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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118561856 Lewis Carroll first appeared
| 219091909 Katherine Mansfield marries (briefly)
| 317561756 William Godwin is born
| 419221922 The Beautiful and Damned is published
| 518391839 Charlotte Brontë declines a marriage proposal
| 618881888 Louisa May Alcott dies
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719711971 Stevie Smith dies
| 818501850 Kenneth Grahame is born
| 918921892 Vita Sackville-West is born
| 1019481948 Zelda Fitzgerald dies
| 1117441744 Sotheby’s holds its first auction of books
| 1219571957 The Cat in the Hat is first published
| 1313951395 John Barbour dies
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1418361836 Isabella Beeton is born
| 1518521852 Lady Gregory is born
| 1618501850 The Scarlet Letter is published
| 1717771777 Patrick Brontë is born
| 1817681768 Laurence Sterne dies
| 1919501950 Edgar Rice Burroughs dies
| 2018521852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
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2119991999 First World Poetry Day
| 2218321832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies
| 2318391839 First recorded use of “OK”
| 2418821882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies
| 2518111811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford University
| 2619201920 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first book is published
| 2719311931 Arnold Bennett dies
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2817541754 Henry Fielding leaves England to improve his health
17591759 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman begins serialisation
19411941 Virginia Woolf dies by suicide
| 2917971797 Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin marry
| 3018501850 Household Words is launched
| 3118551855 Charlotte Brontë dies
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