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
Vikram Seth 20 June 1952: Vikram Seth is born. read more ...
Today
Jean-Paul Sartre & books 21 June 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
Henry Rider Haggard & King Solomon's Mines 22 June 1856: Henry Rider Haggard is born. read more ...
What happened this month?
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            118191819First English language vampire story is published
218051805Hans Christian Andersen is born 319201920F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry 418281828Margaret Oliphant is born 517651765Edward Young dies 618431843William Wordsworth is appointed Poet Laureate 717701770William Wordsworth is born 819581958Ethel Turner dies
919631963Where the Wild Things Are is published 1019251925The Great Gatsby is published 17101710First copyright statute established 1119141914“Not bloody likely!” 1218571857Madame Bovary is published 1319391939Seamus Heaney is born 1418411841First detective story is published 1517551755Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language
1618161816Lord Byron dissolves his marriage 1718831883Karen Blixen is born 1818391839Henry Kendall is born 1919891989Daphne du Maurier dies 2016111611First performance of Macbeth (perhaps) 2118161816Charlotte Brontë is born 2217071707Henry Fielding is born 18961896Ethel Turner marries
2316161616William Shakespeare dies 2418151815Anthony Trollope is born 2517191719Robinson Crusoe is published 2618981898Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, is born 2716671667John Milton sells the rights to Paradise Lost 2819261926Harper Lee is born 2918521852Roget’s Thesaurus is first published
3018591859A Tale of Two Cities is published