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
6 July 1893: Guy de Maupassant dies. read more ...
Today
7 July 1881: First publication of Pinocchio. read more ...
7 July 1901: Johanna Spyri dies. read more ...
7 July 1930: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies. read more ...
Tomorrow
8 July 1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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118521852 The Bros Grimm publish the first part of a dictionary
19661966 Death of a Naturalist is first published
| 218591859 Jerome K. Jerome is born
| 319181918 Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry marry
| 419391939 Finnegans Wake is published
| 518151815 John Keats’ first poem is published
| 617571757 Christopher Smart is confined to a lunatic asylum
| 716631663 The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opened
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820122012 Maurice Sendak dies
| 918141814 Mansfield Park is published
| 1019271927 Ernest Hemingway weds Pauline Pfeiffer
| 1119231923 Lord Peter Wimsey first appears
| 1217941794 Caleb Williams is published
| 1319071907 Daphne du Maurier is born
| 1418421842 The Lady of Shalott is published
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1518881888 Louisa Lawson publishes The Dawn
| 1618361836 Edgar Allan Poe marries Virginia Clemm
| 1719001900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published
| 1810481048 Omar Khayyam is born
| 1917951795 James Boswell dies
| 2018821882 Sigrid Undset is born
| 2119081908 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde premieres
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2218591859 Arthur Conan Doyle is born
| 2320212021 Eric Carle dies
| 2418301830 Mary Had a Little Lamb is published
| 2517261726 World’s first lending library opened
| 2618971897 Dracula is published
| 2719221922 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is published
| 2818491849 Anne Brontë dies
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2918841884 Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd
| 3015931593 Christopher Marlowe is killed
| 3116691669 Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his diary
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