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
12 June 1827: Johanna Spyri is born. read more ...
12 June 1942: Anne Frank receives a birthday present. read more ...
Today
13 June 1850: Alfred, Lord Tennyson marries. read more ...
13 June 1865: William Butler Yeats is born. read more ...
13 June 1908: Anne of Green Gables is published. read more ...
Tomorrow
14 June 1811: Harriet Beecher is born. read more ...
14 June 1936: Gilbert Keith Chesterton dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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119421942 First Little Golden Books published
| 219501950 Peanuts first appears
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318671867 Anthony Trollope resigns from his day job to write full-time
| 417981798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is first published
17951795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sarah Fricker marry
| 519021902 Thousands attend the funeral of Émile Zola
| 618921892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies
| 719641964 The Giving Tree is first published
| 819701970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize
| 919281928 Topaze by Marcel Pagnol premieres
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1019301930 British playwright Harold Pinter is born
| 1119631963 Jean Cocteau dies
| 1218221822 Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher marry
| 1319581958 Paddington Bear is born
| 1419261926 Winnie-the-Pooh is published
| 1519521952 Charlotte’s Web is published
| 1618541854 Oscar Wilde is born
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1719571957 Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize
| 1818511851 Moby-Dick is published
| 1917451745 Jonathan Swift dies
| 2018541854 Arthur Rimbaud is born
| 2117721772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born
| 2218701870 Lord Alfred Douglas is born
| 2319381938 Zane Grey dies
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2417881788 Sarah Josepha Hale is born
| 2514001400 Geoffrey Chaucer dies (maybe)
| 2618491849 Shirley by Charlotte Brontë is published
| 2718721872 Emily Post is born
| 2817261726 Gulliver’s Travels is published
| 2919241924 Frances Hodgson Burnett dies
| 3018111811 Sense and Sensibility is published
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3117951795 John Keats is born
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