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
27 July 1870: Hilaire Belloc is born. read more ...
Today
28 July 1814: Percy Bysshe Shelley elopes with Mary Godwin. read more ...
28 July 1866: Beatrix Potter is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
29 July 1954: J.R.R. Tolkien published the first volume of the Lord of the Rings series. read more ...
What happened this month?
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118791879 E.M. Forster is born
16601660 Samuel Pepys records the first entry in his diary
| 220142014 Elizabeth Jane Howard dies
| 318921892 J.R.R. Tolkien is born
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417851785 Jacob Grimm is born
| 518831883 Charles Tompson dies
| 618361836 Harriet Beecher marries Rev. Calvin Stowe
| 719251925 Gerald Durrell is born
| 818241824 Wilkie Collins is born
| 919231923 Katherine Mansfield dies
17731773 Cassandra Austen is born
| 1018451845 Robert Browning first wrote to Elizabeth Barrett
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1119281928 Thomas Hardy dies
| 1216281628 Charles Perrault is born
| 1319411941 James Joyce dies
| 1419141914 Karen Dinesen marries Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
| 1518461846 Poor Folk is first published
| 1616051605 Don Quixote is first published
| 1718201820 Anne Brontë is born
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1819881988 Dewey Readmore Books is found
| 1918091809 Edgar Allan Poe is born
| 2019001900 R.D. Blackmore dies
| 2119501950 George Orwell dies
| 2217881788 George Gordon (Lord) Byron is born
| 2317891789 John Cleland dies
| 2418701870 Ethel Turner is born
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2517591759 Robert Burns is born
18741874 William Somerset Maugham is born
| 2618911891 Oscar Wilde’s The Duchess of Padua premieres
| 2718321832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is born
| 2818731873 Colette is born
18131813 Pride and Prejudice is published
| 2918451845 The Raven is published
| 3018151815 Thomas Jefferson sells his library
19951995 Gerald Durrell dies
| 3119561956 A.A. Milne dies
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