 1973-74

"It advertised them both": Free creative work in "Of Human Bondage"

Louisa Gradgrind Bounderby in "Hard Times" as Dickens's first strong woman who does not end tragically