This Week in Literary History: Nov 3 to Nov 10
Nov. 3: William Makepeace Thakeray completes his opus Barry Lyndon on this day in 1844.
This Week in Literary History: Oct. 24 to Nov. 2
Oct. 24: In 1958, Raymond Chandler begins work on his last book, a Philip Marlow mystery, completing four chapters of The Poodle Springs Story before his death a year later.
This Week in Literary History Oct 13 to 19
Oct. 13: In 1686, wigmaker and bookseller Allan Ramsay was born in Lanarkshire and later start Scotland’s first lending library around 1720 in Edinburgh.
This Week in Literary History: October 5th to October 12th
Oct. 5: On this day in 1829, the Comédie-Française accepts Hermani, Victor Hugo’s play about royal intrigue in the Spanish court, for publication.
This Week in Literary History: August 28 to September 5
August 28: On this day in 1929, the editing of Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel, a process he compares to putting a corset on an elephant.
This Week in Literary History: August 16 to August 24
August 16: Peggy Marsh, better known as Margaret Mitchell, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gone With The Wind dies on this day in 1949.
This Week in Literary History: August 11 to 15
August 11: Blows are exchanged between Ernest Hemingway and Max Eastman in Maxwell Perkins’ office on this day in 1937 after Hemingway rips open his shirt to show he really does have chest hair.
This Week in Literary History August 3 to August 8
The Writer’s Museum in Edinburgh dedicated to the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns.
This Week in Literary History: July 26 to August 4
July 26: On this day in 1848, Ivan Turgenev witnessed the collapse of the Revolution in Paris which he will use as material later for his novel RudinRudin published in 1855.
Special This Day in Literary History to my sister
For Christmas one year, my sister Anne gave me a book about important dates in literary history.