Chronography of Literature
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17/4/2017, Columbian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner,
died aged 87.
3/8/2008, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer, died, aged 90.
20/7/2008, Roger
Wolcott Hall, US author, died (born 20/5/1919).
18/3/2008, Sir Arthur C
Clarke, science fiction writer,
died aged 90.
10/11/2007, US author Norman Mailer died aged 81.
12/4/2007, Writer Kurt
Vonnegut died aged 84.
7/1/2007, Magnus
Magnusson, author, died (born 12/10/1927).
Harry Potter books and films
7/7/2011, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Part 2, 8th� film adaptation
of the JK Rowling book series, premiered.
19/11/2010, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Part 1, 7th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series,
premiered.
15/7/2009, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince, 6th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered.
11/7/2007, Harry Potter and the order of
the Phoenix, 5th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered.
6/11/2005, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire, 4th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered in
London. It became the most successful film of the year, earning almost US$ 900
million.
16/7/2005, The book Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince was released. Nine million copies were sold in the first
24 hours. The first Harry Potter
book was released in 1997.
31/5/2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban, 3rd film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered in UK
cinemas.
14/11/2002, Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets, film version of the JK Rowling book, premiered.
16/11/2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer�s
Stone, US film version of the book, premiered.
4/11/2001, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher�s Stone, the first film adaptation of the book, premiered in
London (see 16/11/2001)
26/6/1997, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher�s Stone was published. It rapidly gained popularity through
word of mouth, and enabled JK Rowling to break publishing records.
10/11/2006, Jack
Williamson, science fiction writer, died (born 29/4/1908)
29/10/2006, Nigel
Kneale, writer, died (born 18/4/1922)
21/10/2006, John
Symonds, novelist, died (born 12/3/1914)
17/10/2006, Ursula
Moray Williams, children�s writer, died (born 19/4/1911)
30/8/2006, Naguib
Mahfouz, novelist, died (died 11/12/1911)
17/7/2006, Frank
Morison Spillane, author, died (born 9/3/1918)
27/3/2006, Stanislaw
Lem, author, died (born 12/9/1921)
13/3/2006, Ivy
Wallace, author, died (born 7/10/1915).
3/3/2006, Ivor
Cutler, poet, died (born 15/1/1923)
17/2/2006, Sybille
Bedford, writer, died (born 16/3/1911).
11/2/2006, Peter
Benchley, author of Jaws,
died (born 8/5/1940)
5/11/2005, John
Fowles, author, died (born 31/3/1926).
2/11/2005, Alfred
Shaughnessy, scriptwriter, died (born 19/5/1916).
1/11/2005, Michael
Thwaites, poet, died (born 30/5/1915)
5/10/2005, Maura
Murphy, author, died (born 6/9/1928)
15/7/2005, Professor
David Daiches, author and literary critic, died (born 2/9/1912)
28/6/2005, Professor
Philip Hobsbaum, poet and writer, died (born 29/6/1932)
10/6/2005, Nick
Darke, playwright, died (born 29/8/1948)
6/4/2005, US novelist Saul Bellow
died, aged 89.
11/3/2005, Jean
Cherry Drummond, writer, died (born 17/12/1928).
7/3/2005, Willis
Hall, playwright, died (born 6/4/1929).
19/1/2005, K
Sello Duiker, South African novelist, died (born 1974).
15/1/2005, Walter
Ernsting, author, died.
24/11/2004, Arthur
Hailey, writer, died.
26/4/2004, Hubert
Selby Jr., writer, died.
27/3/2003, Paul
Zindel, writer, died.
25/8/2002, Dorothy
Hewett, author, died.
10/11/2001, Ken
Kesey, writer, died.
11/5/2001, Douglas
Adams, author, died.
11/3/2001, Douglas
Adams, British author famous for his book The Hitchhiker�s Guide to
the Galaxy, died of heart disease (born 11/3/1952)
12/12/1999, Joseph
Heller, author, died.
8/2/1999, Iris
Murdoch, author, died.
28/10/1998, Ted
Hughes, Poet Laureate since 1984, died.
12/5/1998, Hermann Lenz,
German writer, died aged 75.
27/4/1998, Carlos
Castaneda, writer, died.
19/4/1998, Octavio
Paz, writer, died.
15/3/1998, Benjamin
Spock, author and paediatrician, died.
2/8/1997, US writer William Burroughs died.
5/4/1997, Allen Ginsberg, poet, died.
19/4/1996, Erma Brombeck, writer, died.
28/1/1996, Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet, died.
2/11/1995, Canadian novelist Robertson Davies died.
22/10/1995, Kingsley Amis, British author, died.
23/2/1995, James Herriot, writer, died.
9/1/1995, Peter Cook, writer, was born.
24/12/1994, British playwright John Osborne died.
16/12/1994, Mary Durack, poet, died.
24/9/1994, French novelist Francoise Sagan died.
6/2/1994, Joseph Cotton, author, died.
21/12/1993, Guy des Cars, French novelist died (born 1911)
25/11/1993, English
author and composer Anthony Burgess died, aged 76.
28/8/1993, William
Stafford, writer, died.
12/6/1993, Sarah Peralta,
US author, died.
9/5/1993, Freya Stark,
author, died.
21/1/1993, Abe Kobo,
Japanese
writer, died (born 7/3/1924).
18/1/1993, Eleanor Hibbert,
English writer, died (born 1/9/1906).
13/8/1992, Jan Elburg,
poet, died.
11/4/1992, Eve Merriam,
US poet, died (born 19/7/1916).
6/4/1992, Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer, born 2/1/1920, died.
29/2/1992, Ruth Pitter,
English poet (born 7/11/1897) died.
11/12/1991, Artur Lundkvist,
Swedish
writer (born 3/3/1906) died.
29/10/1991, Donald
Churchill, playwright, died of a heart attack aged 60
7/12/1990, Reinaldo Arenas,
Cuban poet and novelist, died aged 47.
23/11/1990, Roald Dahl,
British writer, died (born 13/9/1916)
30/9/1990,
Australian novelist Patrick White died.
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15/9/1989, US writer Robert Penn
Warren, born 24/4/1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky, died in Stratton,
Vermont.
19/4/1989, Daphne du
Maurier, writer,
died.
8/6/1988, British
writer Russell
Harty died.
8/5/1988, Robert A
Heinlein, writer, died.
3/10/1987, French
playwright Jean
Anouilh died.
23/9/1987, The book, Spycatcher,
memoirs of former British intelligence officer Peter Wright, was to be published in Australia despite opposition by Britain�s
MI5.
20/9/1987, Michael Stewart, US
playwright, died aged 63.
11/4/1987, Primo Levi, Italian Jewish
writer, died aged 67.
2/2/1987, Alistair MacLean, novelist, died.
4/1/1986, Christopher Isherwood, writer, was born.
7/12/1985, Robert Graves, writer and poet, died.
2/12/1985, Philip Larkin, poet, died.
25/8/1985, Rudi Blesh, US author, died in Gilmarton, new Hampshire (born 21/1/1899 in
Guthrie, Oklahoma)
24/7/1985, Alice DG Miller, US screenwriter, died (born 28/6/1894).
16/7/1985, Heinrich Boll, writer, died.
19/12/1984. Ted Hughes
was appointed Poet Laureate in succession
to Sir John Betjeman.
25/8/1984, Truman
Capote, author, died.
14/8/1984, English writer JB Priestley died.
19/5/1984, Sir John
Betjeman, Poet Laureate
since 1972, died aged 78.
15/4/1984, Alexander
Trocchi, Scottish writer, died aged 58.
15/3/1983, Rebecca West,
British author, died aged 90.
24/2/1983, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright (born 26/3/1911) died in New York City.
10/2/1983, Vittorio
Sereni, Italian poet, died aged 69
12/9/1981, Eugenio Montale,
Italian
poet, died aged 84.
7/9/1981, Christy Brown,
Irish author, died.
10/3/1981, Death of Sir Maurice
Oldfield, the British intelligence chief thought to be the model for
�M� in Ian
Fleming�s James Bond novels.
7/6/1980, American
novelist Henry
Miller died.
15/4/1980, Jean Paul
Sartre, French writer and philosopher, died.
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14/5/1979, Jean Rhys,
novelist, died aged 88.
22/10/1978, John Riley,
poet, died.
14/4/1978, F R Leavis,
British literary critic, died aged 82.
11/4/1977, Jacques Prevert,
French
poet, died aged 77.
23/11/1976, Andre Malreux, French novelist. died aged 75.
29/8/1976, Kazi Nazrul
Islam, Bengali poet, died aged 77.
15/7/1976, Paul Gallico,
writer, died.
12/1/1976, Dame Agatha
Christie, English crime story writer
and creator of the Belgian
detective character Hercule Poirot,
died.� She was born in Torquay on
15/9/1890.
21/11/1975, Gunnar
Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer, died aged 86
14/2/1975, PG Wodehouse,
author, died.
29/7/1974, Erich Kastner,
German author, died aged 75.
5/7/1974, British
novelist Georgette
Hayer died.
29/1/1974, HE Bates,
English novelist, died aged 68.
28/12/1973, In Paris,
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn published The
Gulag Archipelago, detailing conditions in the Soviet prison system.
28/9/1973, W H Auden,
English-American
poet, died aged 66.
2/9/1973, J R R Tolkien, author of The
Lord of the Rings, died at Bournemouth.
22/2/1973, Elizabeth Bowen,
Irish novelist, died aged 73.
10/10/1972, Sir John Betjeman,
born 28/8/1906, was appointed Poet Laureate.
30/9/1972, Ari Behn,
author, was born.
6/7/1972, Laurent Gaude,
French writer, was born.
15/2/1972, US writer
Edgar Snow
died.
28/9/1970, John Dos Passos,
US writer,
died in Baltimore, Maryland..
25/9/1970, Erich Maria
Remarque, German anti-war novelist, died.
7/7/1970, Sir Allen Lane,
publisher and founder of Penguin
paperback books in 1936, died.
7/6/1970, E M Forster,
novelist, died.
28/2/1970, Lemony Snicket,
writer, was born.
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6/11/1969, Susan Taubes,
Hungarian-born US novelist, died aged 41
4/5/1969, F Osbert S
Sitwell, poet, died.
11/3/1969. The
author John
Wyndham died.
11/1/1969, Richmal
Crompton, British author died (born 1890)
20/12/1968. John Steinbeck,
American author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, Nobel Prize Winner in 1962, died in New York City.
28/11/1968. Enid Blyton, creator
of Noddy and Big Ears, died. She was born on 11/8/1897 in East Dulwich. In the
mid 1930s she began writing her stories, which featured Noddy, the Famous Five,
and the Secret Seven.
25/11/1968, Upton
Sinclair, writer, died.
10/11/1968, Novelist John Steinbeck died.
1/6/1968, Helen Keller, US author, died
aged 87.
7/10/1967, Norman Angell,
English
author and politician, died aged 92.
31/8/1967, Ilya Ehrenburg,
Soviet
author, died aged 75.
9/8/1967, Joe Orton, English author and
playwright, died aged 34.
3/8/1967, Siegfried
Sassoon, British poet, died.
22/7/1967, US poet Carl Sandburg died in North Carolina.
8/2/1967, Rachel
Cusk, author, was born
23/12/1966, Heimito von
Doderer, Austrian
novelist (born 5/11/1896 in Vienna) died in Vienna.
8/10/1966, Kevin
Fleming O'Brien, US writer, was born.
28/9/1966, Andre
Breton, French poet, died.
24/9/1966, Michael
J Varhola, author, was born.
17/8/1966, William
E Dudley, poet, was born.
9/8/1966, Giorgi
Leonidze, Georgian poet and author, died aged 66.
10/4/1966, British author Evelyn Waugh died.
18/1/1966, Kathleen Norris,
US writer, died (born 1880)
16/12/1965, Somerset
Maugham, author, died this day.
31/7/1965, J K Rowling,
British author of the Harry Potter
series, was born.
4/1/1965. Poet
and playwright T
S Eliot died. He was born on 26/9/1888 in Saint Loius, Missouri.
After studying at Harvard University he went to Paris in 1910 to teach French
literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne. Later, after the start of World War
One, he went to Merton College, Oxford, to read Greek Philosophy. In 1915 he
married Vivien
Haigh-Wood and in 1919 became a British citizen. His first volume of
poetry, Prufrock and other Observations,
was published in 1917 followed by Poems
in 1919. In 1922 The Waste Land,
regarded as his greatest poem, reflected the discontent that followed the
trauma of the Great War. In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
9/12/1964, English poet Dame Edith Sitwell died, aged 77.
3/12/1964, Ernst Ginsberg,
writer, died
18/9/1964,
Playwright Sean
O�Casey died.
12/8/1964, Ian Fleming,
British author and creator of James
Bond, died aged 56.
3/7/1964, Joanne Harris,
novelist, was born
22/6/1964, Dan Brown,
writer, was born.
26/5/1964, Caitl�n R.
Kiernan, Irish-born US science fiction and fantasy author, was born
in Dublin
26/3/1964, You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming's 12th James Bond novel was released by Jonathan
Cape in the UK.
20/3/1964, Irish
playwright Brendan Behan
died.
10/1/1964, A Marja,
Dutch author, died.
3/9/1963, Poet Louis MacNeice
died.
27/6/1963, Meera Syal,
writer, was born.
24/6/1963, Anatoly
Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer, was born.
11/2/1963, Sylvia Plath,
writer, died.
29/1/1963, US poet Robert Frost
died.
7/9/1962, Isak Dinesen,
Danish writer, died (born 17/4/1885).
6/7/1962, William
Faulkner, US novelist, died.
7/6/1962, William
Faulkner, US writer
(born 25/9/1897 in New Albany, Mississippi) died in Oxford, Mississippi.
2/6/1962, Vita
Sackville-West, British novelist,
died.
2/11/1961, James Thurber,
author, died in New York.
27/9/1961, Hilda Doolittle,
US poet (born 10/9/1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), died in Zurich,
Switzerland.
2/7/1961, The author Ernest Hemingway, born 21/7/1899 in Oak Park,
Illinois, committed suicide.
25/11/1960, John F Kennedy
Jr., publisher, was born.
16/9/1960, Kurt Busiek,
US comic book writer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
30/5/1960, Boris Pasternak,
Russian author of Dr Zhivago, Nobel Prize winner in 1958 (which he declined),
died near Moscow.
4/5/1960, French
novelist Albert
Camus was killed in a car crash.
29/4/1960, Robert J.
Sawyer, Canadian sci-fi writer, was born in Ottawa, Ontario
28/4/1960, Ian Rankin,
author, was born.
12/1/1960, British
author Nevil
Shute died.
28/2/1959, Maxwell
Anderson, US playwright, died in Stamford, Connecticut (born
15/12/1888 in Atlantic, Pennsylvania)
5/11/1959, Justin Catanoso,
writer, was born.
3/7/1959, Julie Burchill,
writer, was born.
3/5/1959, Ben Elton,
writer, was born.
15/3/1959, Ben Okri,
author, was born
1/11/1958, Charlie Kaufman,
writer, was born.
11/9/1958, Robert W
Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet, died (born 1874).
18/8/1958, Vladimir
Nabokov�s controversial novel Lolita
was published in the USA.
4/8/1958, Ethel Anderson,
Australian poet, died (born 1883)
15/2/1958, Chrystine
Brouillet, Quebec novelist, was born.
17/12/1957, Dorothy L
Sayers, British novelist and playwright, died.
25/10/1957, Lord Edward
Dunsany, writer, died in Dublin, Ireland (born 24/7/1878 in London,
England)
24/7/1957, Sacha Guitry,
French playwright, died aged 72.
28/6/1957, German
author Alfred
Doblin died.
29/5/1957, George Bacovia,
Romanian poet, died aged 75.
10/2/1957, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, author, died.
22/10/1956, Marco Lodoli,
Italian writer, was born in Rome.
24/8/1956, Adam Gopnik,
US writer, was born.
14/8/1956, German
writer Bertolt
Brecht died.
7/8/1856, John Treville
laTouche, US author, died in Calais, Vermont (born 13/11/1917 in
Richmond, Virginia)
9/6/1956, Patricia
Cornwell, author, was born.
29/1/1956, H L Mencken,
US writer, died aged 75.
JRR Tolkein
20/10/1955, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
by JRR
Tolkein was published.
29/7/1954, The Fellowship of the Ring, first part
of JRR Tolkein�s
Lord of the Rings, was published in
Britain.
3/1/1892, Author
J.R.R.Tolkein, creator of The
Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit,
was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. He died in
Bournemouth in 1973.
12/8/1955, Thomas Mann,
German novelist, died aged 80.
24/4/1955, Alfred Polgar,
Austrian writer and theatre critic, died aged 79
8/4/1955, Barbara
Kingsolver, writer, was born.
26/5/1954, Alan
Hollingshurst, writer, was born.
16/2/1954, Ian Banks,
author, was born.
30/1/1954, John Murray
Anderson, US author, died in New York (born 20/9/1886 in St Johns,
Newfoundland)
10/12/1953, Churchill received the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
28/11/1953, Eugene O�Neill, playwright,
died.
9/11/1953. Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas, born in Swansea on
27/10/1914, died in New York City aged 39 after falling into an
alcoholic coma. He had drunk 18 stiff whiskies. His major work, Under Milk Wood, was broadcast on radio
in 1954.
26/10/1952, Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate,
was born
26/9/1952, George
Santayana, Spanish writer, died aged 88.
11/3/1952, Douglas
Adams, British writer, was born.
19/2/1952, Amy
Tan, novelist, was born.
8/11/1951, Rupert
Allason, author, was born
2/6/1951, John Erskine, US author,
died� in New York (born in New York City,
5/10/1879).
19/2/1951, French writer Andre Gide died.
10/1/1951, Sinclair Lewis,
US novelist, died aged 65.
2/11/1950. George Bernard
Shaw, born 26/7/1856 in Dublin, died aged 94, in Ayot St Lawrence,
Hertfordshire, UK.� A failed novelist, he
was 36 when his first play, Widower�s
Houses, was performed.
27/10/1950, AN Wilson,
author, was born
18/10/1950, Wendy
Wasserstein, playwright, was born (died 30/1/2006)
16/10/1950, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis,
was first published.
21/6/1950, Anne Carson,
poet, was born.
21/5/1950, Will Hutton,
writer, was born.
23/3/1950, Joseph Connolly,
author, was born.
19/3/1950, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, author
of the Tarzan books, died aged 75.
24/2/1950, Richard Wayne
Bandler, US author, was born.
13/2/1950, Rafael Sabatini,
Italian novelist, died aged 74.
11/2/1950, Author Kurt Vonnegut was published for the first
time, as his story Report on the
Barnhouse Effect appeared in Collier's magazine.
21/1/1950. George Orwell
died (born 1903). This was the pen
name of British author Eric Arthur Blair. His best known works
include Animal Farm and 1984.
16/8/1949, Margaret
Mitchell, author of Gone With
the Wind, died after being hit by a car.
7/8/1949, Matthew Parris,
author, was born
6/6/1949, George Orwell�s
book Nineteen Eighty Four was
published. Suffering from tuberculosis, Orwell completed the book
between periods of hospitalisation in a remote house in The Hebrides.
5/6/1949, Ken Follett,
Welsh author, was born.
6/5/1949, Maurice
Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright, died aged 86.
12/4/1949, Scott Turow,
writer, was born.
26/3/1949, Patrick Suskind,
writer, was born.
16/9/1948, Julia Donaldson,
English children's writer, was born in London, England.
29/8/1948, Nick Darke,
playwright, was born (died 10/6/2005)
26/2/1948, David Edgar,
playwright, was born.
26/1/1948, John Lomax,
writer on folk music, died (born 23/9/1867).
12/11/1947, Baroness
Emmuska Orczy, writer, died.
22/9/1947, Jo Beverley,
English-born Canadian romance novelist, was born in Blackpool (died 2016)
21/9/1947, Stephen King,
writer, was born.
23/8/1947, Willy Russell,
author and dramatist, was born.
6/8/1947, Alan Sullivan,
Canadian poet and short story author, died aged 78
12/5/1947, Michael
Ignatieff, writer, was born
6/2/1947, Hans Fallada,
German novelist, died in Berlin (born 21/7/1893 in Greifswald, Germany).
18/11/1946, Alan Dean
Foster, writer, was born.
14/11/1946, Mark le Fanu,
General Secretary of the Society of Authors, was born
9/11/1946, Marina Warner,
writer, was born
19/10/1946, Philip Pullman,
author, was born
8/10/1946, Bel Mooney,
writer, was born
31/8/1946, Harley
Granville-Barker, English playwright, died aged 69.
13/8/1946. Author H G Wells;
born on 21/9/1866, died in London, aged 76.
27/7/1946, The US writer Gertrude Stein (born 3/2/1874 in Allegheny,
Pennsylvania), died in Paris, France.
6/6/1946, Gerhart
Hauptmann, German novelist,
died aged 83.
27/2/1946, Thomas Hauser,
author, was born.
28/12/1945, Theodore
Dreiser, US author (born 27/8/1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana), died in
Hollywood, California.
26/10/1945, Pat Conroy,
author, was born in Atlanta, Georgia (died 2016)
20/7/1945, Paul Valery,
French poet, died aged 74.
31/7/1944. The pilot
and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of �The Little Prince�, was reported
missing.
9/2/1944, Alice Walker,
African-American author and social activist, was born.
22/12/1943. The
author Beatrix
Potter died aged 77.
14/11/1943, Susan Lydon,
writer, was born (died 15/7/2005)
8/5/1943, Pat Barker,
novelist, was born.
4/10/1941. Anne Rice,
writer, was born.
24/4/1941, Karin Boye,
Swedish poet and novelist, died aged 40.
18/3/1941, Wolfgang Bauer,
writer, was born.
8/3/1941, Sherwood
Anderson, US novelist,
died aged 65.
21/12/1940. F Scott
Fitzgerald, US author,
died.
8/5/1940, Peter
Benchley, author of Jaws,
was born (died 11/2/2006)
29/2/1940, EF. Benson,
English novelist, died aged 72
9/2/1940, JM
Coetzee, writer, was born.
18/11/1939, Margaret Atwood,
writer, was born.
27/7/1939, William Longley,
poet, was born in Belfast.
23/7/1939, Nicolas Gage,
writer., was born.
28/6/1939, Harry Leon
Wilson, US� novelist, died
aged 72
25/4/1939, Ted Kooser,
US poet, was born.
12/4/1939, Alan Ayckbourn,
English playwright, was born.
28/1/1939, W B (William
Butler) Yeats, Irish poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize winner in
1923, died in the south of France.
25/12/1938, Czech
writer Karel
Kapek died.
9/10/1938, John Sutherland,
English author, was born.
4/10/1938, Cholpon,
Uzbek poet, was killed in the Great Stalinist Purge.
25/8/1938, Frederick
Forsyth, writer, was born.
23/8/1938, Roger Greenaway, British author,
was born in Southmead, Bristol
28/7/1938, Robert Hughes,
writer, was born.
16/6/1938, Joyce Carol
Oates, writer, was born.
1/6/1938, Khawar Rizvi,
poet, was born in the Punjab, British
India.
19/4/1938, Henry Newbolt,
English poet, died aged 75.
4/10/1937, Jackie Collins,
author, was born.
21/9/1937, JRR Tolkien�s
book The Hobbit was published,
Initially just 1,500 copies were printed but the book had, by 2010, sold over
50 million copies in 38 languages.
7/9/1937, Christopher
Booker, author, was born
5/8/1937, Carla Lane,
writer, was born.
18/7/1937, Hunter S
Thompson, writer, was born (died 20/2/2005).
3/7/1937, Tom Stoppard,
Czech-born
British playwright, was born.
24/6/1937, Anita Desai,
novelist, was born
16/6/1937, Erich Segal,
author, was born.
11/6/1937, Mate Zalka,
Hungarian writer, died aged 41.
30/5/1937, Arthur C Jacobs,
Scottish poet, was born in Glasgow (died 1994)
30/4/1937, Tony Harrison,
poet, was born.
23/4/1937, Lady Victoria
Glendinning, author, was born.
9/4/1937, Albert Paine,
75, US author, died.
9/3/1937, George Orwell�s
book, The Road to Wigan Pier, was
published. It was about the effects of the Depression on northern England.
5/2/1937, Lou Andreas
Salome, writer, writer, died.
10/12/1936, Luigi
Pirandello, Italian author, died aged 69.
22/11/1936, John Bird,
writer, was born
15/11/1936, Wolf Biermann,
writer, was born
23/8/1936, Juliette Adam,
French writer (born 4/120/1836) died.
19/8/1936, Frederico
Garcia Lorca, Spanish writer, died.
14/6/1936, G K Chesterton,
British poet and novelist, died.
18/1/1936, Rudyard Kipling, English novelist
who won the Nobel Prize in 1907,
died.
17/9/1935, Ken Kesey,
author, was born.
8/9/1935, Maurice
Cockrill, artist, was born
27/8/1935, Michael Holroyd,
author, was born.
24/8/1935, Paul Barker,
writer, was born.
30/7/1935. Penguin paperbacks went on sale in
Britain. The first such book on sale was a biography of Shelley. They cost 5d each, and had distinctive orange and white covers. Later,
non-fiction Penguins were coloured blue and white, fiction was still orange and
white, and miscellaneous were yellow and white.
17/6/1935, G W Russell,
Irish writer, died aged 68.
23/5/1935, Laase
Stromstedt, Swedish author, was born (died 2009).
17/5/1935, Dennis
Potter, writer, was born.
1/5/1935, Julian
Mitchell, writer, was born
4/4/1935, Trevor
Griffiths, playwright, was born.
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21/11/1934, Beryl
Bainbridge, writer, was born
9/5/1934, Alan Bennett, British playwright, was born.
28/4/1934, Lois
Duncan, US novelist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died
2016)
27/2/1934, Ralph
Nader, author and consumer activist, was born.
10/2/1934, Fleur
Adcock, poet, was born.
4/12/1933, Stefan George,
German poet, died aged 65.
11/9/1933, Dr
William L Pierce, writer, was born.
13/7/1933, David
Storey, writer, was born
17/3/1933, Penelope
Lively, writer, was born.
21/1/1933, George Augustus
Moore, Irish writer,
died aged 80.
1/1/1933, Joe Orton, English author, was born (died 1967)
15/12/1932, Edna
O�Brien, writer, was born.
2/10/1932, David St Clair,
US writer, was born.
21/9/1932, Shirley
Conran, writer, was born
27/8/1932, Lady
Antonia Fraser, writer, was born.
17/8/1932, VS
Naipaul, Indian author, was born.
6/8/1932, Charles
Wood, writer, was born
3/8/1932, Mario
Montes de Oca, Mexican poet, was born.
6/7/1932, Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, died (born 8/3/1859).
29/6/1932, Professor
Philip Hobsbaum, poet and writer, was born (died 28/6/2005)
11/6/1932, Athol
Fugard, playwright, was born.
1/6/1932, Philo Bregstein, Dutch writer,
was born.
25/5/1932, John
Gregory Dunne, author and poet, was born.
24/5/1932, Arnold
Wesker, playwright, was born.
18/3/1932, John Updike,
US author, was born (died 2009)
2/3/1932, Takako
Takahashi, Japanese author, was born in Kyoto (died 2013)
10/2/1932, Edgar Wallace,
English writer, died aged 57.
26/1/1932, Ronald
Allison, author, was born.
21/1/1932, Lytton Strachey,
founder member of the Bloomsbury Group,
an influential writers and intellectual
group, died.
29/11/1931, Geoffrey
Moorhouse, writer, was born
28/11/1931, Dervia
Murphy, author, was born
19/10/1931, John
le Carre, novelist, was born.
22/9/1931, Fay
Weldon, writer, was born.
31/8/1931, Hall Caine,
British novelist, died aged 78.
22/8/1931, Joseph
Tabrar, British author, died in London (born 1857 in London)
14/8/1931, Frederick
Raphael, author, was born.
26/6/1931, Colin
Wilson, author, was born.
10/4/1931, Khalil
Gibran, poet, died.
1/4/1931, Rolf
Hochhuth, German playwright, was born.
27/3/1931, Arnold Bennett,
English writer, died aged 64.
15/11/1930, JG
Ballard, writer, was born
10/10/1930, Harold
Pinter, British playwright, was born.
10/9/1930, Harold
Pinter, playwright, was born
19/8/1930, Frank
McCourt, writer, was born.
16/8/1930, Ted Hughes,
English poet, was born (died 1998)
10/8/1930, Barry
Unsworth, author, was born
7/7/1930, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, British author
created the crime detective character Sherlock
Holmes, died, aged 71.
23/6/1930, Anthony Thwaite,
poet, was born
20/4/1930, Easter
Sunday. Sir
Antony Jay, writer, was born.
14/4/1930, Russian
Futurist poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky committ4ed suicide.
13/4/1930, Subbiah Muthiah,
Indian writer, was born (died 20/4/2019).
17/2/1930, Ruth Rendell,
writer, was born.
9/1/1930, Brian Friel,
writer, was born.
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24/12/1929, Philip Sandeman
Ziegler, author, was born
10/12/1929, Harry Crosby,
wealthy American poet and publisher, died aged 31 from a self-inflicted
gunshot.
9/11/1929, Imre
Kertesz, writer, was born.
13/10/1929, Walasse Ting,
Chinese-American poet, was born in Shanghai. He died in 2010.
14/9/1929, Larry Collins,
writer, was born (died 20/6/2005)
27/7/1929, Jack Higgins,
novelist, was born
15/7/1929, Hugo von
Hoffmannsthal, Austrian author,
died aged 55.
23/4/1929, Professor
George Steiner, author, was born.
6/4/1929, Willis Hall,
playwright, was born (died 7/3/2005).
2/4/1929, Catherine
Gaskin, author, was born.
1/4/1929, Milan Kundera,
writer, was born.
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11/12/1928, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, was born.
21/11/1928, Hermann
Sudermann, German author, died.
9/11/1928, Anne Sexton,
poet, was born.
17/12/1928, Jean Cherry Drummond,
writer, was born (died 11/3/2005).
2/11/1928, Paul Johnson,
writer, was born
14/9/1928, Italo Svevo,
writer, died.
6/9/1928, Maura Murphy,
author, was born (died 5/10/2005)
16/7/1928, Robert Sheckley,
science fiction writer, was born (died9/12/2005)
10/6/1928, Maurice Sendak,
writer, was born.
9/6/1928, Bob Bolling,
US� writer, was born in Brockton,
Massachusetts
6/3/1928, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, writer, was born
24/5/1928, William Trevor,
novelist,, was born.
10/4/1928, English writer Stanley John Weyman died, aged 72.
4/4/1928, Maya Angelou,
author, was born.
12/3/1928, US playwright Edward Albee was born (died
2016).
4/3/1928, Allan Sillitoe,
writer, was born.
3/3/1928, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, writer, was born.
11/1/1928. Thomas Hardy,
English poet and novelist, author of
Tess of the D�Ubervilles, died in Dorset aged 87.
20/10/1927, Ronald
Pearsall, writer, was born (died 27/9/2005)
31/7/1927, Peter
Nichols, playwright, was born
28/6/1927, Correlli Barnet,
author, was born
14/6/1927, British author Jerome K Jerome died.
25/5/1927, Robert
Ludlum, spy novelist, was born.
27/4/1927, Coretta
Scott |King, writer, writer, was born.
21/2/1927, Erma Bombeck, writer, was born.
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29/12/1926, Rainer
Maria Rilke, Austrian poet, died.
14/10/1926. In
Britain, A
A. Milne published the first Winnie
the Pooh, a children�s book. It was inspired by his son Christopher Robin�s
love for a bear in London Zoo called Winnipeg.
14/9/1926, Michel Butor,
French novelist, was born.
3/9/1926, Alison Lurie,
US writer, was born.
12/7/1926, Gertrude Bell,
writer, was born.
3/6/1926, Allan Ginsberg, US poet, was born.
15/5/1926, Peter Shaffer,
English playwright, was born (died
1926).
28/4/1926, Harper Lee,
writer, was born.
23/4/1926, JP Donleavy,
author, was born.
31/3/1926, John Fowles,
author, was born (died 5/11/2005).
13/1/1926, Michael Bond,
author, was born
24/11/1925, William F.
Buckley, Jr, author, was born (died 2008)
3/10/1925, Gore Vidal,
US writer, was born (died
2012).
1/10/1925, Christine
Pullein-Thompson, children�s author, was born (died 2/12/2005)
1/8/1925, Pam Gems,
playwright, was born.
11/6/1925, William Styron,
author, was born (died 1/11/2006)
23/5/1925, British publishing magnate Sir Edward Hulton died after
falling off his penny-farthing bicycle.
14/5/1925, Henry Rider
Haggard, English writer,
died aged 69.
19/1/1925, Nina Bawden,
novelist, was born.
14/1/1925, Yukio Mishima,
writer, was born.
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12/10/1924, French
writer Anatole
France died.
30/9/1924, Truman Capote,
writer, was born.
12/9/1924, George Target,
novelist, was born (died 14/12/2005).
3/8/1924,
Polish-born UK author Joseph Conrad died.
2/8/1924, James Arthur
Baldwin, US Black writer, was born.
23/7/1924, Gavin Lambert,
writer, was born (died 17/7/2005)
20/6/1924, Audie Murphy,
writer, was born.
3/6/1924, German novelist Franz Kafka died in a sanatorium at Kierling,
near Vienna, after a seven year battle with tuberculosis.
30/1/1924, Lloyd Alexander,
author, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 2007)
15/1/1924, Michael
Davie, author, was born (died 7/12/2005)
20/11/1923, Nadine Gordimer,
writer, was born.
22/9/1923, Dannie Abse,
writer, was born
30/3/1923, Milton Acorn,
poet / writer, born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (died 1986).
9/1/1923. Katherine
Mansfield, New Zealand author,
died aged 34.
3/1/1923, Death of
Czech satirical writer Jaroslav Hasek.
18/11/1922, Marcel Proust,
writer, died.
15/11/1922, Marcel Proust,
French writer, died aged 51.
11/11/1922, Kurt Vonnegut
Jr, science fiction writer, was born.
22/10/1922, Lyman Abbott,
US author, died (born
18/12/1835)
12/7/1922, Michael Ventris,
scholarly writer, was born.
15/6/1922, Alan Hunter,
author, was born (died 26/2/2005).
2/2/1922, First
publication of Ulysses, by James Joyce.
12/9/1921, Stanislaw Lem,
author, was born (died 27/3/2006)
14/7/1921, Leon Garfield,
children�s writer, was born.
11/6/1921, Michael Meyer,
English writer, was born.
18/5/1921, Patrick Dennis,
US author, was born in Chicago (died 1976)
31/1/1921, Norman Mailer,
US author, was born.
22/10/1920, Timothy
O�Leary, writer, was born.
15/10/1920, Mario
Puzo, US author, was born in New York City (died 1999)
22/8/1920, Ray
Bradbury, author, was born
3/8/1920, Baroness
RD James of Holland Park, writer, was born
9/5/1920, Richard
Adams, author, was born.
9/3/1920, Haralamb Lecca,
Romanian playwright and poet, died aged 47
24/1/1920, William Percy
French, Irish author, died in Formby, Lancashire (born near
Castlebar, 1/5/1854).
2/1/1920. Isaac Asimov
was born.
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5/9/1919, Robert Kee,
author, was born
19/8/1919, Malcolm Forbes,
publisher, was born.
1/7/1919, Iris Murdoch,
British author, was born.
5/6/1919, Richard Scarry,
children�s� author, was born.
20/5/1919, Roger Wolcott
Hall, US author, was born (died 20/7/2008).
30/4/1919, Oscar Adams,
US author, died (born 1855).
27/1/1919, Endre Ady,
Hungarian
poet (born 21/11/1877) died.
8/1/1919, Peter Altenberg,
writer, died aged 59.
13/12/1918, Monroe H
Rosenfeld, US author, died in new York (born 1862 in Brooklyn, New
York)
11/12/1918, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist,
was born in Rostov.
2/11/1918, Frederick
Leboyer, author, was born.
2/5/1918, Alastair Forbes,
writer, was born.
7/4/1918, Isaac Rosenberg,
English poet, was killed in action in France.
9/3/1918, Frank Morison
Spillane, author, was born (died 17/7/2006)
8/3/1918, Charles Adams, US poet
(born 21/4/1842) died.
16/1/1918, Stirling
Silliphant, writer, was born.
16/12/1917, Arthur C Clarke,
British
science-fiction writer, was born.
28/11/1917, Marni Hodgkin,
US� children's book editor, was born in
New York City (died 2015)
3/11/1917, Dr Conor Cruise
O�Brien, author, was born.
7/8/1917, Basil Hood,
British dramatist, died in London (born 5/4/1864 in Yorkshire)
13/3/1917, Maria Vlamynck,
Flemish author, was born.
1/3/1917, Robert Lowell,
US poet, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
11/2/1917, Sidney Sheldon,
writer, was born.
29/12/1916, James Joyce�s
book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was published in New York. This semi-autobiographical work became one
of his best known publications, despite being initially rejected for
publication.
14/11/1916, H H Munro
(Saki) died, aged 45.
13/9/1916,� Roald Dahl, author
of children�s books, was born in Llandaff, Glamorganshire.
11/9/1916, Jean Webster,
US writer, died (born 1876)
20/5/1916, Owen Chadwick,
British writer, was born
28/2/1916, Henry James,
US novelist, died.
6/2/1916, South
African poet Ruben
Dario died.
7/10/1915, Ivy Wallace,
author, was born (died 13/3/2006).
7/8/1915, Philip Snow,
author, was born.
10/7/1915, Saul Bellow,
US author, was born in Lachine,
Quebec.
30/5/1915, Michael
Thwaites, poet, was born (died 1/11/2005)
28/5/1915, John B Gruelle
patented the Raggedy Ann doll. It was an early example of merchandise tied in
with literary fiction, here an illustrated children�s book.
19/5/1916, Alfred
Shaughnessy, scriptwriter, was born (died 2/11/2005).
23/4/1915, Rupert Brooke,
British poet, died at Lemnos.
11/11/1914, Howard Fast,
US author, was born in New York City.
27/10/1914, Dylan Marlais
Thomas, Welsh poet,
was born in Swansea, the son of a schoolmaster.
8/10/1914, Adelaide
Crapsey, US poet, died (born 1878)
19/7/1914, Hubert Gregg,
British author, was born in London
5/6/1914, George Painter,
biographer of Marcel
Proust, was born (died 8/12/2005)
26/11/1913, Sybil Marshall,
writer, was born (died 26/8/2005).
7/11/1913. Birth of
the French novelist and playwright Albert Camus.
He was born in Algeria and studied philosophy. He worked as an actor, teacher,
and journalist; and was active in the French Resistance in World War II. But he
found fame as an existentialist writer; for example his nihilist novel The Outsider, 1942, contained the line
�Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday. I don�t know�. He was awarded
the Nobel prize for literature I 1957, and died in 1960.
11/8/1913, Angus Wilson,
English novelist, was born (died 1991).
29/3/1913, R. S. Thomas,
Welsh poet, was born� in Cardiff (died 2000).
2/9/1912, Professor David
Daiches, author and literary critic, was born (died 15/7/2005)
14/5/1912, August
Strindberg, playwright,
died in Stockholm, Sweden..
20/4/1912, Bram Stoker,
Dublin-born creator of Dracula in 1897, died aged 65 in London.
26/3/1912, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright, was born (died 1983).
27/2/1912, British
poet and writer Lawrence
Durrell was born.
17/2/1912, Andre Norton,
science fiction writer, was born (died 17/3/2005)
11/12/1911, Naguib Mahfouz,
novelist, was born (died 30/8/2006)
19/9/1911, British
writer William
Golding was born.
2/7/1911, Diego Fabbri,
Italian playwright, was born in Forl�.
10/6/1911, Terence
Rattigan, playwright, was born.
29/5/1911, W S Gilbert,
English poet and dramatist, died aged 75.
19/4/1911, Ursula Moray
Williams, children�s writer, was born (died 17/10/2006)
26/3/1911, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright
(born 26/3/1911) died in New York City.
16/3/1911, Sybille Bedford,
writer, was born (died 17/2/2006).
22/1/1911, Lady Mary
Hayley Bell Mills, writer, was born (died 1/12/2005)
19/12/1910, Jean Genet,
novelist, was born.
7/11/1910, Leo Tolstoy,
author of War and Peace and Anna
Karenina, died.
17/10/1910, Julia Howe,
US author, died (born 27/5/1819).
14/9/1910, Lehman
Engel, US author, was born.
13/7/1910, Loren
Pope, US author, was born.
2/7/1910, Frederick Furnivall, English
writer, died (born 4/2/1825),
5/6/1910, Death of American
short-story writer O. Henry (real name William Sydney
Porter).
26/4/1910, Bjornstjerne
Bjornson, Norwegian writer, died (born 8/12/1832).
21/4/1910. Mark
Twain, American author, died in Reading, Connecticut, aged 74.
31/3/1910, Jean
Moreas, French poet, died (born 15/4/1856).
20/1/1910, Joy
Adamson, writer, was born.
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14/12/1909, Frederick
Greenwood, English writer, died (born 4/1830).
12/12/1909, Armand
Boni, Flemish poet and writer, was born in Antwerp, Belgium (died
1991)
18/11/1909, Richard Gilder,
US poet, died (born 8/2/1844).
10/11/1909, Johnny
Marks, US author, was born� in
Mount Vernon, New York (died 3/9/1985 in New York)
18/8/1909, Sir
Theodore Martin, British author, died (born 16/9/1816).
6/8/1909, Adalbert
Merx, German scholarly writer, died (born 2/11/1838).
24/6/1909, Sarah Jewett,
US novelist, died (born 3/9/1849).
23/3/1909, John Davidson,
British writer, died (born 11/4/1857).
27/7/1908, Nancy
Hamilton, US author, was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
3/10/1908, Johnny
Burke, US author, was born in Antioch, California (died 25/2/1964 in
Mew York)
15/9/1908, John Collins,
English literary critic, died (born 26/3/1848).
9/9/1908, Cesare
Pavese, poet and novelist, was born.
10/8/1908, Louise
Moulton, US poet, died.
6/7/1908, Joel
Chandler Harris, US writer, died aged 60.
5/7/1908, Jonas
Lie, Norwegian novelist, died (born 6/11/1833).
1/6/1908, Louis Frechette, French Canadian
poet, died (born 16/11/1839).
28/5/1908, Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was born
in London.
8/5/1908, Ludovic Halevy,
French author, died (born 1/1/1834).
29/4/1908, Jack Williamson,
science fiction writer, was born (died 10/11/2006)
12/3/1908, Edmondo de
Amicis, Italian writer, died in Bordighera (born 21/10/1846 in
Oneglia).
26/2/1908, Johann
Kirchhoff, German scholarly writer, died.
25/1/1908, Louise de la
Ramee, English novelist
(pen name Ramee) died aged 67.
14/1/1908, Holger
Drachmann, Danish poet, died (born 9/10/1846).
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10/12/1907. Rudyard Kipling
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature,
the first time it had been awarded to an English writer.
28/11/1907, Alberto Moravia,
Italian novelist, was born (died 1990).
15/11/1907, Moncure Conway,
author, died in Paris (born 17/3/1832
in Virginia, USA).
29/10/1907, Gerald Massey,
English poet, died (born 29/5/1828).
12/9/1907, Louis Macneice,
Irish poet, was born (died 1963).
7/9/1907, Bogdan Hasdeu,
Romanian scholarly writer, died (born 1836).
26/7/1907, US author
Mark Twain
was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Oxford University.
21/7/1907, AD Hope,
poet, was born
20/6/1907. Lillian Hellman,
US author, was born (died 1984).
11/6/1907, Clovis Hugues,
French poet, died (born 3/11/1851).
18/5/1907, John Ingram,
Irish scholarly writer, died (born 7/7/1832).
6/5/1907, John Watson,
writer, died (born 3/11/1850).
13/5/1907, Daphne du
Maurier, English novelist, was born in London.
21/2/1907, W H Auden,
English poet, was born.
16/2/1907, Giosue Carducci,
Italian poet (born 27/7/1836) died.
3/2/1907, James A
Michener, novelist, was born.
26/1/1907, Henry Field,
US author, died (born 3/4/1822).
21/1/1907, Toivo Kauppinen,
Finnish writer, was born.
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9/12/1906, Ferdinand
Brunetiere, French writer, died (born 19/7/1849).
13/8/1906, Pearl Craigie,
US novelist, died (born 3/11/1867).
28/8/1906, John Betjeman,
poet, was born (died 1984).
20/6/1906, Catherine
Cookson, British writer,
was born.
23/5/1906, Henrik Ibsen,
Norwegian poet, died (born 20/3/1828).
13/4/1906, Samuel Beckett,
Irish playwright, was born.
23/3/1906, Thomas Harris,
US poet and preacher, died.
9/2/1906, Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and
novelist (born 27/6/1872 in Dayton, Ohio) died of tuberculosis. Son of a former
slave, his poetry did much to describe the everyday lives of Black Americans.
22/1/1906, George Holyoake,
English writer, died (born 13/4/1817).
21/12/1905, Anthony
Powell, English novelist, was born.
20/12/1905, Henry Harland,
US author, died (born 3/1861 in St Petersburg).
18/12/1905, George
Le Brunn, British author, died in London (born 1862)
12/12/1905, Francois
Meurice, French dramatist, died (born 7/2/1818).
9/11/1905, Erika
Mann, German-US author, was born in Munich, Germany (died 1969)
28/10/1905, Michael
Dragomirov, Russian military writer, died (born 8/11/1830).
20/10/1905, Ellery
Queen, writer, was born.
15/10/1905, CP
Snow, English novelist, was born (died 1980)
3/10/1905, Jose Heredia,
French poet, died (born 22/11/1842).
6/9/1905, Karl Heigel, German novelist,
died (born 25/3/1835).
22/8/1905, David
Monro, English classical writer, died (born 16/11/1836).
21/6/1905, Jean
Paul-Sartre, French dramatist and
novelist, was born in Paris.
20/6/1905, Lillian
Helman, US writer, was born (died 1984).
24/3/1905, Jules Verne,
French science fiction writer, died
in Amiens aged 77.
2/2/1905, Russian writer Maxim Gorky was released from prison.
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19/11/1904, Hans von Hopfen,
German poet, died (born 3/1/1835).
22/7/1904, Wilson Barrett,
playwright, died (born in Essex 18/2/1846).
2/7/1904, The Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, born 17/1/1860 in
Taganrog, died in Germany
whilst being treated for tuberculosis.
25/6/1904, Wilhelm
Jordan, German poet and novelist, died.
16/4/1904, Samuel
Smiles, Scottish writer, died aged 92.
24/3/1904, Sir Edwin
Arnold, British poet, died (born 10/6/1832).
2/3/1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel, author of children�s books, was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
28/1/1904, Karl Franzos,
German novelist, died (born 25/10/1848).
1/11/1904, George
Bernard Shaw�s play John
Bull�s Other Island had its premier.
28/12/1903, George Gissing,
English novelist, died (born 22/11/1857).
19/11/1903, Hugh
Scott, English novelist, died.
1/11/1903, Theodor Mommsen,
writer, died aged 87.
28/10/1903, British novelist Evelyn Waugh was born.
16/10/1903, Cecille
de Brunhoff, writer, was born.
15/7/1903, Walter Dumeaux
Edmonds, US novelist, was born in Booneville, New York.
25/6/1903, Birth of
the author George Orwell, in Motihari,
Bengal, India.� He was born as Eric Arthur
Blair.
5/3/1903, George
Henderson, British military writer, died (born 1854).
13/3/1903, Nikolaas Beets,
Dutch poet, died in Utrecht (born in Haarlem 13/9/1814).
27/2/1903, George Hill,
English writer, died (born 7/6/1835).
13/2/1903, Georges Simenon,
Belgian crime writer, was born.
9/2/1903, Sir Charles
Duffy, Irish writer, died (born 12/4/1816).
11/1/1903, South
African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton was born (died 1988)
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1902, Beatrix Potter�s first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was published.
25/10/1902, Frank Norris,
US novelist, died.
21/9/1902, Sir Allen Lane,
English publisher who founded Penguin books and brought about the paperback
revolution, was born.
20/9/1902, Stevie Smith,
poet and novelist, was born (died 1971)
2/9/1902, Edward
Egglestone, US author (born 10/12/1837 in Vevay, Indiana) died in
Lake George, New York.
21/7/1902, Joseph Kesselring,
US playwright, was born in New York City (died 1967)
17/7/1902, Christina Stead,
writer, was born.
18/6/1902, Samuel Butler,
English writer, died (born 4/12/1835).
16/5/1902, Carles Fages de
Climent, Catalonian writer, poet and journalist, was born in
Figueres (died 1968).
18/4/1902, Harry Owens,
US author, was born in Nebraska.
6/4/1902, FL Green,
British novelist, was born in Portsmouth, England (died 1953)
10/5/1902, George Grant,
scholarly writer, died (born 1835).
21/2/1902, Emil Holub,
Bohemian writer, died (born 7/10/1847)
10/2/1902, Armand Bernier,
Belgian poet, was born.
16/12/1901, Johann Duntzer,
German writer, died (born 12/7/1813).
11/10/1901, James Greenough,
US classical scholarly writer, died (born 4/5/1833).
2/9/1901, Andreas
Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet, was born (died 1975)
27/8/1901, Rudolf Haym,
German writer, died (born 5/10/1821).
9/7/1901, Barbara Cartland, British writer of romantic novels,
was born.
7/7/1901, Johanna Spyri,
writer, died.
10/6/1901, Robert Buchanan,
British novelist, died (born 18/8/1841).
9/6/1901, Sir Walter
Besant, English author, died in Hampstead, London (born in
Portsmouth 14/8/1836).
22/5/1901, Clarissa Scott
Delany, African-American poet, was born (died 1927)
11/5/1901, Rose Auslander,
German poet, was born (died 1988)
24/3/1901, Charlotte M
Yonge, novelist, died, aged 78.
13/2/1901, Lewis Grassic
Gibbon, Scottish novelist, was born (died 1935)
3/2/1901, Rosamund
Lehmann, novelist, was born (died 1900).
31/1/1901, Three Sisters, a play by Anton Chekhov,
premiered in Moscow.
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30/11/1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde (born Dublin
1854) died in poverty in Paris under the pseudonym Sebastian Medmoth. Wilde�s stage and literary career ended in
1895 when the Marquess of Queensbury, angered
by Wilde�s friendship with his son, accused Wilde of sodomy. Wilde sued for libel
but lost the case and was at once prosecuted for homosexuality. He served two
years in gaol 1895-97 before fleeing to France and poverty.
3/10/1900, Thomas Wolfe, US novelist, was born (died 1938).
24/7/1900, Zelda Fitzgerald, writer, was born.
29/6/1900, Antoine de
Saint Exupery, author of The
Little Prince, was born.
28/5/1900, Sir George
Grove, English writer on music, died (born 13/8/1820).
2/4/1900, Roberto Arlt,
Argentine writer, was born in Buenos Aires (died 1942)
30/3/1900, Archibald
Forbes, British military writer, died (born 17/4/1838).
6/2/1900, Sir William
Hunter, British writer, died (born 15/7/1840).
23/1/1900, Richard Dixon,
English poet, died (born 5/5/1833).
16/11/1899, Julius Busch,
German publicist, died (born 13/2/1821)
24/10/1899, Grant Allen,
English author, died in Hindhead (born 24/2/1848 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
13/10/1899, Philip Colomb,
English writer, died (born 29/5/1831).
27/8/1899, Emmanuel Hiel,
Belgian-Dutch writer, died (born 5/1834).
21/7/1899, Robert
Ingersoll, US author, died (born 11/8/1833).
7/6/1899, Augustin Daly,
US playwright, died (born 20/7/1838).
1/6/1899, Klaus Groth,
German poet, died (born 24/4/1819).
22/4/1899, Vladimir
Nabakov, writer, was born.
1/3/1899, Andrew Boyd,
Scottish author, died in Bournemouth (born 3/11/1825).
20/2/1899, Ernst Lange,
German novelist, died (born 21/2/1813).
21/1/1899, Rudi Blesh,
US author, was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma (died 25/8/1985 in Gilmarton, New
Hampshire).
17/1/1899, Nevil Shute,
English novelist, was born in
Ealing, London.
29/11/1898, CS Lewis,
writer, was born.
28/11/1898, Konrad Meyer,
Swiss poet, died (born 11/10/1825).
19/10/1898, Harold Frederic,
Anglo-US novelist, died (born 19/8/1856).
20/9/1898, Theodor Fontane,
German novelist, died (30/12/1819).
9/9/1898, Stephane
Mallarme, French poet, died (born 18/3/1842).
14/7/1898, Eliza Linton,
English novelist, died (born 10/8/1822).
22/5/1898, Edward Bellamy,
US writer died in Chicopee Falls (born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts
25/3/1850).
11/2/1898, Ferdinand Fabre,
French novelist, died (born 1830).
10/2/1898, Bertold Brecht,
writer, was born.
18/1/1898, Henry Liddell,
English writer, died (born 6/2/1811).
14/1/1898, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, died in Guildford, Surrey.
2/1/1898, Sir Edward Bond, English
librarian, died (born in Hanwell 31/12/1815).
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17/12/1897, Alphonse Daudet,
French novelist, died (born 13/5/1840).
7/10/1897, Francis
Newman, English scholarly writer, died (born 27/6/1805).
11/8/1897, Enid Blyton,
author of children�s books, was born in
Dulwich.
6/8/1897, Samuel
Laing, British author, died (born 12/10/1810).
26/5/1897, Bram Stoker�s
Dracula was first published.
11/3/1897, Henry Drummond,
Scottish scholarly writer, died (born 17/8/1851).
26/11/1896, Mathilde Blind,
English author, died (born in Mannheim 21/3/1841).
8/10/1896, George du
Maurier, English writer, died (born 1834).
24/9/1896, F Scott
Fitzgerald, US author,
was born.
11/9/1896, Francis Child,
scholarly writer, died (born 1/2/1825).
6/9/1896, Sir Joseph
Crowe, art writer, died (born 25/10/1828).
24/8/1896, Phil Baker,
US author, was born in Philadelphia (died 30/11/1963 in Copenhagen).
11/6/1896, Sir George Dasent,
English writer, died born 22/5/1817).
11/5/1896, Henry Bunner,
US writer, died (born 3/8/1855).
29/4/1896, Jean Haureau,
French writer, died (born 1812).
28/3/1896, Elizabeth
Charles, English author, died (born 2/1/1828).
26/2/1896, Arsene Houssaye,
French novelist, died (born 28/3/1815).
18/2/1896, Andre Breton,
writer, was born.
14/1/1896, John Dos Passos,
US writer, was born in Chicago,
Illinois.
11/1/1896, Joao de Deus,
Portuguese poet, died (born 8/3/1830).
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11/12/1895, Jean Montegut,
French writer, died (born 14/6/1825).
8/12/1895, Theodore la
Villemarque, French writer, died (born 6/7/1815).
27/11/1895, Alexandre Dumas
II, novelist, died (born 27/7/1824)
22/11/1895, John de Tabley,
English poet, died (born 26/4/1835).
4/11/1895, Eugene Field,
US poet, died (born 2/9/1850).
22/10/1895, Ruggero Bonghi,
Italian writer, died (born in Naples 20/3/1828).
7/10/1895, William Wetmore
Story, US poet, died (born 12/2/1819).
24/7/1895, Robert Graves,
writer, was born.
30/4/1895, Gustav Freytag,
German novelist, died (born 13/7/1816)
16/3/1895, Corney Grain,
British author, died in London (born 1844)
2/3/1895, Stuart Blackie,
Scottish writer, died in Edinburgh (born in Glasgow 28/7/1809).
14/2/1895, Oscar Wilde�s
final play, The Importance of Being
Earnest, opened in London.
11/1/1895, Thomas Hake,
English poet, died (born 10/3/1809).
29/12/1894, Christina
Rossetti, English poet, died (born 5/12/1830).
8/12/1894, James Thurber,
author, was born in Columbus, Ohio.
3/12/1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island,
died.
19/10/1894, James Darmesteter, French author, died (born 28/3/1849).
14/10/1894, e e cummings, poet, was born.
26/7/1894, Aldous Huxley,
novelist, was born.
18/7/1894, Charles Leconte,
French poet, died (born 22/10/1818).
5/7/1894, Sir Austin
Layard, British author, died.
28/6/1894, Alice DG Miller,
US screenwriter, was born (died 24/7/1985).
5/6/1894, Edward Capern,
English poet, died (born 21/1/1819).
4/6/1894, Wilhelm Freund,
German scholarly writer, died (born 27/1/1806).
14/5/1894, Henry Morley,
British writer, died (born 15/9/1822).
29/4/1894, Augusta Drane,
English writer, died (born 29/12/1823).
3/2/1894, George Childs,
US publisher, died (born 12/5/1829).
8/2/1894, Robert
Ballantyne, writer, died in Rome (born in Edinburgh 24/4/1825).
22/12/1893, William Lloyd,
English writer, died (born 11/3/1813).
2/12/1893, William Gaxton,
US actor, was born in San Francisco (died 2/2/1963 in New York)
10/7/1893, Henry
Nettleship, English scholarly writer, died.
7/7/1893, Miroslav Krleza,
writer, was born.
6/7/1893, Henri
Maupassant, French novelist, died (born 5/8/1850).
17/6/1893, Thomas Mozley,
English writer, died.
14/6/1893, Jakob
Frohschammer, German scholarly writer, died (born 6/1/1821).
18/3/1893, Wilfred Owen,
poet, was born.
1/3/1893, William Minto,
Scottish writer, died (born 10/10/1845).
23/1/1893, Phillips Brooks,
US author, died (born 13/12/1835).
15/1/1893, Frances Kemble,
author, died (born 27/11/1809)
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12/12/1892, Sir John Burke,
British genealogical writer, author of Burke�s
Peerage, died (born 5/1/1814).
21/10/1892, Anne
Edgren-Leffler, Swedish author, died (born 1/10/1849).
11/10/1892, Xavier Marmier,
French author, died (born 24/6/1809).
6/10/1892, Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet
laureate from 1850, died at Aldworth, Surrey. He was born on
6/8/1809.
12/9/1892, Alfred A Knopf,
publisher, was born.
31/8/1892, George Curtis,
US writer, died (born 24/2/1824).
3/8/1892, Johann Nauck,
German scholarly writer, died (born 18/9/1822).
30/7/1892, Joseph Hubner,
Austrian writer, died (born 26/11/1811).
20/7/1892, Leon Cladel,
French novelist, died (born 13/3/1835).
19/4/1892, Friedrich
Bodenstedt, German author, died in Wiesbaden (born in Hanover
22/4/1819).
26/3/1892, Walt Whitman,
poet, died
9/3/1892, Vita Sackville
West, writer, was born.
17/2/1892, James Frederick
Hanley, US author, was born in Indiana (died 8/2/1942 in Douglaston,
Long Island.
5/2/1892, Emilie Flygare,
Swedish novelist, died (born 8/8/1807).
2/2/1892, Clarence
Gaskill, US author, was born in Philadelphia (died 29/4/1947 in Fort
Hill, new York)
26/12/1891, Henry Miller,
writer, was born.
19/12/1891, John Morton,
English playwright, died (born 3/1/1811).
24/11/1891, Edward Lytton,
English poet, died (born 8/11/1831).
19/11/1891, Gregor Csiky,
Hungarian dramatist, died (born 8/12/1842).
10/11/1891, Arthur Rimbaud,
poet, died
28/9/1891, Herman Melville,
US author, died.
12/8/1891, James Lowell,
US author, died
1/4/1891, Pauline Craven,
French author, died (born 12/4/1808).
26/2/1891, Fortune du
Boisgobey, French fiction writer (born in Granville 11/9/1824) died.
6/11/1890, Bentley
Collingwood Hillier, British author, was born in Scarborough (died
19/12/1968 in London)
13/10/1890, William Belknap,
US politician, died in Washington DC (born in Newburgh, New York, 22/9/1829).
29/9/1890, Jean Karr,
French novelist, died (born 24/11/1808).
18/9/1890, Dion Boucicault,
Irish playwright, died in New York (born in Dublin 26/12/1822).
15/9/1890, Agatha Christie,
crime writer, was born in Torquay,
Devon, as Agatha
Mary Clarissa.� (died
12/1/1976).
2/8/1890, Louise
Ackermann, French
poet (born 30/11/1813) died.
15/7/1890, Gottfried
Keller, German novelist, died (born 19/7/1819).
27/4/1890, William Blades,
English writer, died in Sutton, Surrey (was born in Clapham, London 5/12/1824).
29/3/1890, Armand
Pontmartin, French writer (born 16/7/1811) died.
10/2/1890, Boris
Pasternak, Russian writer, author of Dr Zhivago, was born
in Moscow.
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24/12/1889, Charles MacKay,
Scottish writer, died (born 27/3/1814).
23/12/1889, Constance Naden,
English author, died (born 24/1/1858).
21/12/1889, Eugene
Deslongchamps, writer, died
12/12/1889, Robert Browning,
English poet, died.
10/12/1889, Ludwig
Anzengruber, Austrian dramatist, died in Vienna (born 29/11/1839 in
Vienna)
18/11/1889, William
Allingham, Irish poet, died in Hampstead, London (born 19/3/1824 in
Ballyshannon, Donegal).
26/10/1889, Carel Cobet,
Dutch scholarly writer, died (born 28/11/1813).
25/10/1889, Guillaume
Augier, French dramatist, died in Croissy (born 17/9/1820 in
Valence, Drome).
22/9/1889, Harold Bulwer
Farnie, British playwright, died in London.
10/9/1889, Amy Levy,
English novelist, died.
2/9/1889, Samuel Austin
Allibone, US author, died in Lucerne, Switzerland (born 17/4/1816 in
Philadelphia Pennsylvania).
15/8/1889, James Albery,
English dramatist, died (born 4/5/1838 in London).
5/8/1889, Fanny :Lewald,
German author, died.
25/7/1888, Herman Bonitz,
German scholarly writer, died in Berlin (born in Saxony 29/7/1814).
13/7/1889, Robert
Hamerling, Austrian poet, died (born 24/3/1830).
5/7/1889, Jean Cocteau, poet, was born.
16/5/1889, Henry Chandler,
scholarly writer, died (born 31/1/1828). 16/5/1889).
23/4/1889, Jules Barbey, French writer, died in Paris (born 2/11/1808).
6/4/1889, Benjamin Kennedy, English
scholarly writer, died (born 6/11/1804).
21/1/1889, Karl Elze, German literary writer, died (born 22/5/1821).
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15/12/1888, Maxwell Anderson, US playwright, was born in Atlantic,
Pennsylvania (died 28/2/1959 in Stamford, Connecticut).
25/11/1888, Josef Jirecek, Czech scholarly writer, died (born 9/10/1825).
26/9/1888, Poet T S Eliot was born � see 4/1/1965.
11/5/1888, Irving Berlin, US
songwriter, was born as Israel Baline in Tyumen, Russia.
26/4/1888, Anita Loos, writer, was
born.
6/3/1888, Louisa Alcott, US author, died (born 29/11/1832)
26/2/1888, James Morison, British
author, died (born 20/4/1832).
30/1/1888, Edward Lear,
English
author and artist, who wrote the Book
of Nonsense, died in San Remo, Italy.
23/1/1888, Eugene Labiche,
French dramatist, died (born 5/5/1815).
2/11/1887, Alfred Domett,
English poet, died (born 20/5/1811).
12/10/1887, Dinah Craik,
English novelist, died (born 20/4/1826).
25/7/1887, Henry Mayhew,
English author, died.
13/7/1887, Elme Carlo,
French scholarly writer, died (born 4/3/1826).
22/6/1887, Eugenie John,
German novelist, died.
16/6/1887, Roswell
Hitchcock, US writer, died (born 15/8/1817).
31/5/1887, Thomas Baynes,
English writer, died (born in Wellington, Somerset 24/3/1823).
5/5/1887, James Grant,
British novelist, died (born 1/8/1822).
19/3/1887, Joseph
Kraszewski, Polish novelist, died (born 28/7/1812).
3/3/1887, Rupert Brooke,
poet, was born.
19/2/1887, Edward Dekker,
Dutch writer, died (born 2/3/1820).
13/2/1887, Philip Marston,
English poet, died (born 13/8/1850).
11/2/1887, Francois
Laurent, Belgian legal writer, died.
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12/12/1886, Johan Madvig,
Danish scholarly writer, died (born 7/8/1904).
6/11/1886, Gustave Kahn,
US author, was born in Coblenz (died 8/10/1941 in Beverly Hills, California)
26/9/1886, Clement Ingleby,
English writer on Shakespeare, died (born 29/10/1823).
9/8/1886, Sir Samuel
Ferguson, Irish poet, died (born 10/3/1810).
15/5/1886, Emily Dickinson,
US poet, died in Amherst,
Massachusetts.
13/4/1886, Anna
Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist, died in The Hague (born in
Alkmaar 16/9/1812)
10/2/1886, Henry Bradshaw,
scholarly writer, died (born in London 2/2/1831)
9/1/1886, James Ferguson,
Scottish architectural writer, died (born 22/1/1808).
24/12/1885, Louis Gachard,
Belgian writer, died (born 12/3/1800).
30/10/1885, Ezra Pound,
poet, was born.
11/10/1885, Francois Mariac,
French writer, was born.
11/9/1885, DH Lawrence,
author of Lady Chatterley�s Lover, was born.
1/9/1885, Emile Egger,
Frenchy scholarly writer, died (born 18/7/1813).
11/8/1885, Richard
Houghton, English poet, died (born 19/6/1809).
22/5/1885, Victor Hugo,
French
poet and novelist, author of Les
Miserables, died in Paris aged 83.
13/5/1885, Juliana Ewing,
writer of children�s stories, died (born 1841).
30/4/1885, Jens Jacobsen,
Danish writer, died (born 7/4/1847).
17/4/1885, Isak Dinesen,
writer, was born.
10/4/1885, Sigmund Spaeth,
US author, was born in Philadelphia (died 11/11/1965 in New York)
18/2/1885, Mark
Twain�s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
was published.
17/2/1885, John Campbell,
Gaelic scholar died (born 29/12/1822)..
19/1/1885, Lady Georgiana
Fullerton, English novelist, died (born 23/9/1812).
16/1/1885, Edmond About,
French novelist (born 14/2/1828) died.
1/1/1885, Andrew
Findlater, Scottish writer, died (born 1810).
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30/11/1884, Sir Alexander
Grant, British scholarly writer, died (born 13/9/1826).
31/10/1884, Maria
Bashkirtseff, Russian writer, died (born in Gavrontsi 23/11/1860).
19/10/1884, Karl Hillebrand,
German author, died (born 17/9/1829).
16/10/1884, Paul Lacroix,
French author, died (born 27/4/1806).
22/8/1884, Henry Bohn,
British publisher, died in Twickenham (born in London 4/1/1796).
16/8/1884, Gutierrez
Garcia, Spanish dramatist, died (born 5/7/1812).
16/7/1884, Manuel Mila,
Spanish scholarly writer, died (born 4/5/1818).
6/4/1884, Emanuel Geibel,
German poet, died (born 17/10/1815).
19/3/1884, Elias Lonnrot,
Finnish writer, died (born 9/4/1802).
26/2/1884, Charles Badham, English scholarly bwriter,
died 26/2/1884 in Sydney, Australia (born 18/7/1813 in Ludlow, Shropshire).
11/2/1884, Thomas Chenery,
scholarly writer, died (born 1826).
2/2/1884, Abraham Hayward,
English writer, died (born 22/11/1801).
13/12/1883, Pierre Laprade,
French poet, died (born 13/1/1812).
21/9/1883, Conrad Bursian,
German scholarly writer, died (born 14/11/1830).
17/9/1883, John Collier,
English writer, died (born 11/1/1789).
10/9/1883, Hendrik
Conscience, Flemish writer, died (born 3/12/1818).
3/9/1883, Ivan Turgenev,
writer, died
25/7/1883, Frederick
Maning, New Zealand writer, died.
3/7/1883, Franz Kafka,
Czech poet and playwright, was born.
20/6/1883,� Gustave Aimarde, French novelist, died
20/6/1883 in Paris (born 13/9/1818 in Paris).
6/5/1883, Jose Ortega y
Gasset, writer, was born.
10/1/1883, Aleksei Tolstoy,
writer, was born.
6/1/1883, Khalil Gibran,
writer, was born.
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13/11/1882, Johann Kinkel,
German poet, died (born 11/8/1815).
12/10/1882, Arthur Burnell,
scholarly writer on ancient Sanskrit, died (born 1840).
5/10/1882, Carl Halm,
German scholarly writer, died (born 5/4/1809).
23/7/1882, George Marsh,
US scholarly writer, died (born 15/3/1801).
1/6/1882, John Drinkwater,
poet and dramatist,
was born.
11/5/1882, John Brown,
Scottish author, died (born 22/9/1810).
30/4/1882, Ramon de
Mesonero Romanos, Spanish writer, died.
27/4/1882, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, US poet and essayist, died aged 78 in Concord.
7/4/1882, Denis MacCarthy,
Irish poet, died (born 26/5/1817).
8/2/1882, Berthold
Auerbach, German novelist, died in Cannes (born 28/2/1812 in
Nordstetten).
25/1/1882, Virginia Woolf,
writer, was born.
18/1/1882, A A Milne
English writer of children�s books
and creator of Winnie the Pooh, was
born in St John�s Wood, London.
9/1/1882, Richard Dana,
US writer, died (born 1/8/1815).
3/1/1882, William
Ainsworth, English novelist (born 4/2/1805) died.
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24/12/1881, Leonard Bacon,
writer, died 24/12/1881 in New Haven, Connecticut (born 19/2/1802 in Detroit,
Michigan)
17/12/1881, Lewis Morgan,
US ethnological writer, died.
15/11/1881, William Greg,
English essayist, died (born 1809),
7/11/1881, John Machale,
Irish writer, died.
12/10/1881, Josiah Holland,
US writer, died (born 24/7/1819).
25/9/1881,
Franz Ahrens,
German scholarly writer (born 6/6/1809) died.
7/9/1881, Sidney Lanier,
US poet, died (born 3/2/1842).
2/8/1881, Marcus Clarke,
US author, died (born 24/4/1846).
20/7/1881, Theodor Bergk,
German scholarly writer, died in Ragatz, Switzerland (born in Leipzig
3/5/1797).
8/7/1881, Henry Coxe,
English scholarly writer died (born 20/9/1811).
1/7/1881, Ventura Ruiz
Aguilera, Spanish poet, died in Madrid.
26/6/1881, Theodor Benfrey,
German writer, died in Gottingen (born neat Gottingen 28/1/1809).
26/5/1881, Jakob Bernays,
German writer, died in Bonn (born in Hamburg 11/9/1824).
15/5/1881, Franz
Dinglestedt, German poet, died (born 30/6/1814).
3/5/1881, George Banks,
British writer, died in London (born in Birmingham 2/3/1821).
24/4/1881, James Fields,
US author, died (born 31/12/1817).
5/2/1881, Thomas Carlyle,
Scottish essayist, died at 5 Cheyne
Row, Chelsea, London.
28/1/1881, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky died (born in Moscow, 30/10/1821,
son of a surgeon) . His funeral cortege on 31/1/1881 was followed by 30,000
people. He wrote, amongst others, The
Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.
16/11/1880, Alexander Blok,
poet, was born.
20/10/1880, Lydia Child,
US author, died (born 11/2/1802).
23/9/1880, Geraldine
Jewsbury, English writer, died (born 1812).
5/8/1880, William
Kingston, English novelist, died (born 28/2/2814).
27/6/1880, Helen Keller,
author, was born.
8/5/1880, Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, died (born 12/12/1821).
16/4/1880, Edward Kenealy,
Irish author died (born 2/7/1819).
22/3/1880, Kenelm Digby,
English writer, died (born 1800).
12/2/1880, Karl Holtei,
German poet, died (born 24/1/1798).
12/1/1880, Ida Hahn-Hahn,
German author, died (born 22/6/1805).
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26/12/1879, William Dixon,
English author, died (born 30/6/1821).
31/10/1879, Jacob Abbott,
US writer of books for children, died in Farmington, Maine.
2/10/1879, US poet Wallace Stevens was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania.
21/6/1879, Henry Creamer,
US author, was born.
7/5/1879, Charles de
Coster, Belgian writer, died (20/8/1827).
20/3/1879, Johann Huber,
writer, died (born 18/8/1830)
2/3/1879, Jules Bastide,
French writer, died (born in Paris 2/11/1800).
21/1/1879, George Hillard,
US author, died (born 22/9/1808).
1/1/1879, E M Forster,
English
novelist, was born.
16/12/1878, Karl Gutzkow,
German novelist, died (born 17/3/1811).
6/11/1878, William Clark,
writer on Shakespeare, died (born 3/1821).
18/10/1878, David Laing,
Scottish writer, died (born 20/4/1793).
13/8/1878, George
Gilfillan, Scottish author, died (born 30/1/1813).
17/7/1878, Aleardo Aleardi,
Italian poet, died.
9/6/1878, Karl Lehrs,
German scholarly writer, died (born 2/6/1802).
6/1/1878, The US poet Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.
21/11/1877, Endre Ady,
Hungarian
poet (died 27/1/1919) was born.
15/11/1877, Pierre Lanfrey,
French writer, died (born 26/10/1838)
9/11/1877, Allama Muhammad
Iqbal, poet, was born.
28/10/1877, Julia Kavanagh,
British novelist, died.
16/10/1877, Theodore
Barriere, playwright, died in Paris (born in Paris 1823)
6/7/1877, Friedrich
Hacklander, German novelist, died (born 1/11/1816).
2/7/1877, Hermann Hesse,
writer, was born.
26/5/1877, Sir James
Kay-Shuttleworth, English educational writer, died (born 20/7/804).
30/4/1877, Alice B Toklas,
writer, was born.
10/4/1877, Andrew Halliday,
British writer, died (born 1830).
7/4/1877, Spanish
novelist Cecilia
Larrea (Fernan Caballero) died (born 24/12/1796).
13/3/1877, Charles Clarke,
British writer, died (born 15/12/1787)
6/3/1877, Joseph Autran,
French poet, died in Marseilles (born 20/6/1813 in Marseilles).
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25/9/1876, Adolf
Glasbrenner, German satirical writer, was born (died 25/9/1876).
28/7/1876, Mortimer
Collins, English writer, died (born 29/6/1827).
25/7/1876, Robert Childers,
scholarly writer on the Orient, died (born 1838).
14/7/1876, James Henry,
Irish scholarly writer, died (born 13/12/1798).
8/6/1876, George Sand,
author, died
4/6/1875, Eduard Morike,
German poet, died (born 8/9/1804).
29/5/1876, Friedrich Diaz,
German scholarly writer, died (born 15/3/1794).
24/5/1876, Henry Kingsley,
English novelist, died.
12/5/1876, Henri Esquiros,
French writer, died (born 23/5/1812).
25/4/1876, Thomas Aird,
Scottish poet, died in Dumfries (born 28/8/1802 in Bowden, Roxburghshire).
17/4/1876, Ian Hay,
British author, was born.
18/3/1876, Ferdinand
Feiligrath, German poet, died (born 17/8/1810).
5/3/1876, Marie Agoult,
French author (born 31/12/1805 in Frankfort on Main) died in Paris.
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29/11/1875, Thomas Key,
English scholarly writer, died (born 20/3/1799).
10/10/1875, Aleksey
Konstantinovich Tolstoy, novelist and poet, died.
1/9/1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, was
born in Chicago. He never visited Africa
where his stories were set.
19/8/1875, Hermann Ebel, German
scholarly writer, died (born 10/5/1820).
17/8/1875, Wilhelm Beek, German
scholarly writer, died in Cape Town.
15/8/1875, Robert Hawker, English
poet, died (born 3/12/1803).
4/8/1875, Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish
writer famous for his fairy stories,
died aged 70.
6/6/1875, Thomas Mann,
writer, was born.
14/5/1875, Gottfried
Bernhardy, scholarly writer, died (born in Landsberg 20/3/1800).
4/5/1875, Georg Ewald,
German scholarly writer, died (born 16/11/1803).
7/4/1875, Georg Herwegh,
German poet, died (born 31/5/1817).
23/1/1875, Charles
Kingsley, English novelist, died (born 12/6/1819).
3/12/1874, Arthur Wimperis,
British author, was born in London (died 14/10/1953 in London)
20/11/1874, Tom Hood,
English writer, died (born 19/1/1835).
26/10/1874, Carl Cornelius, German
poet, died (born 24/12/1824).
23/10/1874, Abraham Geiger, German
scholarly writer, died (born 24/5/1810).
3/9/1874, Hans Gabelentz, German scholarly
writer, died (born 13/10/1807).
22/8/1874, Sydney Dobell,
English poet, died (born 5/4/1824).
19/6/1874, Jules Janin,
French writer, died (born 16/2/1804).
29/5/1874, G K Chesterton,
English writer, born.
4/4/1874, Charles Beule,
French writer, died (born in Saumur 29/6/1826),
26/3/1874, Robert Frost,
poet, was born.
8/2/1874, Herman Merivale,
English writer, died.
5/2/1874, Moritz Haupt,
German scholarly writer, died (born 27/2/1808).
25/1/1874, William Somerset
Maugham, writer, was born.
24/1/1874, Adam Black,
Scottish book publisher, died (born in Edinburgh 20/2/1784).
19/1/1874, August Hoffmann,
German writer, died (born 2/4/1798).
16/1/1874, Robert William
Service, Canadian poet, was born.
7/1/1874, Henry Bell,
Scottish writer, died (born in Glasgow 8/11/1803).
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8/11/1873, Manuel Breton
de los Herreros, Spanish dramatist, died (born 19/12/1796).
27/10/1873, Ernest-Aime
Feydeau, French writer, died (born 16/3/1821).
10/10/1873, Hermann Kurz,
German author, died.
4/10/1873, Margaret Gatty,
English writer, died (born 1809),
28/9/1873, Emile Gaboriau,
French novelist, died (born 9/11/1833).
26/9/1873, Julius Benedix,
German dramatist, died in Leipzig (born in Leipzig 21/1/1811).
5/8/1873, Edward Cope,
English scholarly writer, died (born 28/7/1818).
18/7/1873, Victor Chasles,
French writer, died (born 8/11/1798).
13/7/1873, Caroline Clive,
English authoress, died (born 1801).
29/6/1873, Michael Dutt,
Indian poet, died (born 25/1/1824).
27/5/1873, Pierre Lebrun,
French poet, died (born 29/11/1785).
23/4/1873, Wolfgang Menzel,
German poet, died.
16/4/1873, Joseph Glatigny,
French poet, died (born 21/5/1839).
9/3/1873, Charles Knight,
English author, died (born 15/3/1791).
2/2/1873, Gertrudis Gomez,
Spanish novelist, died (born 23/3/1814).
18/1/1873, Edward Lytton,
English novelist, died.
10/1/1873, Francesco
Dall�Ongaro, Italian writer, died (born 1808).
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1872, Through the Looking
Glass was published by Lewis Carroll.
23/12/1872, Theophile
Gautier, French poet, died (born 31/8/1811).
22/12/1872, George Catlin,
US scholarly writer, died (born 1796).
29/11/1872, Johann Baehr, German scholarly writer, died in
Heidelberg, 29/11/1872 (born in Darmstadt 13/6/1798).
14/11/1872, James Hadley,
US scholarly writer, died (born 30/3/1821).
3/11/1872, Vladimir Dahl,
Russian author, died (born 1802).
2/10/1872, Francis Lieber,
US-German writer, died (born 18/3/1800).
8/9/1872, Paolo Guidici,
Italian writer, died in Tonbridge, England (born 1812).
2/9/1872, Nikolai
Grundtvig, Danish writer, died (born 8/9/1783).
15/7/1872, Harry Clifton,
British author, died in Shepherd�s Bush, London
27/6/1872, Paul Dunbar,
US author, was born (died 8/2/1906).
23/5/1872, Sir Henry
Bulwer, British author, died (born 13/2/1801).
13/5/1872, Moritz Hartmann,
German poet, died (born 15/10/1821).
6/2/1872, Auguste Gratry,
French author, died (born 10/3/1805).
31/1/1872, Zane Grey,
American Western writer, was born.
21/1/1872, Franz
Grillparzer, Austrian poet, was born (died 21/1/1872).
9/1/1872, Henry Halleck,
US writer, died (born 1815).
16/12/1871, Willibald
Alexis, novelist (born 26/9/1798 in Breslau) died in Arnstadt,
Thuringia.
10/9/1871, Richard Bentley,
book publisher, died (born in London 1794).
31/7/1871, Phoebe Cary,
US poet, (born 4/9/1824) died.
10/7/1871, Marcel Proust,
writer, was born.
22/5/1871, Eligius
Munch-Bellinghausen, Austrian poet, died.
27/4/1871, Charles Kock,
French novelist, died (born 21/5/1793).
22/4/1871, Melchior Meyr,
German writer, died (born 28/6/1810).
3/4/1871, Gustave
Flourens, French writer, died (born 4/8/1838).
17/3/1871, Robert Chambers,
Scottish author, died (born 10/7/1802).
12/2/1871, Alice Cary,
US poet, died (born 26/4/1820).
2/2/1871, Jozsef Eotvos,
Hungarian writer, died (born 13/9/1813).
20/1/1871, Peirre Ponson
du Terrail, French
romantic writer (born 8/7/1829) died.
12/1/1871, Henry Alford, English scholarly writer (born
7/10/1810 in London) died in Canterbury,
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22/12/1870, Gustavo Becquer,
Spanish writer, died in Madrid (born in Seville 17/2/1836).
18/12/1870, Thomas
Doubleday, English author, died (born 2/1790)
5/12/1870, Alexandre Dumas,
French novelist, died (born 24/7/1802).
12/11/1870, Bogumil Goltz,
German writer, died (born 20/3/1801).
1/11/1870, Stephen Crane,
US writer, was born (died 5/6/1900).
20/7/1870, Lucien Anatole
Prevost-Paradol, French writer, born 8/8/1829, died of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
5/7/1870, Gustav Flugel,
German writer on the Orient, died (born 18/2/1802).
24/6/1870, Adam Gordon,
Australian poet, died (born 1833).
Charles Dickens
9/6/1870, Charles Dickens, author,
born 7/2/1812 at Landport, Portsmouth, died at Godshill, near Rochester, Kent,
of a brain haemorrhage the previous evening.
2/12/1867, English author Charles
Dickens drew large crowds in New York to his readings of his novels
there.
9/6/1865, Charles
Dickens was involved in a train crash at Staplehurst in Kent. He had
to return to the wreckage to salvage the manuscript for a part of the story Our Mutual Friend.
20/4/1859, Charles
Dickens� novel A Tale of Two
Cities was published.
7/8/1854, Charles
Dickens� 10th book, Hard
Times, was published in entirety.
12/9/1853, Charles
Dickens� 9th book, Bleak
House, was published in entirety.
14/11/1850, Charles
Dickens� 8th book, David
Copperfield, was published in entirety.
12/4/1848, Charles
Dickens� 7th book, Dombey
and Son, was published in entirety.
16/7/1844, Charles Dickens� 6th
book, The Life and Adventures of Martin
Chuzzlewit, was published in entirety.
15/12/1841, Charles
Dickens� 4th and 5th books, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, were published in
entirety.
23/10/1839, Charles
Dickens� 3rd book, The
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, was published in entirety.
9/11/1838, Charles
Dickens� 2nd book, The
Adventures of Oliver Twist, was published in entirety.
17/11/1837, Charles
Dickens� 1st book, The
Pickwick Papers, was published in entirety.
5/2/1824, Charles Dickens,
then aged 12, was sent out to work labelling shoe polish bottles.
7/2/1812, Author Charles Dickens
was born in Old Commercial Road, Landport, Portsmouth, the son of a clerk in
the navy pay office.
24/4/1870, Louisa Costello,
authoress, died (born 1799).
17/4/1870, Easter
Sunday. Ray
Stannard Baker, US author, was born in Lansing, Michigan (died
12/7/1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts.
16/3/1870, Henry Dixon,
English sports writer, died (born 16/5/1822).
25/2/1870, Henrik Hertz,
Danish poet, died (born 25/8/1798).
21/1/1870, Alexander
Hertzen, Russian author, died (born 1812).
18/1/1870, Samuel Bailey,
British author (born in Sheffield 1791) died.
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29/10/1869, Emile Descdhamps,
French poet, died (born 20/2/1791).
23/10/1869, John Conington,
English classical writer, died (born 10/8/1825).
10/8/1869, Laurence Binyon,
English poet, was born in Lancaster.
18/7/1869, Louis Bouilhet,
French poet, died in Rouen (born in Cany 27/5/1822).
14/7/1869, Lucie
Duff-Gordon, writer, died (born 24/6/1821)
3/6/1869, John Broughton,
English writer, died (born 27/6/1786).
28/2/1869, Alphonse
Lamartine, French poet and writer, died (born 21/10/1790).
30/1/1869, William Carleton,
Irish novelist, died (born 4/3/1794).
20/1/1869, Carl Gottling,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19/1/1793).
15/1/1869, Sir Henry Ellis,
writer, died (born 29/11/1777)
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8/12/1868, Norman Douglas,
British writer (died in Capri, Italy, 9/2/1952) was born in Deeside, Scotland.
17/10/1868, Bernhard Beskow,
Swedish dramatist, died (born 10/4/1796).
25/8/1868, Jacob van
Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist, died.
4/8/1868, Jacques Boucher,
French writer, died in Abbeville (born in Rethel 10/9/1788).
6/7/1868, Samuel Lover,
Irish novelist, died (born 24/2/1797).
25/5/1868, Rene Weil
(Romain Coolus), French dramatist, was born in Rennes.
7/4/1868, Thomas McGee,
Canadian writer, died.
22/2/1868, Ren Shields,
US writer, was born in Chicago (died 25/10/1913 in Massapequa, New York)
23/1/1868, Janos Erdelyi,
Hungarian poet, died (born 1814).
19/11/1867, Fitz-Greene
Halleck, US poet, died (born 8/7/1790).
14/11/1867, Jacques Brunet,
French writer, died (born 2/11/1780).
23/10/1867, Franz Bopp,
German scholarly writer, died (born in Mainz 14/7/1791).
10/10/1867, Julius Mosen,
German writer, died.
31/8/1867, Charles Baudelaire, French poet, died in Paris
(born in Paris 9/4/1821).
23/8/1867, Auguste
Barthelemy, French poet, died in Marseilles (born 1796).
16/8/1867, Friedrich Haase,
German scholarly writer, died (4/1/1808).
4/8/1867, John Galsworthy,
English novelist, was born.
27/5/1867, Enoch Arnold
Bennett, British
novelist, was born.
12/4/1867, Robert Bell,
Irish writer, died (born in Cork 16/1/1800).
2/10/1866, Carl Buck,
US scholarly writer, was born.
21/9/1866, Author H G Wells was born at Bromley, Kent.�
He was the son of a professional cricketer.
14/9/1866, Leon Gozlan,
French novelist, died (born 1/9/1806).
27/8/1866, Eugene de Bully,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Paris 8/11/1806).
6/8/1866, Christian Fahlcrantz, Swedish
author, died (born 30/8/1790).
28/7/1866, Beatrix Potter,
author and illustrator of children�s books, and creator of Peter Rabbit,
was born in South Kensington, London.
18/5/1866, Francis
Mahony, Irish author, died.
6/5/1866, Henry
Blossom, US author, was born in St Louis, Missouri (died 23/3/1919
in New York).
29/3/1866, John
Keble, English poet, died.
24/3/1866, Roualeyn
Gordon-Cumming, Scottish writer, died (born 15/3/1820).
21/3/1866, Charles Cooper,
English writer, died (born 20/3/1808).
23/2/1866, Laurent
de Jussieu, scholarly writer, died.
9/2/1866, George
Ade, US author, was born (died 16/5/1944)
20/1/1866, Richard
le Gallienne, English poet, was born.
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1865,
Alice in Wonderland was published by Lewis Carroll.
31/12/1865,
Fredrika
Bremer, novelist, died (born 17/8/1801)
30/12/1865, Rudyard Kipling, story and verse writer, was born in Bombay.
1/12/1865, Abraham
Frohlich, Swiss poet, died (born 1/2/1796).
12/11/1865, Elizabeth
Gaskell, English novelist, died (born 29/9/1810).
15/10/1865, Andres Bello,
poet, died in Santiago, Chile (born in Caracas, Venezuela, 29/11/1781)
30/9/1865, Dudley Costello,
English novelist, died (born 1803).
27/8/1865, Thomas
Haliburton, English writer, died (born 1796).
4/8/1865, William Aytoun,
Scottish poet, died in Blackhills near Elgin (born 21/6/1813).
2/8/1865, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
(Charles
Dodgson) was published.
11/7/1865, Richard Hildreth,
US writer, died (born 28/6/1807).
13/6/1865, Irish writer William Butler Yeats was born.
29/5/1865, Nicolas Geruzez,
French writer, died (born 6/1/1799)
4/5/1865, Henry Christy, English scholarly
writer, died (born 26/7/1818).
25/3/1865, Otto
Ludwig, German novelist, died.
27/2/1865, Miklos
Josika, Hungarian novelist, died.
18/1/1865, Charles
Greville, English diarist, died (born 2/4/1794).
15/1/1865, Edward Everett,
US writer, died (born 11/4/1794).
11/12/1864, Maurice
Leblanc, French novelist, was born.
3/12/1864, Hermann
Heijermans, Dutch writer, was born
17/9/1864, Walter
Landor, English writer, died (born 30/1/1775).
31/7/1864, Louis Hachette,
French publisher, died (born 5/5/1800).
26/7/1864, Andras Fay,
Hungarian poet, died (born 30/5/1786)
20/5/1864, John Clare,
English poet, died (born 13/7/1793).
26/3/1864, Jan Baake,
Dutch writer, died (born 1/9/1787)
17/2/1864, Banjo
Paterson, poet, was born.
6/2/1864, Vuk
Karajich, famous Serbian writer, died (born 6/11/1787).
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24/12/1863, William
Thackeray, poet,
died in London.
13/12/1863, Christian
Hebbel, German poet, died (born 18/3/1813).
9/11/1863, Johann
Doderlein, German scholarly writer, died (born 19/12/11791).
1/11/1863, Arthur
Morrison, English novelist, was born.
17/9/1863, Alfred
de Vigny, French poet, died
14/9/1863, Joseph Gwilt,
British architectural writer, died (born 11/1/1784)
5/9/1863, Giuseppe
la Farina, Italian author, died.
12/3/1863, Gabriele
D�Annunzio, Italian poet, was born.
9/2/1863, Anthony Hope, British novelist,
was born.
6/1/1863, Charles Dance, English writer,
died (born 1794).
24/12/1862, John Leycester
Adolphus, English author, died.
30/11/1862, James
Knowles, Irish dramatist, died (born 12/5/1784).
15/11/1862, Gerhart
Hauptmann, German dramatist, was born.
11/11/1862, Jacob Geel,
Dutch writer, died (born 12/11/1789).
13/10/1862, Mary
Kingsley, writer, was born (died 3/6/1900).
27/8/1862, Thomas Hogg,
English writer, died (born 24/5/1792).
26/8/1862, Alfred Gudeman,
US scholarly writer, was born.
23/8/1862, Friedrich
Hammer, German poet, died (born 7/6/1810).
17/7/1862, Oscar
Levertin, Swedish writer, was bor.
6/5/1862, Henry Thoreau, writer, died of
tuberculosis.
26/2/1862, Cornelius
Felton, US scholarly writer, died (born 6/11/1807).
24/2/1862, Bernhard
Ingemann, Danish poet, died (born 28/5/1789).
21/2/1862, Justinus
Kerner, German poet, died.
5/2/1862, Ignaz Castelli, Austrian
dramatist, died (born 6/3/1781).
24/1/1862, Edith
Wharton, writer, was born.
3/12/1861, David Gray,
Scottish poet, died (born 29/1/1838).
30/11/1861, Theodor
Mundt, German author, died (born 19/9/1808).
16/11/1861, Georg Freytag,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19/9/1788).
13/11/1861, Arthur Clough,
English poet, died (born 1/1/1819).
29/6/1861, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, poet, died
10/2/1861, John Donaldson,
English scholarly writer, died (born 7/6/1811).
28/1/1861, Henry
Murger, French writer, was born (died 28/1/1861).
22/1/1861, Maurice Hewlitt,
English novelist, was born.
12/1/1861, Wenceslaus
Hanka, Bohemiam scholarly writer, died (born 10/6/1791).
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22/12/1860, Marian Evans,
who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, died (born 22/11/1819).
28/11/1860, Christian
Bunsen, German scholarly writer, died (born 25/8/1791).
24/11/1860, George Croly,
British author, died (born 17/8/1780).
23/11/1860, Maria
Bashkirtseff, Russian writer, was born in Gavrontsi (died
31/10/1884).
8/11/1860, Sir Charles
Fellows, writer, died (born 8/1799).
24/9/1860, Samuel Crockett,
Scottish novelist, was born.
9/6/1860, George James, English novelist,
died (born 9/8/1799).
9/5/1860, James Barrie, British novelist,
was born in Kirriemuir.
28/4/1860, Isaak da Costa,
Dutch poet, died (born 14/1/1798).
1/4/1860, William
Mure, Scottish scholarly writer, died (born 9/7/1799).
17/3/1860, Anna Jameson,
British writer, died (born 17/5/1794).
29/1/1860, Ernst Moritz
Arndt, German poet, died in Bonn (born 26/12/1769 in Schoritz,
Rugen).
17/1/1860,� Anton Chekhov, Russian
author, was born at Taganrog, son of a shopkeeper.
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21/12/1859, Gustave Kahn,
French poet, was born.
16/12/1859, Wilhelm Grimm,
co-author with his brother Jacob of fairy tales, died in Berlin.
8/12/1859, Thomas de
Quincy, English author, died (born 15/8/1785).
28/11/1859, Washington
Irvine, US writer, died (born 3/4/1783).
22/11/1859, Cecil James
Sharp, British author, was born in London (died 23/6/1924 in London)
28/8/1859, James Hunt,
English writer, died (born 19/10/1784).
14/7/1859, Petrus Borel,
French writer, was born in Lyons (died in Algeria 14/7/1859).
2/5/1859, Jerome K Jerome,
author, was born at Walsall.
30/4/1859, Sergei Aksakov,
Russian writer (born 20/9/1791) died.
21/4/1859, Carl Nagelsbach,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28/3/1806).
14/4/1859, Sydney Morgan,
British authoress, died.
27/2/1859, Friedrich Bleek, German scholarly
writer,
died (born in Holstein 4/7/1793).
20/1/1859, Elisabeth Arnim,
German authoress, died in Berlin (born 4/4/1785 in Frankfort am Main).
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25/11/1858, Alfred Capus,
French author, was born.
6/11/1658, Pierre du Ryer,
French dramatist, died (born 1606).
3/6/1858, Edward Moxon,
British poet, died.
3/5/1858, Julien Brizeux,
poet, died (born 12/9/1803).
6/4/1858, Charles Bennett,
US scholarly writer, was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
26/3/1859, Alfred Edward
Housmam, poet, was born.
10/3/1859, Kenneth Grahame,
children�s writer, was born.
24/1/1858, Constance Naden,
English author, was born (died 23/12/1889).
19/1/1858, Eugene Brieux,
French dramatist, was born.
3/12/1857, Joseph Conrad,
writer, was born.
22/11/1857, George Gissing,
English novelist, was born (died 28/12/1903).
19/11/1857, Albert Harkness,
US scholarly writer, was born.
2/11/1857, Paul Hervieu,
French novelist, was born,
8/9/1857, Jean Boissonade,
French scholarly writer, died (born in Paris 12/8/1774).
27/8/1857, Rufus Griswold,
US writer, died (born 15/2/1815).
10/8/1857, John Croker,
British author, died (born 20/12/1780).
8/6/1857, Douglas Jerrold,
English writer, died (born 3/1/1803).
11/4/1857, John Davidson,
British writer, was born (died 23/3/1909).
26/3/1857, John Kemble,
English scholarly writer, died.
4/11/1856, Ernest Crosby,
US writer, was born (died 1907).
3/11/1856, Marcelino
Menendez y Pelayo, Spanish scholarly writer, was born.
23/9/1856, William Archer,
English writer, was born in Perth.
20/9/1856, John Brown,
Scottish writer, died (born 23/2/1817).
8/8/1856, Thomas Guthrie,
English novelist, was born.
2/7/1856, Thomasine
Gyllembourg, Danish writer, died (born 9/11/1773).
22/6/1856, Henry Haggard,
English novelist was born.
11/6/1856, Friedrich Hagen,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19/2/1780).
25/4/1856, Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, or Lewis Carroll, met the young Alice Liddell,
who was the inspiration for his Alice books.
15/4/1856, Jean Moreas,
French poet, was born (died 31/3/1910).
27/2/1856, Agnes Duclaux,
English poet, was born.
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31/12/1855, Karl Hermann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 4/8/1804).
26/12/1855, August Follen,
German poet, died (born 21/1/1794).
15/12/1855, Maurice Bouchor,
French poet, was born in Paris.
16/11/1855, Josef Lauff,
German poet, was born.
3/8/1855, Henry Bunner,
US writer, was born (died 11/5/1896).
21/7/1855, Daniel Atterbom,
Swedish poet, died.
2/6/1855, Thomas Gaisford,
English scholarly writer, died (born 22/12/1779).
24/6/1855, Johann Flugel,
German writer, died (born 22/11/1788).
31/3/1855, Charlotte
Bronte, oldest of the three literary sisters,
died during pregnancy.
18/2/1855, Jean Jusserand,
French author, was born.
25/1/1855, Gerard de
Nerval, French writer, died (born 22/5/1808).
10/1/1855, Mary Mitford,
English novelist, died.
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9/12/1854, Joao Garrett,
Portuguese poet, died (born 1799).
2/8/1854, Francis
Crawford, US author, was born (died 9/4/1909).
26/12/1853, Rene Bazin,
French novelist, was born in Angers.
15/12/1853, Georg
Grotefrend, German writer, died (born 9/6/1775).
10/12/1853, Tommaso Grossi,
Lombard poet and novelist, died (born 20/7/1791).
5/11/1853, Janos Garay,
Hungarian poet, died (born 10/10/1812).
3/6/1853, Cesare Balbo,
Italian writer, died (born 1/11/1789 in Turin)
14/5/1853, Thomas Caine,
British novelist, was born.
7/5/1853, Matthias
Castren, Finnish scholarly writer, died (born 2/12/1813).
6/5/1853, Cortes Donoso,
Spanish author, died (born 6/5/1809).
27/4/1853, Francois
Lemaitre, French dramatist, was born.
6/3/1853, Albert Cook,
US scholarly writer, was born.
3/2/1853, August Kopisch,
German poet, died (born 29/5/1799).
24/10/1852, Henry Clinton,
English scholarly writer, died (born 14/1/1781).
2/9/1852, Paul Bourget,
French novelist, was born in Amiens.
12/6/1852, Xavier de
Maistre, French writer, died.
7/6/1852, Hosea Ballou,
US writer, died in Boston (born in Richmond, New Hampshire, 30/4/1771).
4/6/1852, Lucas Malet,
English novelist, was born.
20/4/1852, Bela Edwards,
US writer, died (born 4.7.1802).
5/3/1852, Marie Gay,
French author, died (born 1/7/1776).
25/2/1852, Thomas Moore,
Irish poet, died (born 28/5/1779).
21/2/1852, Nikolia Gogol,
Russian
story writer and novelist, died in
Moscow.
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3/11/1851, Clovis Hugues,
French poet, was born (died 11/6/1907).
18/10/1851, Herman
Melville�s work, Moby Dick,
was published in London.
10/10/1851, Melvil Dewey,
US librarian, was born.
28/9/1851, Henry Jones,
English dramatist, was born.
14/9/1851, James Cooper,
US novelist, died (born 15/9/1789).
25/8/1851, George Lathrop,
US writer, was born.
17/8/1851, Henry Drummond,
Scottish scholarly writer, was born (died 11/3/1897).
7/8/1851, Johann Gruber,
German writer, died (born 29/11/1774).
6/7/1851, David Moir,
Scottish writer, died (born 5/1/1798).
2/7/1851, Gyorgy Fejer,
Hungarian author, died (born 23/4/1766).
28/3/1851, Gabor Dobrentei,
Hungarian writer, died (born 1786).
27/3/1851, Karl Dindorf,
German scholarly writer, died (2/1/1802).
14/3/1851, Ferdinand Hand,
German scholarly writer, died (born 15/2/1786).
13/3/1851, Karl Lachmann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 4/3/1793).
1/2/1851, Mary Shelley,
author of Frankenstein, died.
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21/12/1850, James Lane
Allen, US novelist, was born near Lexington, Kentucky.
19/11/1850, Alfred Lord
Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate, a post he held until his death
in 1892.
13/11/1850, Writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh,
at 8 Howard Place.� His father and
grandfather were lighthouse builders.
3/11/1850, John Watson,
writer, was born (died 6/5/1907).
5/10/1850, William Gibson,
US writer, was born (died 16/7/1896).
5/9/1850, James Ingram,
English writer, died (born 21/12/1774).
27/8/1850, Thomas Kidd,
English scholarly writer, died.
22/8/1850, Nikolaus von
Strehlenau, Austrian poet, died (born 15/8/1802).
18/8/1850, Honore de
Balzac, French
writer, died in Paris.
13/8/1850, Philip Marston,
English poet, was born (died 13/2/1887).
6/8/1850, Henri
Chantavoine, French writer, was born.
5/8/1850, Henri
Maupassant, French novelist, was born (died 6/7/1893).
16/6/1850, Margaret Fuller,
US authoress, died (born 23/5/1810).
24/5/1850, Jane Porter,
English
novelist (born 1776) died.
12/5/1850, Henry Lodge,
US author, was born.
23/4/1850, Sir William
Wordsworth, Poet Laureate from 1843, died of pleurisy at Rydal
Mount, Grasmere, aged 80.
7/4/1850, William Bowles,
English poet, died in Salisbury (born in Northamptonshire 24/9/1762).
25/3/1850, Edward Bellamy,
US writer, was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts (died in Chicopee Falls
22/5/1898).
16/2/1850, Octave Mirabeau,
French dramatist, was born.
26/1/1850, Francis Jeffrey,
Scottish writer, died (born 23/10/1773).
24/1/1850, Charles
Craddock, US author, was born.
19/1/1850, Augustine
Birrell, author, was born near Liverpool.
14/1/1850, Louis Viaud,
French author, was born.
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26/12/1849, Francis Brown,
USA Semitic scholar and writer, was born.
20/12/1849, Michail Eminescu,
Romanian poet, was born (died 1889).
24/11/1849, Frances Burnett, novelist,
was born.
7/10/1849, Edgar Allen Poe,
US fiction writer, died aged
40, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1/10/1849, Anne
Edgren-Leffler, Swedish author, was born (died 21/10/1892).
21/9/1849, Edmund Gosse,
English poet, was born.
3/9/1849, Ernst
Feuchtersleben, Austrian poet, died (born 29/4/1806).
29/8/1849, Jean Buchon,
French scholarly writer, died (born 21/5/1791).
3/8/1849, William Henley,
British poet, was born (died 11/7/1903).
25/7/1849, James Kenney,
English dramatist, died.
6/7/1849, Goffredo Mameli,
Italian poet, died.
20/6/1849, James Mangan,
Irish poet, died (born 1/5/1803).
4/6/1849, Marguerite
Blessington, Irish novelist, died in Paris (born in County Tipperary
1/9/1789).
28/5/1849, Anne Bronte,
English novelist, died in
Scarborough, Yorkshire, aged 29.
22/5/1849, Maria Edgeworth,
Irish novelist, died (born 1/7/1767).
27/4/1849, Severino
Fabriani, Italian writer, died (born 7/1/1792).
28/3/1849, James
Darmesteter, French author, was born (died 19/10/1894).
10/2/1849, Bernard Barton,
English poet, died in Woodbridge (born in Carlisle 31/1/1784).
26/1/1849, Thomas Beddoes,
English dramatist, died (born in Clifton 20/7/1803).
22/1/1849, August
Strindberg, playwright,
was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
6/1/1849, Hartley
Coleridge, English writer, died (born 19/9/1796).
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31/12/1848, Johann Hermann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28/11/1772).
19/12/1848, Emily Bronte, English novelist who wrote Wuthering Heights, born 30/7/1818, died
from tuberculosis.
16/11/1848, Charles Bemont, scholarly
writer, was born in Paris
25/10/1848, Karl Franzos, German
novelist, was born (died 28/1/1904).
9/8/1848, Frederick Marryat, English novelist, died.
9/7/1848, Jaime Balmes,
Spanish writer, died in Vich (born in Vich, Catalonia, 28/8/1810).
5/7/1848, William Butler,
Irish writer, died.
24/5/1848, Annette
Droste-Hulshoff, German poet, died (born 10/1/1797).
26/3/1848, John Collins,
English literary critic, was born (died 15/9/1908).
5/2/1848, Joris Huysmans,
French novelist, was born (died 13/5/1907).
29/1/1848, Johann Gorres,
German writer, died (born 25/1/1776).
26/12/1847, Hugh Conway,
novelist, was born (died 15/5/1885).
17/12/1847, Emile Faguet,
French writer, was born.
19/11/1847, Mary Foote,
US author, was born.
8/11/1847, Bram Stoker,
author of Dracula, was born in Dublin.
16/10/1847, Jane Eyre was first published.
14/8/1847, Frans Franzen
Swedish poet, died (born 9/2/1772).
29/5/1847, Alexander
Everett, US writer, died (born 19/3/1790).
7/4/1847, Jens Jacobsen,
Danish writer, was born (died 30/4/1885).
30/3/1847, Christian
Jacobs, German scholarly writer, died (born 6/10/1764).
23/11/1846, George Darley,
Irish poet, died (born 1795).
21/10/1846, Edmondo de
Amicis, Italian writer, was born in Oneglia, Liguria (died in
Bordighera, 12/3/1908).
9/10/1846, Holger
Drachmann, Danish poet, was born (died 14/1/1908).
9/9/1846, Henri Marion,
French philosophical writer, was born (died 5/4/1896).
4/9/1846, Victor Jouy,
Frenchy dramatist, died (born 12/9/1764).
31/7/1846, Theodore Fix,
Swiss writer, died (born 1800).
24/4/1846, Marcus Clarke,
US author, was born (died 2/8/1881).
31/3/1846, Comte de
Lautreamont, writer, was born.
19/2/1846, Charles
Clermont-Ganneau, writer on the Orient, was born.
7/1/1846, John Frere,
English author, died (born 21/5/1769).
6/1/1846, Lewis Goldsmith,
Anglo-French writer, died.
5/1/1846, Rudolf Eucken,
scholarly writer, was born.
25/11/1845, Jose Maria Eca
del Quieroz, Portuguese writer was born (died in Paris, 16/8/1900).
10/10/1845, William Minto,
Scottish writer, was born (died 1/3/1893).
15/9/1845, Thomas Davis,
Irish poet, died (born 14/10/1814).
17/6/1845, Richard Barham,
English writer, died (born in Canterbury 6/12/1788).
3/5/1845, Thomas Hood, poet, died.
15/2/1845, Samuel Blanchard, British author, died (born in Great Yarmouth 15/2/1804).
28/1/1845, Christoph Houwald, German author, died (born 28/11/1778)
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23/10/1844, Robert Bridges, poet laureate, was born.
12/10/1844, George Cable, US
author, was born.
24/9/1844, Robert Jamieson, Scottish
writer, died .
28/7/1844, Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, was born.
17/6/1844, Hartwig Derenbourg, writer, was born (died 1908).
16/4/1844, Anatole France, French
novelist, was born.
24/3/1844, Antoine Lemonnier, Belgian poet, was born.
31/3/1844, Andrew Lang, British writer, was born.
13/12/1843, Some 6,000
copies of Charles Dicken�s �A Christmas Carol�
were sold on the first day of publication.
15/10/1843, John Foster,
English writer, died (born 17/9/1770).
13/7/1843, Jean Lanessan,
French writer, was born.
7/6/1843, Johann
Holderlin, German poet, died (born 20/3/1770).
15/4/1843, Henry James,
US author, was born.
6/4/1843, William Wordsworth was appointed poet laureate, the day before his 73rd
birthday.
6/2/1843, Frederic Myers,
English poet, was born (died 17/1/1901)
23/1/1843, Friedrich
Fouque, German writer, died (born 12/2/1777).
22/1/1843, Friedrich Blass,
German scholarly writer, was born in Osnabruck (died in Halle 5/3/1907).
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8/12/1842, Gregor Csiky,
Hungarian dramatist, was born (died 19/11/1891).
7/12/1842, Thomas Hamilton,
Scottish writer, died (born 1789).
26/11/1842, Alexandre
Beljame, French writer, was born in Villiers (died in Domont
19/9/1906).
22/11/1842, Jose Heredia,
French poet, was born (died 3/10/1905).
9/11/1842, Marie Gerando,
French philosophical writer, died (born 29/2/1772).
30/10/1842, Allan
Cunningham, Scottish poet, died (born 7/12/1784).
28/10/1842, Anna Dickinson,
US writer, was born.
1/9/1842, Alexandre Duval,
French dramatist, died (born 6/4/1767).
21/8/1842, William Maginn,
Irish poet, died (born 10/7/1793).
28/7/1842, Klemens
Brentano, German poet and novelist, died (born 8/9/1778).
17/7/1842, William
Courthorpe, English writer, was born.
24/6/1842, Ambrose Bierce,
writer and satirist, was born.
23/5/1842, Jose Espronceda,
Spanish poet, died (born 25/3/1808).
21/4/1842, Charles Adams,
US poet (died 8/3/1918) was born.
14/4/1842, Jean Bouilly,
French writer, died in Paris (born near Tours 24/1/1763)
18/3/1842, Stephane
Mallarme, French poet, was born (died 9/9/1898).
24/2/1842, Arrigo Boito,
Italian poet, was born in Padua.
23/2/1842, Marie Beyle,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Grenoble 23/1/1783).
12/2/1842, Henri
Leroy-Beaulieu, French writer, was born.
3/2/1842, Sidney Lanier,
US poet, was born (died 7/9/1881).
12/1/1842, Francois Coppee,
French novelist and poet, was born (died 23/5/1908).
10/11/1841, Joaquin Miller,
US poet, was born.
3/11/1841, Isabella Alden,
US author,
was born (died 1930).
16/9/1841, Thomas Dibdin,
English dramatist, died (born 21/3/1771).
24/8/1841, Theofore Hook,
English author, died (born 22/9/1788).
18/8/1841, Robert Buchanan,
British novelist, was born (died 10/6/1901).
27/7/1841, Poet Mikhail
Lermontov was killed, aged 26, in a duel with a fellow-soldier at
Pyatigorsk.
22/5/1841, Catulle Mendes,
French poet, was born (died 9/2/1909).
18/4/1841, Henry Kendall,
Australian poet, was born (died 1/8/1882).
21/3/1841, Mathilde Blind,
English author, was born in Mannheim (died 26/11/1896).
20/3/1841, Edgar Allen
Poe published a new literary genre, the detective story. The Murders
in the Rue Morgue challenged readers to deduce who the villain was before
the final page.
14/2/1841, Jean Acard,
French poet, was born in Toulon.
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3/12/1840, Jules Claretie,
French writer, was born.
27/8/1841, Sir Richard
Jebb, English scholarly writer, was born (died 9/12/1905).
25/8/1840, Karl Immerman,
German dramatist, died (born 24/4/1796).
17/8/1840, Wilfrid Blunt,
English poet, was born in Sussex.
16/8/1840, Timothy Flint,
US writer, died (born 17/7/1780).
1/8/1840, Karl Muller,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28/8/1797).
27/6/1840, Ingram Bywater,
English scholarly writer, was born.
12/6/1840, Gerald Griffin,
Irish novelist, died (born 12/12/1803).
2/6/1840, Thomas Hardy, novelist, was born in Higher Bockhampton,
Dorset, the son of a stonemason.
13/5/1840, Alphonse Daudet,
French
novelist, born.
11/5/1840, Thomas Cooper,
US writer, died (born 22/10/1759).
18/3/1840, William
Monkhouse, English poet, was born (died 20/7/1901).
18/1/1840, Henry Dobson,
English poet, was born.
17/1/1840, Paul
Meyer, French scholarly writer, was born.
14/1/1840, Karl Follen,
German poet, died (born 5/9/1795).
6/1/1840,
Frances
D�Arblay, English novelist, died (born 13/6/1752).
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15/12/1839,
Ignaz
Fessler, Hungarian writer, died (born 18/5/1756).
4/12/1839, Samuel Butler,
English scholarly writer, died (born 30/1/1774).
29/11/1839, Ludwig
Anzengruber, Austrian dramatist, was born in Vienna (died in Vienna
10/12/1889).
16/11/1839, Louis Frechette,
French Canadian poet, was born (died 1/6/1908).
27/10/1839, John Long,
US politician, was born.
25/8/1839, Francis Harte,
US author, was born (died 5/5/1902).
19/7/1839, Georges Guerin,
French poet, died (born 4/8/1810).
12/6/1839, Wordsworth
received an honorary doctorate from
Oxford University.
3/6/1839, Paul Lindau,
German novelist, was born.
29/5/1839, Mary Molesworth,
Scottish writer, was born.
17/5/1839, Archibald
Alison, Scottish author, died in Colinton (born 13/11/1757 in
Edinburgh).
22/4/1839, Thomas Bayly,
English writer, died (born in Bath 13/10/1797).
11/4/1839, John Galt,
Scottish novelist, died (born 2/5/1779).
2/4/1839, Toussaint
Bernard Emeric David, art writer, died (born 20/8/1755).
5/2/1839, Emmanuel des
Essarts, French poet, was born.
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20/12/1838, Hegesippe
Moreau, French poet, died (born 9/4/1810).
7/11/1838, Anne Grant,
Scottish writer, died (born 21/2/1755).
2/11/1838, Adalbert Merx,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 6/8/1909).
26/10/1838, Pierre Lanfrey,
French writer, was born (died 15/11/1877)
15/10/1838, Letitia Landon,
English poet and novelist, died (born 14/8/1802).
24/8/1838, Ferencz Kolcsey,
Hungarian poet, died (born 8/8/1790).
21/8/1838, Adelbert
Chamisso, German poet, died (born 30/1/1781).
4/8/1838, Gustave
Flourens, French writer, was born (died 3/4/1871).
20/7/1838, Augustin Daly,
US playwright, was born (died 7/6/1899).
27/6/1838, Bankim
Chatterji, Indian novelist, was born (died 1894).
4/5/1838, James Albery,
English dramatist, was born in London (died 15/8/1889).
6/3/1838, Jean
Charlemagne, French dramatic author, died (born 30/11/1753).
29/1/1838, David Gray,
Scottish poet, was born (died 3/12/1861).
10/12/1837, Edward
Eggleston, US novelist, was born (died 2/9/1902).
8/9/1837, Sir Samuel
Brydges, writer, died (born 30/11/1762).
16/6/1837, Ernst Laas,
German philosophical writer, was born.
15/6/1837, Giacomo
Leopardi, Italian poet, died.
3/6/1837, Franz Bucheler,
German classical scholarly writer, was born (died 1908).
9/4/1837, Henry Becque,
French dramatist, was born in Paris (died May 1899).
1/3/1837, Georg Ebers,
German writer, was born (died 7/8/1898).
15/2/1837, Wilhelm Jensen,
German author, was born.
13/2/1837, Mariano Larra,
Spanish satirical writer, died.
10/2/1837, Alexander
Pushkin, Russian writer, was killed in a duel.
9/2/1837, Alfred Ainger, English writer (died 8/2/1904)
was born.
24/1/1837, Elizabeth
Penrose, pen-name Mrs Markham,
English writer, died.
17/1/1837, Oscar Browning,
English writer, was born.
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4/12/1836, Edward Arber,
English writer, was born.
29/11/1836, Sir Francis
Burnand, English humorous writer, was born.
18/11/1836, Sir William
Gilbert, English playwright, was born.
11/11/1836, Thomas Aldrich,
US author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (died 19/3/1907 in Boston).
17/10/1836, George Colman,
English dramatist, died (born 21/10/1762).
4/10/1836, Juliette Adam,
French writer, was born in Verberie, Oise.
12/9/1836, Christian
Grabbe, German dramatist, died (born 11/12/1801).
14/8/1836, Sir Walter
Besant, English
novelist, was born.
24/7/1836, Jean Carrel,
French publicist, died (born 8/5/1800).
17/3/1836, Lucian Muller,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 24/4/1898).
17/2/1836, Gustavo Becquer,
Spanish writer, was born in Seville (died in Madrid 22/12/1870).
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18/12/1835, US author
Lyman Abbott
was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
13/12/1835, Phillips Brooks,
US author, was born (died 23/1/1893).
4/12/1835, Samuel Butler,
English author, was born (died 18/6/1902).
1/12/1835, Nicolas
Baptiste, French writer, died in Paris (born in Bordeaux 18/6/1761).
30/11/1835, Mark Twain
was born.
21/11/1835, James Hogg,
Scottish poet, died (born 1770).
5/8/1835, Thomas McCrie,
Scottish writer, died.
7/6/1835, George Hill,
English writer, was born (died 27/2/1903).
30/5/1835, Alfred Austin,
English poet-laureate, was born in Headingley, Leeds.
16/5/1835, Felicia Hemans,
English poet, died (born 25/9/1793).
26/4/1835, John de Tabley,
English poet, was born (died 22/11/1895).
17/4/1835, William Ireland,
forger of Shakespearian plays, died (born 1777).
8/4/1835, Karl Humoldt,
German scholarly writer, died (died 22/6/1767).
25/3/1835, Karl Heigel,
German novelist, was born (died 6/9 1905).
13/3/1835, Leon Cladel,
French novelist, was born (died 20/7/1892).
27/2/1835, Richard Garnett,
English author, was born (died 13/4/1906).
19/1/1835, Tom Hood,
English writer, was born (died 20/11/1874).
6/1/1835, August Matthiae,
German scholarly writer, died (born 25/12/1769).
3/1/1835, Hans von Hopfen,
German poet, was born (died 19/11/1904).
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27/12/1834, Charles Lamb,
English essayist, died.
19/12/1834, Alexander
Chalmers, Scottish writer, died (born 20/3/1759)
13/11/1834, Friedrich Ebert,
German writer, died (born 9/7/1791).
8/10/1834, Francois
Boieldieu, French poet, died in Paris (born in Rouen 15/12/1775).
16/9/1834, Antoine Arnault,
play writer, died in Goderville (born in Paris, January 1766).
10/9/1834, Philip Hamerton,
English writer, was born (died 4/11/1894).
30/7/1834, Diego Clemencin,
Spanish scholarly writer, died (born 27/9/1765).
5/9/1834, Robinson Ellis,
English scholarly writer, was born.
24/3/1834, William Morris,
English poet, was born (died 3/10/1896).
5/3/1834, Leopoldo
Cicognara, Italian writer, died (born 17/11/1767).
23/2/1834, Karl Knebel,
German poet, died (born 30/11/1744).
28/1/1834, Sabine
Baring-Gould, English novelist, was born in Exeter.
2/12/1833, Charles
Chenedolle, French poet, died (born 4/11/1769).
23/11/1833, John Boydell,
publisher, died in Paris (born in Dorrington 1/3/1757).
6/11/1833, Jonas Lie,
Norwegian novelist, was born (died 5/7/1908).
2/11/1833, Horace Furness,
US writer on Shakespeare, was born.
15/10/1833, Victor DuCange,
novelist, died (24/11/1783)
4/10/1833, Richard Heber,
book collector, died (born 5/1/1773).
8/9/1833, Richard Morris,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 12/5/1894).
11/8/1833, Robert
Ingersoll, US author, was born (died 21/7/1899).
10/7/1833, George Dover,
English writer, died (born 14/1/1797).
9/5/1833, Francois
Andrieux, French writer, died in Paris (born 6/5/1759 in
Strasbourg).
5/5/1833, Richard Dixon,
English poet, was born (died 23/1/1900).
25/4/1833, Dominique Garat,
French writer, died (born 8/9/1749).
10/3/1833, Pedro Alarcon,
Spanish writer, was born in Guadix (died 20/7/1891 in Madrid).
5/1/1833, Sophus Bugge,
Norwegian scholarly writer, was born (died 8/7/1907).
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8/12/1832, Sir George
Birdwood, writer was born.
29/11/1832, Louisa Alcott,
US author (died 6/3/1888) was born.
10/6/1832, Sir Edwin
Arnold, British poet, was born (died 24/3/1904).
9/6/1832, Antoine Droz,
French writer, was born (died 22/10/1895).
30/5/1832, Sir James
MacKintosh, Scottish writer, died (born 24/10/1765).
17/5/1832, Moncure Daniel
Conway, US author, was born (died 15/11/1907)
21/4/1832, Werner
Munzinger, Swiss scholarly writer, was born.
20/4/1832, James Morison,
British author, was born (died 26/2/1888).
19/4/1832, Jose Echegaray
y Eizaguirre, writer, was born.
26/3/1832, Michel Breal,
scholarly writer, was born in Landau, Bavaria.
22/3/1832, Johann van
Goethe, German
poet and writer, author of Faust,
died aged 82.
17/3/1832, Moncure Conway,
US author, was born (died 15/11/1907).
27/1/1832, Lewis Carroll, English mathematician and
children�s book author, notably Alice in Wonderland
and Through the Looking Glass, was born at the vicarage at Daresbury,
near Warrington. His name was originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, first son of
a family of 12 children.
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22/12/1831, Charles
Calverley, English poet, was born (died 17/2/1884).
18/12/1831, Willem
Bilderdijk, Dutch poet, died in Haarlem (born in Amsterdam
7/9/1756).
15/12/1831, Hannah Adams,
US writer (born 1755) died.
8/11/1831, Edward Lytton,
English poet, was born (died 24/11/1891).
2/11/1831, Henry Jones,
English author, was born (died 10/2/1899).
23/10/1831, Basil
Gildersleeve, US classical scholarly writer, was born.
2/10/1831, Edwin Godkin,
US writer, was born (died 21/5/1902).
22/8/1831, Ferencz
Kazinczy, Hungarian author, died (born 27/10/1759).
29/5/1831, Philip Colomb,
English writer, was born (died 13/10/1899).
9/5/1831, William Goodwin,
US scholarly writer, was born.
26/4/1831, Sir James
Donaldson, Scottish scholarly writer, was born.
12/3/1831, Friedrich von Matthisson,
German poet, died (born 23/1/1761).
21/2/1831, Henri Meilhac,
French dramatist, was born.
21/1/1831, Ludwig Arnim,
German writer, died in Brandenburg (born 26/1/1781 in Berlin).
14/1/1831, Henry MacKenzie,
Scottish novelist, died.
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10/12/1830, Emily Dickinson,
US poet, was born in Amherst,
Massachusetts.
8/12/1830, Henri Constant,
French writer, died (born 25/10/1767).
22/11/1830, McCarthy,
Irish writer, was born
21/11/1830, Karoly
Kisfaludy, Hungarian author, died.
18/9/1830, William Hazlitt,
English writer, died (born 10/4/1778).
13/9/1830, Marie
Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian novelist, was born.
8/9/1830, Frederic
Mistral, French poet, was born.
3/9/1830, Lewis Campbell,
British classical scholarly writer, was born (died 25/10/1908).
22/7/1830, Richard
Christie, English scholarly writer, was born (died 9/1/1901).
20/5/1830, Hector Malot,
French novelist, was born.
5/5/1830, Thomas Brown,
British poet, was born (died 29/10/1897).
24/3/1830, Robert
Hamerling, Austrian poet, was born (died 13/7/1889).
15/3/1830, Paul Heyse,
German writer, was born.
8/3/1830, Joao de Deus,
Portuguese poet, was born (died 11/1/1896).
20/2/1830, Robert Anderson,
Scottish writer, died in Edinburgh (born 7/1/1750 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire)
15/2/1830, Silas Mitchell,
US author, was born.
2/1/1830, Henry Kingsley,
English novelist, was born.
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22/9/1829, William Belknap,
US politician, was born in Newburgh, New York (died in Washington DC
13/10/1890).
17/9/1829, Karl Hillebrand,
German author, was born (died 19/10/1884).
19/7/1829, Charles
Cherbuliez, French novelist, was born (died 1/7/1899).
12/5/1829, George Childs,
US publisher, was born (died 3/2/1894).
11/2/1829, Alexander
Griboyedov, Russian author, died (born 1795).
5/2/1829, Jean Gail,
French writer on Greece, died (born 4/7/1755).
30/1/1829, Edward Cook,
English author, was born (died 11/9/1883).
2/1/1829, Melchiorre
Gioja, Italian writer, died (born 20/9/1767).
8/12/1828, Pierre
Levasseur, French scholarly writer, was born.
6/11/1828, Hiram Corson,
US scholarly writer, was born.
29/10/1828, Luke Hansard,
British printer, died (born 5/7/1752).
6/9/1828, David Forbes,
British scientific writer, was born (died 5/12/1876).
28/8/1828, Count Leo
Tolstoy, Russian writer, was born of aristocratic descent in
Tula Province.
22/8/1828, Franz Gall,
medical writer, died (born 9/3/1758)
29/5/1828, Gerald Massey,
English poet, was born (died 29/10/1907).
12/5/1828, Gabriel
Dante Rosetti, poet, was born.
1/5/1828, Adelardo Lopez
de Ayala, Spanish writer, was born in Guadacanal (died 30/1/1879).
25/4/1828, Julius Grosse,
German poet, was born (died 9/5/1902).
20/3/1828, Norwegian
poet Henry
Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.
20/3/1828, Ruggero Bonghi,
Italian writer, was born in Naples (died 22/10/1895).
14/2/1828, Edmond About,
French writer (died 16/1/1885) was born in Dieuze, Lorraine.
12/2/1828, George Meredith,
British novelist, was born (died 18/5/1909).
8/2/1828, Jules Verne,
French writer and early author of science fiction, was born in Nantes,
Brittany.
31/1/1828, Henry Chandler,
scholarly writer, was born (died 16/5/1889).
16/1/1828, Johann Ersch,
German writer, died (born 23/6/1766).
9/9/1828, Leo Tolstoy,
noveilist, was born.
2/1/1828, Elizabeth
Charles, English author, was born (died 28/3/1896).
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7/12/1827, Marc Monnier,
French writer, was born (died 18/4/1885).
18/11/1827, Wilhelm Hauff,
German poet, died (born 29/11/1802).
10/10/1827, Ugo Foscolo,
Italian writer, died (born 26/1/1778).
30/9/1827, Wilhelm Muller,
German lyrical poet, died (born 7/10/1794).
20/8/1827, Charles de
Coster, Belgian writer, was born (died 7/5/1879).
18/9/1827, Robert Pollock,
poet, died
13/8/1827, William Blake,
British poet, died.
21/7/1827, Archibald
Constable, Scottish publisher, died (born 24/2/1774).
29/6/1827, Mortimer
Collins, English writer, was born (died 28/7/1876).
18/6/1827, Alexander
Grosart, Scottish writer, was born (died 16/3/1899).
12/6/1827, Johanna Spyri,
author, was born
1/5/1827, John Bascom,
US author, was born in Genoa, New York State.
25/3/1827, George Lawrence,
English novelist, was born (died 23/9/1876).
13/1/1827, Jean Lanjuinais,
French writer, died (born 12/3/1753).
2/1/1827, John Good,
English scholarly writer, died (born 25/5/1764).
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31/12/1826, William Gifford,
English writer, died (born 1756).
28/12/1826, Conrad
Busken-Huet, Dutch literary critic, was born (died 1886)
3/10/1826, Jens Baggesen,
Danish poet, died in Hamburg (born 15/2/1764 in Korsor).
29/9/1826, Charles Chesney,
British military writer, was born (died 19/3/1876).
22/9/1826, Johann Hebel,
German poet, died (born 10/5/1760).
2/6/1826, Richard Hutton,
English writer, was born (died 9/9/1897).
20/4/1826, Dinah Craik,
English novelist, was born (died 12/10/1887).
4/3/1826, Elme Carlo,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 13/7/1887).
29/3/1826, Wilhelm
Liebknecht, German socialist writer, was born (died 6/8/1900).
27/2/1826, Howard Crosby,
US writer, was born (died 1890).
14/2/1826, Johann Falk,
German author, died (born 28/10/1768).
16/1/1826, Lindley Murray,
writer, died (born 22/4/1745)
25/12/1825, Henri Bornier,
French poet, was born in Lunel (died 1/1901).
5/12/1825, Antoine Barbier,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Coulommiers 11/1/1765)
11/10/1825, Konrad Meyer,
Swiss poet, was born (died 28/11/1898).
9/10/1825, Josef Jirecek,
Czeck scholarly writer, was born (died 25/11/1888).
24/9/1825, Peter Dobree,
English scholarly writer, died (born 1782).
18/8/1825, Paul Courier,
French writer, died (born 4/1/1773).
10/8/1825, John Conington,
English classical writer, was born (died 23/10/1869).
14/6/1825, Jean Montegut,
French writer, was born (died 11/12/1895).
7/6/1825, Richard
Blackmore, English novelist, was born in Berkshire (died in
Teddington 20/1/1900).
6/5/1825, Lady Anne
Barnard, writer, died in London (born in Fife 12/12/1750).
24/4/1825, Robert
Ballantyne, writer, was born in Edinburgh (died 8/2/1894 in Rome).
23/4/1825, Friedrich
Muller, German poet, died (born 13/1/1749).
9/3/1825, Anna Barbauld,
English poet, died (born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire 20/6/1743).
8/3/1825, Peter Elmsley,
English scholarly writer, died (born 1773).
3/3/1825, Annie Keary,
English novelist, was born (died 3/3/1879).
19/2/1825, Maurus Jokai,
Hungarian novelist, was born (died 5/5/1904).
4/2/1825, Frederick
Furnivall, English writer, was born (died 2/7/1910).
1/2/1825, Francis Child,
scholarly writer, was born (died11/9/1896).
27/1/1825, William Green,
US Hebrew scholarly writer, was born (died 10/2/1900).
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25/12/1824, Rodolphe
Dareste, French writer, was born.
24/12/1824, Carl Cornelius,
German poet, was born (died 26/10/1874).
5/12/1824, William Blades,
English writer, was born in Clapham, London (died in Sutton, Surrey 27/4/1890).
11/12/1824, Victor Balaguer,
Spanish author, was born in Barcelona (died in Madrid 14/1/1901).
30/10/1824, Charles Maturin,
Irish novelist, died.
27/10/1824, Edward Maitland,
English humanitarian writer, was born (died 2/10/1897).
11/9/1824, Jakob Bernays,
German writer, was born in Hamburg (died in Bonn 26/5/1881).
26/5/1824, Capel Lofft,
English writer, died (born 14/11/1751).
3/5/1824, Joseph Joubert,
French moralistic writer, died (born 6/5/1754).
5/4/1824, Sydney Dobell,
English poet, was born (died 22/8/1874).
19/3/1824, William
Allingham, Irish poet, was born in Ballyshannon, Donegal (died in
Hampstead, London, on 18/11/1889).
13/3/1824, Sophia Lee,
English novelist, died.
8/2/1824, Rhijnvis Feith,
Dutch poet, died (born 7/2/1753).
25/1/1824, Michael Dutt,
Indian poet, was born (died 29/6/1873).
8/1/1824, William Collins,
English novelist, was born (died 23/9/1889).
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29/12/1823, Augusta Drane,
English writer, was born (died 29/4/1894).
22/12/1823, Thomas
Higginson, US writer, was born.
1/11/1823, Heinrich
Gerstenberg, German poet, died (born 3/1/1737).
29/10/1823, Clement Ingleby,
English writer on Shakespeare, was born (died 26/9/1886).
30/9/1823, Rudolf von
Gottschall, German writer, was born (died 21/3/1909).
19/8/1823, Robert
Bloomfield, English poet, died in Shefford, Bedfordshire (born in
Honington, Suffolk 3/12/1766)
15/8/1823, Marie Boissier,
French scholarly writer, was born in Nimes (died 6/1908).
13/7/1823, Eugene Manuel,
French poet, was born.
7/7/1823, John Ingram,
Irish scholarly writer, was born (died 18/5/1907).
15/5/1823, Thomas Harris,
US poet and preacher, was born
19/5/1823, William Combe,
English writer, died (born 1741).
24/3/1823, Thomas Baynes,
English writer, was born in Wellington, Somerset (died 31/5/1887).
14/3/1823, Theodore
Banville, French poet, was born in Moulins (died in Paris 15
3/1891).
6/3/1823, Gustaf
Ljunggren, Swedish writer, was born.
9/1/1823, William Corey,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 11/6/1892).
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26/12/1822, Dion Boucicault,
Irish playwright, was born in Dublin (died in New York 18/9/1890).
24/12/1822, Matthew Arnold,
British poet, was born in Laleham, Staines (died 15/4/1888 in Liverpool).
2/12/1822, David Masson,
Scottish writer, was born (died 6/10/1907).
26/11/1822, Octavius Frothingham, US
author, was born (died 27/11/1895).
19/10/1822, Louis Menard,
French writer, was born (died 12/2/1901).
6/10/1822, Albert Harkness,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 27/5/1907).
18/9/1822, Johann Nauck,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 3/8/1892).
15/9/1822, Henry Morley,
British writer, was born (died 14/5/1894).
1/8/1822, James Grant,
British novelist, was born (died 5/5/1887).
24/7/1822, Ernst Hoffmann,
German writer, died (born 24/1/1776)
8/7/1822, Percy Bysshe
Shelley died. He drowned in a storm whilst sailing off the coast of Italy.
27/5/1822, Louis Bouilhet,
French poet, was born in Cany (died in Rouen 18/7/1869).
16/5/1822, Henry Dixon,
English sports writer, was born (died 16/3/1870).
12/4/1822, Donald Mitchell,
US author, was born.
3/4/1822, Henry Field,
US author, was born (died 26/1/1907).
24/3/1822, Henry Murger,
French writer, was born (died 28/1/1861).
10/2/1822, Eliza Linton,
English novelist, was born (died 14/7/1898).
8/2/1822, Maxime du Camp,
French writer, was born (died 9/2/1894).
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12/12/1821, Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, was born (died 8/5/1880).
11/12/1821, George Bradley,
English scholarly writer, was born in Brecon (died 13/31903).
11/8/1821, Octave Feuillet,
French novelist, was born (died 29/12/1890).
30/10/1821, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist,
was born.
15/10/1821, Moritz Hartmann,
German poet, was born (died 13/5/1872).
13/10/1821, Henry Coppee,
US author, was born (died 22/3/1895).
5/10/1821, Rudolf Haym,
German writer, was born (died 27/8/1901).
1/8/1821, Elizabeth
Inchbald, English novelist, died (born 15/10.1753).
21/7/1821, Vasile
Alecsandri, Rumanian poet, was born in Bacau, Moldova (died
26/8/1890 in Mircesti).
1/7/1821, Anatole
Barthelemy, French writer, was born in Reims (died 1904).
30/6/1821, William Dixon,
English author, was born (died 26/12/1879).
13/6/1821, Jacques Duc de
Broglie, poet, was born (died 19/1/1901).
29/5/1821, Frederick Locker-Lampson, English
writer, was born (died 30/5/1895).
19/5/1821, Camille Jordan,
French political writer, died.
23/4/1821, Pierre Dupont,
French song writer, was born (died 24/7/1870).
9/4/1821, Charles
Baudelaire, French poet, was born in Paris (died in Paris
31/8/1867).
30/3/1821, James Hadley,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 14/11/1872).
17/3/1821, Louis Fontanes,
French poet, died (born 6/3/1757),
16/3/1821, Ernest-Aime
Feydeau, French writer, was born (died 27/10/1873).
2/3/1821, George Banks,
British writer, was born in Birmingham (died in London 3/5/1881).
26/2/1821, Joseph de
Maistre, French polemical writer, died (born 1/4/1754).
23/2/1821, John Keats,
English poet, died of tuberculosis in
Rome, aged only 25.
21/2/1821, Georg Martens,
German legal writer, died (born 22/2/1756).
13/2/1821, Julius Busch,
German publicist, was born (died 16/11/1899).
6/1/1821, Jakob
Frohschammer, German scholarly writer, was born (died 14/6/1893).
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12/11/1820, William Hayley,
English writer, died (born 9/11/1745).
23/9/1820, Carl
Fleickeisen, German writer, was born (died 7/8/1899).
17/9/1820, Guillaume
Augier, French dramatist, was born in Valence, Drome (died
25/10/1889 in Croissy).
13/8/1820, Sir George
Grove, English writer on music, was born (died 28/5/1900).
14/6/1820, John Bartlett,
US writer, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (died in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
3/12/1905.
10/5/1820, Hermann Ebel,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 19/8/1875).
4/5/1820, English publisher, Joseph Whitaker, was born in
London, the son of a silversmith.
26/4/1820, Alice Cary,
US poet, was born (died 12/2/1871).
16/4/1820, Georg Curtius,
German writer, was born (died 12/8/1885).
2/4/1820, Easter Sunday.
Thomas Brown,
Scottish writer, died (born 1778).
30/3/1820, Anna Sewell,
author of Black Beauty, was born in
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
17/3/2020, Jean Ingelow,
English poet, was born (died 20/7/1897).
2/3/1820, Edward Dekker,
Dutch writer, was born (died 19/2/1887).
1/3/1820, Johann Joachim
Eschenburg, literary critic, died.
17/1/1820, The novelist Anne Bronte (known as Acton Bell)
was born, youngest of three sisters, at Thornton, Yorkshire.
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30/12/1819, Theodor Fontane,
German novelist, was born (died 20/9/1898).
23/11/1819, Quintin
Crauford, British author, died (born 22/9/1743).
22/11/1819, Novelist George Elliot was born as Marian Evans, near Nuneaton.
19/10/1819, Hugh Munro,
British scholarly writer, was born (died 30/3/1885).
30/6/1819, Ernst Gerber,
German musical writer, died (born 29/9/1746).
16/9/1819, Anna
Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist, was born in Alkmaar (died in The
Hague, 13/4/1886).
1/8/1819, Herman Melville,
author of Moby Dick, was born.
24/7/1819, Josiah Holland,
US writer, was born (died 12/10/1881).
19/7.1819, Gottfried
Keller, German novelist, was born (died 15/7/1890).
12/6/1819, Charles
Kingsley, English novelist, was born (died 23/1/1875).
31/5/1819, Walt Whitman,
poet, was born.
24/4/1819, Klaus Groth,
German poet, was born (died 1/6/1899).
22/4/1819, Friedrich
Bodenstedt, German author, was born in Hanover (died in Wiesbaden
19/4/1892).
23/3/1819, August Kotzebue,
German dramatist, died (born 3/5/1761).
8/2/1819, John Ruskin,
English writer and art critic, was
born in Dulwich, London, the son of a wine dealer.
21/1/1819, Edward Capern,
English poet, was born (died 5/6/1894).
12/1/1819, Andre Morellet,
French writer, died (born 7/3/1727).
1/1/1819, Arthur Clough,
English poet, was born (died13/11/1861).
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27/12/1818, Henry Drisler,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 30/11/1897).
19/12/1818, Mary Brunton,
Scottish novelist, died (born 1/11/1778).
22/10/1818, Charles Leconte,
French poet, was born (died 18/7/1894).
18/10/1818, Charles Mudie,
Engliah publisher, was born (died 28/10/1890).
16/9/1818, Sir Francis
Haden, English arts writer, was born (died 1/6/1910).
13/9/1818, Gustave Aimarde,
French novelist, was born in Paris (died 20/6/1883 in Paris).
30/7/1818, Novelist Emily Bronte
was born at Thornton, Yorkshire. On of the three famous sisters, she wrote Wuthering
Heights under the name of Ellis Bell in 1846.
28/7/1818, Edward Cope,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 5/8/1873).
18/7/1818, Louis de Geer,
Swedish writer, was born (died 1896).
25/5/1818, Jakob
Burckhardt, Swiss writer on art, was born (died 1897).
14/5/1818, Matthew Lewis,
romance writer, died (born 9/7/1775).
4/5/1818, Manuel Mila,
Spanish scholarly writer, was born (died 16/7/1884).
13/4/1818, Fedor Buslaev,
Russian scholarly writer, was born (died 1898).
15/3/1818, Hector MacNeill,
Scottish poet, died.
7/2/1818, Francois
Meurice, French dramatist, was born (died 12/12/1905).
1/1/1818, Mary Shelley�s
novel Frankenstein was published. It
was subtiiled �The Modern Prometheus�.
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31/12/1817, James Fields,
US author, was born (died 24/4/1881).
27/12/1817, Henry Thoreau,
writer, was born in Concord, Massachusetts.
25/10/1817, Lothar Bucher,
German writer, was born (died 12/10/1892).
24/9/1817, Ramon de
Campoamor, Spanish poet, was born (died 12/2/1901).
27/9/1817, Paul Feval,
French novelist, was born (died 8/3/1887).
15/8/1817, Roswell
Hitchcock, US writer, was born (died 16/6/1887).
18/7/1817, Jane Austen, novelist,
died, at her house in Winchester.
12/7/1817, David Henry
Thoreau, writer, was born.
13/6/1817, Richard
Edgeworth, British writer, died (born 31/5/1744).
26/5/1817, Denis MacCarthy,
Irish poet, was born (died 7/4/1882).
22/5/1817, Sir George
Dasent, English writer, was born (died 11/6/1896).
3/5/1817, Horatio Hale,
US ethnological writer, was born (died 28/12/1896).
15/4/1817, Benjamin Jowett,
scholarly writer, was born (died 1/10/1893).
13/4/1817, George Holyoake,
English writer, was born (died 22/1/1906).
2/4/1817, Johann Jung,
German author, died (born 12/9/1740).
23/3/1817, Louis Maury,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 11/2/1892).
25/2/1817, Gottleib
Hufeland, German scholarly writer, died (born 19/10/1760).
23/2/1817, John Brown,
Scottish writer, was born (died 20/9/1856).
23/1/1817, John Cassell,
British publisher, was born (died 2/4/1865).
12/1/1817, Juan Andres,
Spanish writer, died in Rome (born 1740 in Planes, Valencia).
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1/11/1816, Friedrich
Hacklander, German novelist, was born (died 6/7/1877).
9/10/1816, Edward
Blomfield, English scholarly writer, died� in Cambridge (born in Bury St Edmunds
14/2/1788).
16/9/1816, Sir Theodore
Martin, British author, was born (died 18/8/1909).
13/7/1816, Gustav Freytag,
German novelist, was born (died 30/4/1895)
10/5/1816, Friedrich
Gerstacker, German novelist, was born (died 31/5/1872).
29/4/1816, Charles Brooks,
English novelist, was born (died 23/2/1874).
26/4/1816, Sir Herbert
Croft, English author, died (born 1/11/1751).
25/4/1816, Byron, poet, sailed
from Dover to self-imposed exile in Italy.
22/4/1816, Philip Bailey,
English poet, was born in Nottingham (died 6/9/1902).
21/4/1816, Charlotte Bronte, eldest of
the three literary sisters, was born
in Thornton, daughter of a Yorkshire clergyman.
17/4/1816, Samuel Austin
Allibone, author, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. (died, Lucerne,
Switzerland,� 2/9/1889.
12/4/1816, Sir Charles
Duffy, Irish writer, was born (died 9/2/1903).
31/12/1815, Sir Edward Bond,
English librarian, was born in Hanwell (died 2/1/1898).
11/11/1815, Pierre Ginguene,
French writer, died (born 27/4/1748).
17/10/1815, Emanuel Geibel,
German poet, was born (died 6/4/1884).
11/8/1815, Johann Kinkel,
German poet, was born (died 13/11/1882).
6/7/1815, Theodore la
Villemarque, French writer, was born (died 8/12/1895).
5/5/1815, Eugene Labiche,
French dramatist, was born (died 23/1/1888).
24/4/1815, Anthony
Trollope, British
writer, was born.
15/2/1815, Rufus Griswold,
US writer, was born (died 27/8/1857).
24/1/1815, Thomas Gee,
Welsh writer, was born (died 28/9.1898).
21/1/1815, Matthias
Claudius, German poet, died (born 15/8/1740).
14/10/1814, Thomas Davis,
Irish poet, was born (died 15/9/1845).
22/9/1814, August Iffland,
German dramatist, died (born 19/4/1759).
7/9/1814, Pierre Malouet,
French writer, died (born 11/2/1740).
28/8/1814, Joseph Sheridan
le Fanu, Irish author, was born (died 7/2/1873).
29/7/1814, Herman Bonitz,
German scholarly writer, was born in Saxony (died in Berlin 25/7/1888)
30/6/1814, Franz
Dinglestedt, German poet, was born (died 15/5/1881).
14/6/1814, Alexander Ellis,
writer, was born (died 28/10/1890).
1/6/1814, Francois
Ponsard, French dramatist, was born (died 7/7/1867).
25/4/1814, Louis Mercier,
French writer, died (born 6/6/1740).
23/3/1814, Gertrudis Gomez,
Spanish novelist, was born (died 2/2/1873).
28/2/1814, William
Kingston, English novelist, was born (died 5/8/1880).
27/2/1814, Julien Geoffroy,
French writer, died (born 1743).
10/1/1814, Aubrey de Vere,
Irish poet, was born (died 20/1/1902).
5/1/1814, Sir John Burke,
British genealogical writer, author of Burke�s
Peerage, was born (died 12/12/1892).
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21/12/1813, Ernst Lange,
German novelist, was born (died 20/2/1899).
2/12/1813, Matthias
Castren, Finnish scholarly writer, was born (died 7/5/1853).
28/11/1813, Carel Cobet,
Dutch scholarly writer, was born (died 26/10/1889).
30/11/1813, Louise
Ackermann, French poet (died in Nice, 2/8/1890) was born in Paris.
29/11/1813, Franz von
Milklosich, Austrian scholarly writer, was born (died 7/3/1891).
14/11/1813, Antonio de
Capmany y Montpalau, Spanish author (born 24/11/1742) died.
20/10/1813, George Cotton, English educationalist, was
born (died 6/10/1866).
13/9/1813, Jozsef Eotvos,
Hungarian writer, was born (died 2/2/1871).
9/9/1813, Henry Reeve,
English publicist, was born (died 21/10/1895).
18/7/1813, Charles Badham, English scholarly writer, was
born in Ludlow, Shropshire (died 26/2/1884 in Sydney, Australia).
20/6/1813, Joseph Autran,
French poet, was born in Marseilles (died in Marseilles 6/3/1877).
1/5/1813, Jacques Delille,
French poet, died (born 22/6/1738).
11/4/1813, Eugene Havet,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 21/12/1889).
11/3/1813, William Lloyd,
English writer, was born (died 22/12/1893).
30/1/1813, George
Gilfillan, Scottish author, was born (died 13/8/1878).
28/1/1813, Jane Austin�s
book, Pride and Prejudice, first
appeared in Birtish bookshops, priced at 18 shillings (90p) for 3 volumes.
Sales were initially slow but then grew. She began writing the work in 1796,
originally calling it First Impressions.
26/1/1813, Jan Frederik
Helmers, Dutch poet, died (born 7/3/1767).
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24/12/1812, Joel Barlow,
US poet, died in Poland (born in Redding, Connecticut 24/3/1754)
3/12/1812, Hendrik
Conscience, Flemish writer, was born (died 10/9/1883).
4/11/1812, Aleardo Aleardi,
Italian poet, was born at Verona (died 17/7/1878).
10/10/1812, Janos Garay,
Hungarian poet, was born (died 5/11/1853).
25/9/1812, Friedrich
Biedermann, German writer, was born in Leipzig (died in Leipzig
5/3/1901).
23/9/1812, Lady Georgiana
Fullerton, English novelist, was born (died 19/1/1885).
28/7/1812, Joseph
Kraszewski, Polish novelist, was born (died 19/3/1887).
14/7/1812, Christian
Heyne, German scholarly writer, died (born 25/9/1729).
5/7/1812, Gutierrez
Garcia, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 6/8/1884).
23/5/1812, Louis Dutens,
French writer, died (born 15/1/1730).
22/5/1812, Theodor Bergk,
German scholarly writer, was born in Leipzig (died in Ragatz, Switzerland,
20/7/1881).
12/5/1812, Eccentric poet and artist Edward Lear was born at
Highgate, London.
7/5/1812, Robert Browning,
English poet, was born.
25/4/1812, Edmond Malone,
Irish literary writer, died (born 4/10/1741).
2/4/1812, John Forster,
English writer, was born (died 2/2/1876).
7/3/1812, Guiseppe
Ferrari, Italian scholarly writer, was born (died 1876).
13/1/1812, Pierre Laprade,
French poet, was born (died 13/12/1883).
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17/12/1811, Louis Beffroy,
French dramatist, died in Paris (born in Laon 6/11/1757).
26/11/1811, Joseph Hubner,
Austrian writer, was born (died 30/7/1892).
21/11/1811, Bernd Kleist,
|German poet, died (born 18/10/1777).
20/9/1811, Henry Coxe,
English scholarly writer was born (died 8/7/1881).
14/9/1811, James Grahame,
Scottish poet, died (born 22/4/1765).
26/7/1811, Heinrich Collin,
Austrian dramatist, died (26/12/1771).
18/7/1811, William
Thackeray, poet, was born in Calcutta, India; his father was an
official of the East India Company.
16/7/1811, Armand
Pontmartin, French
writer, was born (died 29/3/1890).
14/6/1811, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, author
of Uncle Tom�s Cabin, was born.
7/6/1811, John Donaldson,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 10/2/1861).
20/5/1811, Alfred Domett,
English poet, was born (died 2/11/1887).
7/5/1811, Richard
Cumberland, English dramatist, died (born 19/2/1732).
25/3/1811, Poet Shelley was sent down from Oxford for
publishing The Necessity of Atheism.
17/3/1811, Karl Gutzkow,
German novelist, was born (died 16/12/1878).
6/2/1811, Henry Liddell,
English writer, was born (died 18/1/1898).
21/1/1811, Julius Benedix,
German dramatist, was born in Leipzig (died in Leipzig 26/9/1873).
3/1/1811, John Morton,
English playwright, was born (died 19/12/1891).
11/12/1810, Louis Musset,
French novelist, was born (died 2/5/1857).
4/11/1810, Antonio
Gallenga, Italian author, was born (died 17/12/1895).
12/10/1810, Samuel Laing,
British author, was born (died 6/8/1897).
7/10/1810, Henry Alford, English scholarly writer (died
12/1/1871 in Canterbury) was born in London.
22/9/1810, John Brown,
Scottish author, was born (died 11/5/1882).
15/9/1810, Louise Colet,
French poet, was born (died 8/3/1876).
28/8/1810, Jaime Balmes,
Spanish writer, was born in Vich, Catalonia (died in Vich 9/7/1848).
17/8/1810, Ferdinand
Feiligrath, German poet, was born (died 18/3/1876).
4/8/1810, Georges Guerin,
French poet, was born (died 19/7/1839).
26/7/1810, Henry Christy,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 4/5/1865).
28/6/1810, Melchior Meyr,
German writer, was born (died 22/4/1871).
7/6/1810, Friedrich
Hammer, German poet, was born (died 23/8/1862).
24/5/1810, Abraham Geiger,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 23/10/1874).
23/5/1810, Margaret Fuller,
US authoress, was born (died 16/6/1850).
9/4/1810, Hegesippe Moreau,
French poet, was born (died 20/12/1838).
27/3/1810, Adolf
Glasbrenner, German satirical writer, was born (died 25/9/1876).
10/3/1810, Sir Samuel
Ferguson, Irish poet, was born (died 9/8/1886).
22/2/1810, Charles Brown,
US novelist, died (born 28/2/1761).
4/1/1810, Catherine
Dashkov, Russian writer, died (born 1744).
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18/12/1809,
Alexander Adam, Scottish writer
died (born 24/6/1741, near Forres).
27/11/1809, Frances Kemble, author, was born (died 15/1/1893).
20/11/1809, William Chappell, English writer on music, was born (died 1888).
6/9/1809, Bruno Bauer, German writer,
was in Elsenburg (died in Rixdorf 13/4/1882).
29/8/1809, Oliver Wendell Holmes, US writer, was born (died 7/10.1894).
6/8/1809, Alfred Lord
Tennyson, poet,
was born.
24/6/1809, Xavier Marmier,
French author, was born (died 11/10/1892).
19/6/1809, Richard
Houghton, English poet, was born (died 11/8/1885).
6/6/1809, Franz Ahrens, German scholarly writer (died
25/9/1881) was born.
6/5/1809, Cortes Donoso,
Spanish author, was born (died 3/5/1853).
5/4/1809, Carl Halm,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 5/10/1882).
31/3/1809, Nikolai Gogol, Russian
author, was born in Sorochinsty,
Poltava.
23/3/1809, Thomas Holcroft,
English writer, died (born 10/12/1745).
11/3/1809, Hannah Cowley,
English poet, died (born 1743).
10/3/1809, Thomas Hake,
English poet, was born (died 11/1/1895).
28/1/1809, Theodor Benfrey,
German writer, was born neat Gottingen (died in Gottingen 26/6/1881)
19/1/1809, Edgar Allen Poe,
American writer of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, of
theatrical parents.
6/1/1809, Johann Eberhard,
German scholarly writer, died (born 1739).
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24/11/1808, Jean Karr,
French novelist, was born (died 29/9/1890).
2/11/1808, Jules Barbey,
French writer, was born (died in Paris 23/4/1889).
22/9/1808, George Hillard,
US author, was born (died 21/1/1879).
19/9/1808, Theodor Mundt,
German author, was born (died 30/11/1861).
5/9/1808, John Home,
Scottish poet, died (born 22/9/1722).
27/7/1808, Moritz Haupt,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 5/2/1874).
5/7/1808, Jacques
Demogeot, French writer was born (died 1894).
22/5/1808, Gerard de
Nerval, French writer, was born (died 25/1/1855).
25/3/1808, Jose Espronceda,
Spanish poet, was born (died 23/5/1842).
12/4/1808, Pauline Craven,
French author, was born (died 1/4/1891).
20/3/1808, Charles Cooper,
English writer, was born (died 21/3/1866).
22/1/1808, James Ferguson,
Scottish architectural writer, was born (died 9/1/1886).
4/1/1808, Friedrich Haase,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 16/8/1867).
19/12/1807, Friedrich Grimm,
French author, died (born 26/12/1723).
16/11/1807, Jonas
Hallgrimson, poet, was born.
6/11/1807, Cornelius
Felton, US scholarly writer, was born (died 26/2/1862).
13/10/1807, Hans Gabelentz,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 3/9/1874).
31/8/1807, Ponce Lebrun,
French poet, (died (born 11/8/1729)
8/8/1807, Emilie Flygare,
Swedish novelist, was born (died 5/2/1892).
28/6/1807, Richard
Hildreth, US writer, was born (died 11/7/1865).
25/4/1807, Marie Cottin,
French novelist, died (born 1770).
13/3/1807, Reinhold Klotz,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 10/8/1870).
27/2/1807, Henry
Longfellow, US poet, was born (died 24/3/1882).
5/2/1807, Gabriel Legouve,
French dramatist, was born (died 14/3/1903).
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8/11/1806, Eugene de Bully,
French writer, was born in Paris (died in Paris 27/8/1866).
18/9/1806, Heinrich Laube,
German novelist, was born (died 1/8/1884).
6/9/1806, Juan
Hartzenbusch, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 1880).
1/9/1806, Leon Gozlan,
French novelist, was born (died 14/9/1866).
31/8/1806, Charles Lever,
Irish novelist, was born (died 1/6/1872).
7/5/1806, Pascual Madoz,
Spanish writer, was born.
29/4/1806, Ernst
Feuchtersleben, Austrian poet, was born (died 3/9/1849).
27/4/1806, Paul Lacroix,
French author, was born (died 16/10/1884).
21/4/1806, Sir George
Lewis, English writer, was born.
11/4/1806, Anton Auersperg,
Austrian poet, was born in Laibach (died in Graz 12/9/1876).
4/4/1806, Carlo Gozzi,
Italian dramatist, died (born 3/1722).
28/3/1806, Carl Nagelsbach,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 21/4/1859).
6/3/1806, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, poet, was born.
3/3/1806, Heinrich Boie,
German author, died in Meldorf (born in Meldorf 19/7/1744).
24/2/1806, Jean Collin
D�Harleville, French dramatist, died (born 30/5/1755).
19/2/1806, Elizabeth
Carter, English poet, died (born 16/12/1717)
27/1/1806, Wilhelm Freund,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 4/6/1894).
15/1/1806, Andre Hasselt,
Belgian poet, was born (died 1/12/1874).
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21/12/1805, Manuel Bocage,
Portuguese poet, died (born 1765).
12/10/1805, The Theatre Royal, Bath, was founded.
18/9/1805, John Abbott,
US writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine.
3/8/1805, Christopher
Anstey, poet, died (born 31/10/1724 in Brinkley, Cambridgeshire).
27/6/1805, Francis Newman,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 7/10/1897).
22/6/1805, Ida Hahn-Hahn,
German author, was born (died 12/1/1880).
18/6/1805, Arthur Murphy,
Irish dramatist, died (born 27/12/1727).
29/4/1805, Henri Barbier,
French poet, was born in Paris (died in Nice 13/2/1882).
2/4/1805, Hans Christian Anderson, Danish fairy tale writer, was born in Odense, son of
a shoemaker.
10/3/1805, Auguste Gratry,
French author, was born (died 6/2/1872).
4/2/1805, William Ainsworth, English
novelist (died 3/1/1882) was born.
1/1/1805, Jean
Latude, French writer and prisoner in the Bastille, died (born
23/3/1725).
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24/12/1804, Ludwig Huber,
German author, died (born 14/9/1764).
6/11/1804, Benjamin
Kennedy, English scholarly writer, was born (died 6/4/1889).
8/9/1804, Eduard
Morike, German poet, was born (died 4/6/1875).
7/8/1804, Johan
Madvig, Danish scholarly writer, was born (died 12/12/1886).
4/7/1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne, US writer,
was born (died 19/5/1864).
1/7/1804, Writer George
Sand (born Amamdine Duvant) was born.
15/5/1804, Samuel
Blanchard, British author, was born in Great Yarmouth (died
15/2/1845).
27/4/1804, Jonathan
Boucher, English scholarly writer, died in Epsom, Surrey (born near
Wigton 12/3/1738).
16/2/1804, Jules Janin,
French writer, was born (died 19/6/1874).
26/1/1804, Delphine de
Girardin, French author, was born (died 29/6/1855)
31/12/1803, Jose Heredia,
Cuban poet, was born (died 21/5/1839).
20/12/1803, Samuel Hopkins,
US writer, died (born 17/9/1721).
18/12/1803, Johann Herder,
German writer, died (born 25/8/1744).
12/12/1803, Gerald Griffin,
Irish novelist, was born (died 12/6/1840).
3/12/1803, Robert Hawker,
English poet, was born (died 15/8/1875).
16/11/1803, Georg Ewald,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 4/5/1875).
14/11/1803, Jacob Abbott,
US writer of books for children, was born in Hallowell, Maine.
8/11/1803, Henry Bell,
Scottish writer, was born in Glasgow (died 7/11/1874).
8/10/1803, Alfieri,
poet, died in Florence.
28/9/1803, Prosper
Merimee, French novelist, was born (died 23/9/1870).
22/9/1803, Angelo Fabbroni,
Italian biographer, died (born 25/9/1732).
16/9/1803, Orestes Bronson,
US writer, was born (died 17/4/1876).
12/9/1803, Julien Brizeux,
poet, was born (died 3/5/1858).
27/8/1803, Edward Beecher,
US writer, was born in East Hampton, Long Island (died in Brooklyn, New York,
28/7/1895).
18/8/1803, James Beattie,
Scottish poet, died (born in Kincardine 25/10/1735).
20/7/1803, Thomas Beddoes,
English dramatist, was born in Clifton (died 26/1/1849).
22/6/1803, Johann Heinse,
German author, died (born 16/2/1749).
12/6/1803, Richard Brunck,
French scholarly writer, died (born 30/12/1729).
31/5/1803, Robert Jephson,
British dramatist, died (born 1736).
25/5/1803, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, US poet and
essayist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1/5/1803, James
Mangan, Irish poet, was born (died 20/6/1849).
28/4/1803, Johann Carpzov,
scholarly writer, died (born 1720).
2/4/1803, John Hoole, English author, died
(born 1727).
14/3/1803, Gottleib
Kloppstock, German poet, died (born 2/7/1724).
18/2/1803, Johann Gleim,
German poet, died (born 2/4/1719).
6/2/1803, Georg Fulleborn, German
scholarly writer, died (born 2/3/1769).
3/1/1803, Douglas Jerrold, English
writer,was born (died 8/6/1857).
1/1/1803, Richard Horne, English poet, was
born (died 13/3/1884).
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23/12/1802, Sara Coleridge,
English author, was born (died 3/5/1852).
20/12/1802, Johann Dubner,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 13/12/1867).
29/11/1802, Wilhelm Hauff,
German poet, was born (died 18/11/1827).
5/10/1892, Ernst Ettmuller,
scholarly writer, was born (died 4/1877).
17/9/1802, Richard
Cambridge, English poet, died (born 14/2/1717).
14/9/1802, John Buckstone,
English dramatic writer, was born (died 31/10/1879).
28/8/1802, Thomas Aird,
Scottish poet, was born in Bowden, Roxburghshire (died 25/4/1867 in Dumfries).
15/8/1802, Nikolaus
von Strehlenau, Austrian poet, was born (died 22/8/1850).
14/8/1802, Letitia
Landon, English poet and novelist, was born (died 15/10/1838).
24/7/1802, Alexandre Dumas,
French novelist, was born (died 5/12/1870).
10/7/1802, Robert Chambers, Scottish bookseller and
publisher, was born in Peebles (died 17/3/1871).
4/7/1802, Bela Edwards, US writer, was
born (died 20/4/1852).
28/6/1802, Johann Engel,
German author, died (born 11/9/1741).
12/6/1802, Harriet
Martineau, English writer, was born (died 27/6/1876).
5/6/1802, Johann Ernesti, German scholarly
writer, died
2/6/1802, Karl
Lehrs, German scholarly writer, was born (died 9/6/1878).
23/5/1802, Francois Feller,
Belgian author, died (born 18/8/1735).
9/4/1802, Elias
Lonnrot, Finnish writer, was born (died 19/3/1884).
26/2/1802, Victor Hugo,
French poet and novelist, was born
in Besancon, the son of a professional soldier.
19/2/1802, Leonard Bacon,
writer, was born in Detroit, Michigan (died 24/12/1881 in New Haven,
Connecticut).
11/2/1802, Lydia Child,
US author, was born (died 20/10/1880).
13/1/1802, Edouard
Bauernfeld, Austrian dramatist, was born in Vienna (died in Vienna
9/8/1890).
2/1/1802, Karl Dindorf, German scholarly
writer, was born (died 1/8/1883).
25/12/1801, Hester Chapone,
English writer, died (born 27/10/1727).
11/12/1801, Christian
Grabbe, German dramatist, was born (died 12/9/1836).
4/12/1801, Karl
Michelet, German philosophical writer, was born (died 16/12/1893).
22/11/1801, Abraham Hayward,
English writer, was born (died 2/2/1884).
4/11/1801, Louis Fontan,
French writer, was born (died�
10/10/1839).
17/8/1801, Fredrika Bremer,
novelist, was born (died 31/12/1865).
31/5/1801, Johann Baiter,
Swiss writer, was born in Zurich (died in Zurich 10/10/1877).
5/4/1801, Easter Sunday: Vincenzo
Gioberti, Italian writer, was born (died 26/10/1852).
20/3/1801, Bogumil Goltz,
German writer, was born (died 12/11/1870).
15/3/1801, George
Marsh, US scholarly writer, was born (died 23/7/1882).
21/2/1801, Heinrich
Fleischer, German writer on The Orient, was born (died 10/2/1888).
13/2/1801, Sir Henry
Bulwer, British author, was born (died 23/5/1872).
2/1/1801, Johann
Lavater, German poet, died (born 15/11/1741).
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22/11/1800, Jules Bastide,
French writer, was born in Paris (died 2/3/1879).
4/11/1800, George
Long, English scholarly writer, was born (died 10/8/1879).
29/9/1800, Johann Denis,
Austrian poet, died (born 27/9/1729).
12/8/1800, Jean Jacques
Ampere, writer, son of the famous scientist, was born in Lyons (died
27/3/1864 in Pau).
23/6/1800, Charlotte
Birch-Pfieffer, German dramatist, was born in Stuttgart (died in
24/8/1868).
8/5/1800, Jean Carrel, French publicist,
was born (died 24/7/1836).
5/5/1800, Louis Hachette, French
publisher, was born (died 31/7/1864).
23/4/1800, William Cowper,
English poet, died (born 26/1/1731).
16/4/1800, William
Chambers, Scottish publisher, was born (died 20/5/1883).
18/3/1800, Francis
Lieber, US-German writer, was born (died 2/10/1872).
12/3/1800, Louis Gachard,
Belgian writer, was born (died 24/12/1885).
22/2/1800, William Barnes,
poet, was born in Rushay, Dorset (died in Winterbourne 7/10/1886).
16/1/1800, Robert Bell,
Irish writer, was born in Cork (died 12/4/1867).
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30/12/1799, John
Moultrie, English poet, was born (died 26/12/1874).
27/12/1799, Calderon
Estebanez, Spanish author, was born (died 5/2/1867).
29/11/1799, Amos Bronson
Alcott, US writer, was born in Wolcott, Connecticut (died 4/3/1888
in Boston).
9/8/1799, George James, English novelist,
was born (died 9/6/1860).
9/7/1799, William
Mure, Scottish scholarly writer, was born (died 1/4/1860).
6/6/1799, Alexander
Pushkin Russian writer,
was born
29/5/1799, August Kopisch,
German poet, was born (died 3/2/1853).
20/5/1799, Honore de
Balzac born.
18/5/1799, Pierre
Beaumarchais, French dramatist, died in Paris (born in Paris
24/1/1732).
20/3/1799, Thomas Key,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 29/11/1875).
17/3/1799, Juan Forner,
Spanish writer, died (born 23/2/1756).
6/1/1799, Nicolas Geruzez,
French writer, was born (died 29/5/1865)
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30/12/1798, Anne
Montesquiou, French writer, died.
13/12/1798, James
Henry,
Irish scholarly writer, was born (died14/7/1876).
8/11/1798, Victor Chasles,
French writer, was born (died 18/7/1873).
25/8/1798, Henrik Hertz,
Danish poet, was born (died 25/2/1870).
29/6/1798, Willibald
Alexis, novelist (died 16/12/1871 in Arnstadt, Thuringia) was born
in Breslau.
20/6/1798, Jeremy Belknap,
US author, died in Boston (born in Boston 4/6/1744).
16/5/1798, Joesph Eckhel,
Austrian writer, died (born 1737).
3/4/1798, John Banim,
Irish novelist, was born in Kilkenny (died in Booterstown 30/8/1874).
2/4/1798, August Hoffmann,
German writer, was born (died 19/1/1874).
6/3/1798, Jacques Jasmin,
French poet,was born (died 4/10/1864).
17/2/1798, Friedrich
Beneke, German writer, was born in Berlin (died 1854).
24/1/1798, Karl Holtei,
German poet, was born (died 12/2/1880).
15/1/1798, Thomas Croker,
Irish writer, was born (died 8/8/1854).
14/1/1798, Isaak da Costa,
Dutch poet, was born (died 28/4/1860).
5/1/1798, David Moir,
Scottish writer, was born (died 6/7/1851).
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13/10/1797, Thomas Bayly,
English writer, was born in Bath (died 22/4/1839).
4/10/1797, Albrecht
Bitzius, Swiss novelist, was born in Morat (died 22/10/1854).
30/8/1797, Mary Shelley,
English
novelist, best known as the author of Frankenstein,
was born in London.
28/8/1797, Karl Muller,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 1/8/1840).
25/8/1797, Jean Louvet de
Couvrai, French writer, died (born 12/6/1760).
11/8/1797, A secret
Home Office report suspected Coleridge and the Wordsworths of being enemy
agents, because of their wandering around the countryside with campstools and
making detailed sketches of the landscape.
11/7/1797, Charles Macklin,
Irish playwright, died.
7/4/1797, William Mason,
English poet, died (died 12/2/1725).
18/3/1797, Friedrich
Gotter, German poet, died (born 3/9/1746).
24/2/1797, Samuel Lover,
Irish novelist, was born (died 6/7/1868).
7/3/1797, Johann Formey,
Franco-German author, died (born 31/5/1711).
10/1/1797, Annette
Droste-Hulshoff, German poet, was born (died 24/5/1848).
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24/12/1796, Spanish
novelist Cecilia
Larrea (Fernan Caballero) was born (died 7/4/1877).
19/12/1796, Manuel Breton
de los Herreros, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 8/11/1873).
19/9/1796, Hartley
Coleridge, English writer, was born (died 6/1/1849).
21/7/1796, Robert Burns, Scottish poet, died aged 37 in Dumfries, and was
buried there.� He was born on 25/1/1759,
the eldest son of a poor peasant farmer, about 2 miles from Ayr, at Alloway.
6/5/1796, Adolf Knigge,
German author, died.
24/4/1796, Karl Immerman,
German dramatist, was born (died 25/8/1840).
23/4/1796, Theodor Hippel,
German writer, died (born 31/1/1741)
19/4/1796, Bernhard Beskow,
Swedish dramatist, was born (died 17/10/1868).
1/2/1796, Abraham
Frohlich, Swiss poet, was born (died 1/12/1865).
4/1/1796, Henry Bohn,
British publisher, was born in London (died in Twickenham 22/8/1884).
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5/9/1795, Karl Follen, German poet, was
born (died 14/1/1840).
3/7/1795, Louis Brequigny, scholarly
writer, died (born 22/2/1714).
19/5/1795, James Boswell,
Scottish diarist and biographer
of Dr
Johnson, died in London, aged 54.
30/4/1795, Jean Jacques
Barthelemy, French writer, died (born in Cassis, Provence
20/1/1716).
20/4/1795, Johan
Kellgren, Swedish poet, died (born 1/1/21751).
11/2/1795, Karl Bellman,
Swedish poet, died (born in Stockholm 4/2/1740).
28/11/1794, Cesare
Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian writer, died in Milan (born in Milan
15/3/1735).
22/11/1794, Alicia Cockburn,
Scottish poet, died (born 8/10/1713).
7/10/1794, Wilhelm
Muller, German lyrical poet, was born 0died 30/9/1827).
13/9/1794, Jean Florian,
French poet, died (born 6/3/1755).
25/7/1794, Andre de
Chenier, French poet, was guillotined (born 30/10/1762).
14/7/1794, John
Lockhart, Scottish writer, was born (died 25/11/1854).
8/6/1794, Gottfried Burger, German poet,
died (born 1/1/1748).
17/5/1794, Anna Jameson,
British writer, was born (died 17/3/1860).
11/4/1794, Edward Everett,
US writer, was born (died 15/1/1865).
15/3/1794, Friedrich Diaz,
German scholarly writer, was born (born 29/5/1876).
5/3/1794, Ramon
de la Cruz, Spanish dramatist, died (born 28/3/1731).
4/3/1794, William Carleton, Irish
novelist, was born (died 30/1/1869).
9/2/1794, Jacques
Ancelot, French dramatist, was born in Havre (died 1854).
21/1/1794, August Follen,
German poet, was born (died 26/12/1855).
10/1/1794, Johann Forster,
German writer, died (born 27/11/1754).
8/1/1794, Justus
Moser, German writer, died (born 14/12/1720).
25/9/1793, Felicia Hemans,
English poet, was born (died 16/5/1835).
19/8/1793, Samuel Goodrich,
US author, was born (died 9/5/1860).
10/7/1793, William
Maginn, Irish poet, was born (died 21/8/1842).
4/7/1793, Friedrich Bleek, German scholarly
writer,
was born in Holstein (died 27/2/1859).
26/6/1793, Karl
Moritz, German author, died (born 15/9/1757).
28/5/1793, Anton Busching,
scholarly writer, died (born 27/9/1724).
21/5/1793, Charles
Kock, French novelist, was born (died 27/4/1871).
3/5/1793, Martin Gerbert, German writer,
died (born 1720).
20/4/1793, David
Laing, Scottish writer, was born (died 18/10/1878).
4/4/1793, Jean Delavigne, French poet, was
born (died 11/12/1843).
4/3/1793, Karl
Lachmann, German scholarly writer, was born (died 13/3/1851).
6/2/1793, Carlo Goldoni, Italian
dramatist, died (born 25/2/1707).
1/1/1793, Sir Francis Head, English
writer, was born (died 20/7/1875).
19/1/1793, Carl Gottling,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 20/1/1869).
17/10/1792, Sir John
Bowring, writer, was born in Exeter (died near Exeter 23/11/1872).
29/9/1792, The Theatre Royal, Dumfries, was founded.