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
12 May 1794: Caleb Williams is published. read more ...
Today
13 May 1907: Daphne du Maurier is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
14 May 1842: The Lady of Shalott is published. read more ...
What happened this month?
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118191819 First English language vampire story is published
| 218051805 Hans Christian Andersen is born
| 319201920 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry
| 418281828 Margaret Oliphant is born
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517651765 Edward Young dies
| 618431843 William Wordsworth is appointed Poet Laureate
| 717701770 William Wordsworth is born
| 819581958 Ethel Turner dies
| 919631963 Where the Wild Things Are is published
| 1019251925 The Great Gatsby is published
17101710 First copyright statute established
| 1119141914 “Not bloody likely!”
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1218571857 Madame Bovary is published
| 1319391939 Seamus Heaney is born
| 1418411841 First detective story is published
| 1517551755 Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language
| 1618161816 Lord Byron dissolves his marriage
| 1718831883 Karen Blixen is born
| 1818391839 Henry Kendall is born
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1919891989 Daphne du Maurier dies
| 2016111611 First performance of Macbeth (perhaps)
| 2118161816 Charlotte Brontë is born
| 2217071707 Henry Fielding is born
18961896 Ethel Turner marries
| 2316161616 William Shakespeare dies
| 2418151815 Anthony Trollope is born
| 2517191719 Robinson Crusoe is published
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2618981898 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, is born
| 2716671667 John Milton sells the rights to Paradise Lost
| 2819261926 Harper Lee is born
| 2918521852 Roget’s Thesaurus is first published
| 3018591859 A Tale of Two Cities is published
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