On This Day

What happened on this day in literary history?

Literary History On This Day

Not a day goes by without something interesting happening in the world of books and writers. Here are some of the events that Susannah thinks are important.

Yesterday
JRR Tolkein & baby photo with his parents 3 January 1892: J.R.R. Tolkien is born. read more ...
Today
Jacob Grimm & Children and Household Tales 1812 4 January 1785: Jacob Grimm is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel 5 January 1883: Charles Tompson dies. read more ...
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      116601660Samuel Pepys records the first entry in his diary 220142014Elizabeth Jane Howard dies 318921892J.R.R. Tolkien is born 417851785Jacob Grimm is born
518831883Charles Tompson dies 618361836Harriet Beecher marries Rev. Calvin Stowe 719251925Gerald Durrell is born 818241824Wilkie Collins is born 917731773Cassandra Austen is born 19231923Katherine Mansfield dies 1018451845Robert Browning first wrote to Elizabeth Barrett 1119281928Thomas Hardy dies
1216281628Charles Perrault is born 1319411941James Joyce dies 1419141914Karen Dinesen marries Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke 1518461846Poor Folk is first published 1616051605Don Quixote is first published 1718201820Anne Brontë is born 1819881988Dewey Readmore Books is found
1918091809Edgar Allan Poe is born 2019001900R.D. Blackmore dies 2119501950George Orwell dies 2217881788George Gordon (Lord) Byron is born 2317891789John Cleland dies 2418701870Ethel Turner is born 2518741874William Somerset Maugham is born
2618911891Oscar Wilde’s The Duchess of Padua premieres 2718321832Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is born 2818131813Pride and Prejudice is published 18731873Colette is born 2918451845The Raven is published 3019951995Gerald Durrell dies 3119561956A.A. Milne dies  
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