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
Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom's Cabin 14 June 1811: Harriet Beecher is born. read more ...
G. K. Chesterton at work 14 June 1936: Gilbert Keith Chesterton dies. read more ...
Today
Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914 15 June 1914: Dubliners is published. read more ...
Tomorrow
The Villa-Diodati 16 June 1816: Lord Byron proposes a literary challenge. read more ...
Bloomsday at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin 16 June 1904: The First Bloomsday. read more ...
What happened this month?
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  118481848WH Smith opens first railway bookstall 219501950George Bernard Shaw dies 319011901André Malraux, French novelist, is born 418631863William Makepeace Thackeray dies 516071607Anna Maria van Schurman is born 615581558Thomas Kyd is baptised
719131913Albert Camus is born 816021602The Bodleian Library in Oxford is opened 920042004Stieg Larsson dies 10 1118431843The Ugly Duckling is first published 12 1318501850Robert Louis Stevenson is born
1419071907Astrid Lindgren is born 1518691869English poet Charlotte Mew is born 16 17 1818651865Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published 1919191919Shakespeare and Company opens 2019101910Leo Tolstoy dies
2117481748One of the most banned books in history is published 2218191819Mary Ann Evans is born 2319901990Roald Dahl dies 2419131913Swann’s Way is published 25 2617311731William Cowper is born 2715821582William Shakespeare marries
2817571757William Blake is born 2918321832Louisa May Alcott is born 3019001900Oscar Wilde dies