On This Day

What happened on this day in literary history?

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
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 28th January 1813: Pride and Prejudice is published. read more ...
Collete c. 1896, & The Complete Claudine 28 January 1873: Colette is born. read more ...
Today
The Raven published in the New-York Mirror 29 January 1845: The Raven is published. read more ...
Tomorrow
Thomas Jefferson & Library of Congress c. 1853 30 January 1815: Thomas Jefferson sells his library. read more ...
Gerald Durrell Memorial, Jersey Zoo 30 January 1995: Gerald Durrell dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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        118791879E.M. Forster is born 16601660Samuel 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 919231923Katherine Mansfield dies 17731773Cassandra Austen is born 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
2517591759Robert Burns is born 18741874William Somerset Maugham is born 2618911891Oscar Wilde’s The Duchess of Padua premieres 2718321832Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is born 2818731873Colette is born 18131813Pride and Prejudice is published 2918451845The Raven is published 3018151815Thomas Jefferson sells his library 19951995Gerald Durrell dies 3119561956A.A. Milne dies