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
Ernest Hemingway in 1953 2 July 1961: Ernest Hemingway dies. read more ...
Today
Franz Kafka 3 July 1883: Franz Kafka is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll 4 July 1862: Lewis Carroll tells the Alice story for the first time. read more ...
James Joyce marries 4 July 1931: James Joyce marries. 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