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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118781878 John Masefield is born
| 218401840 Thomas Hardy is born
| 319691969 The Very Hungry Caterpillar is published
| 419131913 A.A. Milne marries
| 518511851 First instalment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is serialised
19491949 Noddy first appears
18331833 Ada, Countess of Lovelace, meets Charles Babbage
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619241924 A Passage to India is published
| 718621862 Les Miserables is published in English
18671867 Henry Lawson is born
| 818761876 George Sand dies
18981898 George Bernard Shaw marries
19491949 Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
| 918701870 Charles Dickens dies
| 1019281928 Maurice Sendak is born
| 1118441844 Anthony Trollope marries
| 1219421942 Anne Frank receives a birthday present
18271827 Johanna Spyri is born
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1319081908 Anne of Green Gables is published
18501850 Alfred, Lord Tennyson marries
| 1419361936 Gilbert Keith Chesterton dies
18111811 Harriet Beecher Stowe is born
| 1519141914 Dubliners is published
| 1619041904 The First Bloomsday
18161816 Lord Byron proposes a literary challenge
| 1719101910 Diana Mitford is born
| 1817461746 Samuel Johnson agrees to compile a dictionary
| 1919471947 Salman Rushdie is born
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2019491949 Vikram Seth is born
| 2119051905 Jean-Paul Sartre is born
| 2218561856 Henry Rider Haggard is born
| 2318191819 Rip van Winkle is published
| 2418421842 Ambrose Bierce is born
| 2519031903 George Orwell is born
| 2619971997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is first published
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2718931893 Happy Birthday to You is published
| 2817121712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born
| 2916131613 The Globe Theatre is destroyed
| 3019731973 Nancy Mitford dies
19361936 Gone With the Wind is first published
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