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 Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen 11 November 1843: The Ugly Duckling is first published. read more ...
Today
John Milton & The Milton Window at St Margarets 12 November 1656: John Milton marries for the second time. read more ...
Tomorrow
Robert Louis Stevenson as a young child, and at age 10, with his father 13 November 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson is born. read more ...
Mary Poppins and The Match Man 13 November 1926: Mary Poppins first appears in print. 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
3119051905Elizabeth Jenkins is born 17951795John Keats is born