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
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen 11 November 1843: The Ugly Duckling is first published. read more ...
Today
John Milton & The Milton Window at St Margarets 12 November 1656: John Milton marries for the second time. read more ...
Tomorrow
Robert Louis Stevenson as a young child, and at age 10, with his father 13 November 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson is born. read more ...
Mary Poppins and The Match Man 13 November 1926: Mary Poppins first appears in print. read more ...
What happened this month?
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    120052005The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is published 18821882Henry Kendall dies 219241924James Baldwin is born 318611861Great Expectations is completed 418751875Hans Christian Andersen dies 518501850Guy de Maupassant is born
618091809Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born 717541754Henry Fielding leaves England to improve his health 818961896Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is born 918991899P.L. Travers is born 1019121912Virginia Woolf marries 1120032003Diana Mitford dies 18971897Enid Blyton is born 1219201920Louisa Lawson dies
1319461946H.G. Wells dies 1418611861John Galsworthy is born 1517711771Walter Scott is born 1619021902Georgette Heyer is born 18651865Dame Mary Gilmore is born 1719451945Animal Farm is published 1818501850Honoré de Balzac dies 1919301930Frank McCourt is born
2018361836William Makepeace Thackeray marries 2119201920Christopher Robin Milne is born 2219201920Ray Bradbury is born 2319491949Helen Churchill Candee dies 2414551455First printing of the Gutenberg Bible 2518851885Laura Ingalls marries Almanzo Wilder 2618741874Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is born
2719551955The Guinness Book of Records is published 2818111811Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Westbrook marry 2916321632John Locke is born 3020132013Seamus Heaney dies 3118661866Elizabeth von Arnim is born 16881688John Bunyan dies