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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118871887 Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first appear
| 218021802 Jane Austen receives a proposal
| 318941894 Robert Louis Stevenson dies
| 418781878 Bram Stoker marries
| 518701870 Alexandre Dumas dies
| 618821882 Anthony Trollope dies
19331933 Obscenity ban on Ulysses is lifted
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719951995 Seamus Heaney is awarded the Nobel Prize
| 819001900 Margaret Mitchell is born
| 918161816 Harriet Westbrook Shelley dies
18541854 The Charge of the Light Brigade is published
| 1018841884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published
17681768 The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published
| 1117301730 Voltaire’s tragedy Brutus premieres
| 1218891889 Robert Browning dies
| 1317841784 Samuel Johnson dies
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1418951895 On Our Selection first published
| 1519321932 Edna O’Brien is born
| 1619011901 The Tale of Peter Rabbit is first published
17751775 Jane Austen is born
| 1718731873 Ford Madox Ford is born
| 1818921892 Yakov Polonsky is born
| 1918431843 A Christmas Carol is published
| 2018171817 Northanger Abbey is published
18121812 Grimm’s Fairy Tales is first published
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2119401940 F. Scott Fitzgerald dies
| 2218801880 George Eliot dies
| 2318151815 Emma is published
18231823 'Twas the night before Christmas …
| 2418631863 William Makepeace Thackeray dies
| 2519391939 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer appears
17711771 Dorothy Wordsworth is born
| 2616061606 King Lear is first performed
| 2718961896 Carl Zuckmayer is born
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2818791879 The Tay Bridge in Scotland collapses
| 2918121812 Maria Branwell marries Patrick Brontë
| 3018651865 Rudyard Kipling is born
| 3117961796 Auld Lang Syne
18551855 Giovanni Pascoli is born
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