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 May 1842: The Lady of Shalott is published. read more ...
Today
15 May 1888: Louisa Lawson publishes The Dawn. read more ...
Tomorrow
16 May 1836: Edgar Allan Poe marries Virginia Clemm. read more ...
What happened this month?
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120052005 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is published
18821882 Henry Kendall dies
| 219241924 James Baldwin is born
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318611861 Great Expectations is completed
| 418751875 Hans Christian Andersen dies
| 518501850 Guy de Maupassant is born
| 618091809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born
| 717541754 Henry Fielding leaves England to improve his health
| 818961896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is born
| 918991899 P.L. Travers is born
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1019121912 Virginia Woolf marries
| 1118971897 Enid Blyton is born
| 1219201920 Louisa Lawson dies
| 1319461946 H.G. Wells dies
| 1418611861 John Galsworthy is born
| 1517711771 Walter Scott is born
| 1619021902 Georgette Heyer is born
18651865 Dame Mary Gilmore is born
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1719451945 Animal Farm is published
| 1818501850 Honoré de Balzac dies
| 1919301930 Frank McCourt is born
| 2018361836 William Makepeace Thackeray marries
| 2119201920 Christopher Robin Milne is born
| 2219201920 Ray Bradbury is born
| 2319491949 Helen Churchill Candee dies
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2414551455 First printing of the Gutenberg Bible
| 2518851885 Laura Ingalls marries Almanzo Wilder
| 2618741874 Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is born
| 2719551955 The Guinness Book of Records is published
| 2818111811 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Westbrook marry
| 2916321632 John Locke is born
| 3020132013 Seamus Heaney dies
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3118661866 Elizabeth von Arnim is born
16881688 John Bunyan dies
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