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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          119011901Irna Phillips, American scriptwriter, is born 18041804George Sand is born 219611961Ernest Hemingway dies
318831883Franz Kafka is born 419311931James Joyce marries 18621862Lewis Carroll tells the Alice story for the first time 519111911L.M. Montgomery marries 618931893Guy de Maupassant dies 719011901Johanna Spyri dies 19301930Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies 18811881First publication of Pinocchio 818221822Percy Bysshe Shelley dies 917351735Samuel Johnson marries
1018711871Marcel Proust is born 1118991899E.B. White is born 1218171817Henry David Thoreau is born 1319141914D.H. Lawrence marries Frieda Weekley 1419461946Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care is published 1519761976Paul Gallico dies 1619271927Theodor Geisel publishes his first cartoon
1718141814Publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis 1818171817Jane Austen dies 1918691869George Eliot commences work on Middlemarch 2019231923Edward, Prince of Wales, lunches with Thomas Hardy 2118991899Ernest Hemingway is born 17961796Robert Burns dies 2218991899Kenneth Grahame marries Elspeth Thomson 2319961996Jessica Mitford dies
2418021802Alexandre Dumas is born 2518341834Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies 2618751875Antonio Machado, Spanish poet, is born 18561856George Bernard Shaw is born 2718701870Hilaire Belloc is born 2818141814Percy Bysshe Shelley elopes with Mary Godwin 18661866Beatrix Potter is born 2919541954First volume of Lord of the Rings is published 3019351935Penguin books first published 18181818Emily Brontë is born
3119651965J.K. Rowling is born