This Week in Literary History: February 22-25
February 22: Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is born in Rockland, Maine on this day in 1892.
In the footsteps of McTeague - San Francisco's Tenderloin Neighbourhood
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA – Elijah Glasper knocks on his own door before pushing it open into a wide wedge, allowing light from the hallway.
This Week in Literary History: February 14-21
February 14: Publishers Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, the editors of the Little Review, an influential literary magazine specializing in UK, American and Irish authors, were charged on this day in 1921 for publishing an excerpt from James Joyce’s Ulysses.
This Week in Literary History: February 7 to 13
February 7: A great place to be born: Milk Street, Cheapside. On this day in 1478, Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia is born here.
This Week in Literary History: February 1-6
February 1: The Corsair, Lord Byron’s poem about the heroic pirate captain Conrad, is published on this day in 1814.
This Week in Literary History: January 24-31
January 24: Edith Wharton is born to an old, distinguished New York family on this day in 1862.
Travels in Zurich: Fraumunster and Marc Chagall
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Artist Marc Chagall was already a tired old man in 1967 when he was invited to sit facing the blank windows of this town’s most famous church.
This Week in Literary History: January 16-22
January 16: “There are strange things done in the midnight sun” begins The Cremation of Sam McGee, a poem every Canadian student knows by heart.
This Week in Literary History January 11 to January 15
January 11: Thomas Hardy, one of England’s greatest novelists, dies on this day at age 82 in 1928 after contracting pleurisy a month earlier.
St. Petersburg and the world of Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky used the slums of St. Petersburg and Leo Tolstoy used the trappings of its upper ranks in society to make the same point in their novels.