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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    119521952The Old Man and the Sea is first published 219221922Henry Lawson dies 318601860Charles Dickens has a bonfire 419241924Children’s writer Joan Aiken is born 519581958Doctor Zhivago first published in English
619251925Andrea Camilleri is born 719621962Karen Blixen dies 814741474Italian poet and playwright Ludovico Ariosto is born 918281828Leo Tolstoy is born 1017971797Mary Wollstonecraft dies 1119421942First Famous Five book published 1219601960Ring of Bright Water is first published
1319161916Roald Dahl is born 1413211321Dante Alighieri dies 1519151915Jeeves and Wooster appear together for the first time 1619931993Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal dies 1718971897What Maisie Knew by Henry James is published 1817091709Samuel Johnson is born 1919111911William Golding is born
2018631863Jacob Grimm dies 2119371937The Hobbit first published 2218881888First issue of National Geographic Magazine is published 2318901890Château d’If opened to the public 18891889Wilkie Collins dies 2418961896F. Scott Fitzgerald is born 2519301930Children’s author Shel Silverstein is born 2618881888T.S. Eliot is born
2718711871Grazia Deledda is born 2818911891Herman Melville dies 2918101810Elizabeth Gaskell is born 3018681868First volume of Little Women is published