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 Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse 14 May 1842: The Lady of Shalott is published. read more ...
Today
Front cover of the first issue of The Dawn published by Louisa Lawson 15 May 1888: Louisa Lawson publishes The Dawn. read more ...
Tomorrow
Edgar Allan Poe & his wife, Virginia Clemm Poe 16 May 1836: Edgar Allan Poe marries Virginia Clemm. read more ...
What happened this month?
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      119421942First Little Golden Books published 219501950Peanuts first appears 318671867Anthony Trollope resigns from his day job to write full-time 417981798The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is first published 17951795Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sarah Fricker marry
519021902Thousands attend the funeral of Émile Zola 618921892Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies 719641964The Giving Tree is first published 819701970Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize 919281928Topaze by Marcel Pagnol premieres 1019301930British playwright Harold Pinter is born 1119631963Jean Cocteau dies
1218221822Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher marry 1319581958Paddington Bear is born 1419261926Winnie-the-Pooh is published 1519521952Charlotte’s Web is published 1618541854Oscar Wilde is born 1719571957Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize 1818511851Moby-Dick is published
1917451745Jonathan Swift dies 2018541854Arthur Rimbaud is born 2117721772Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born 2218701870Lord Alfred Douglas is born 2319381938Zane Grey dies 2417881788Sarah Josepha Hale is born 2514001400Geoffrey Chaucer dies (maybe)
2618491849Shirley by Charlotte Brontë is published 2718721872Emily Post is born 2817261726Gulliver’s Travels is published 2919241924Frances Hodgson Burnett dies 3018111811Sense and Sensibility is published 3117951795John Keats is born