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
14 February 1895: Oscar Wilde’s final play is first staged. read more ...
Today
15 February 1867: Fyodor Dostoyevsky marries for the 2nd time. read more ...
Tomorrow
16 February 1907: Giosuè Carducci dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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119181918 Muriel Spark is born
| 219221922 Ulysses is published in full
| 318631863 Mark Twain is created
| 419001900 Jacques Prévert is born
| 519411941 Banjo Paterson dies
| 618651865 Isabella Beeton dies
| 718121812 Charles Dickens is born
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818191819 John Ruskin is born
| 919441944 Alice Walker is born
| 1019141914 Thomas Hardy marries for the second time
| 1119781978 China lifts a ban on books
| 1218091809 Charles Darwin is born
| 1319241924 Edward Bear makes his first appearance
| 1418951895 Oscar Wilde’s final play is first staged
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1518671867 Fyodor Dostoyevsky marries for the 2nd time
| 1619071907 Giosuè Carducci dies
| 1718641864 AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson is born
| 1816781678 The Pilgrim’s Progress is first published
| 1918901890 Robert Louis Stevenson writes a letter from Sydney
20162016 Harper Lee dies
| 2018771877 R.L. Stevenson’s first published work of fiction appears
| 2119071907 W.H. Auden is born
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2219731973 Charlotte’s Web animated film premiers
| 2316331633 Samuel Pepys is born
| 2417861786 Wilhelm Grimm is born
| 2519831983 Tennessee Williams dies
| 2618021802 Victor Hugo is born
| 2716931693 The first women’s magazine is published
| 2818201820 Sir John Tenniel is born
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