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
15 May 1888: Louisa Lawson publishes The Dawn. read more ...
Today
16 May 1836: Edgar Allan Poe marries Virginia Clemm. read more ...
Tomorrow
17 May 1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published. read more ...
What happened this month?
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119011901 Irna Phillips, American scriptwriter, is born
18041804 George Sand is born
| 219611961 Ernest Hemingway dies
| 318831883 Franz Kafka is born
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419311931 James Joyce marries
18621862 Lewis Carroll tells the Alice story for the first time
| 519111911 L.M. Montgomery marries
| 618931893 Guy de Maupassant dies
| 719011901 Johanna Spyri dies
19301930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies
18811881 First publication of Pinocchio
| 818221822 Percy Bysshe Shelley dies
| 917351735 Samuel Johnson marries
| 1018711871 Marcel Proust is born
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1118991899 E.B. White is born
| 1218171817 Henry David Thoreau is born
| 1319141914 D.H. Lawrence marries Frieda Weekley
| 1419461946 Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care is published
| 1519761976 Paul Gallico dies
| 1619271927 Theodor Geisel publishes his first cartoon
| 1718141814 Publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis
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1818171817 Jane Austen dies
| 1918691869 George Eliot commences work on Middlemarch
| 2019231923 Edward, Prince of Wales, lunches with Thomas Hardy
| 2118991899 Ernest Hemingway is born
17961796 Robert Burns dies
| 2218991899 Kenneth Grahame marries Elspeth Thomson
| 2319961996 Jessica Mitford dies
| 2418021802 Alexandre Dumas is born
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2518341834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies
| 2618561856 George Bernard Shaw is born
| 2718701870 Hilaire Belloc is born
| 2818141814 Percy Bysshe Shelley elopes with Mary Godwin
18661866 Beatrix Potter is born
| 2919541954 First volume of Lord of the Rings is published
| 3019351935 Penguin books first published
18181818 Emily Brontë is born
| 3119651965 J.K. Rowling is born
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