This Week in Literary History: April 3 to April 10
April 3: What do you think? I think F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald may be the most documented literary couple of the 20th century.
This Week in Literary History: March 28 to April 2
March 28: Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock dies in Toronto on this day in 1944 at aged 74.
This Week in Literary History: March 22 to March 27
March 22: Calling the Prince Regent a “fat Adonis of 40” will get you in trouble.
This Week in Literary History March 14 to March 20
March 14: On this day in 1826, Sir Walter Scott compares his novels with Jane Austen’s and finds himself wanting.
This Week in Literary History: March 7 to March 13
March 7: Poet James Russell Lowell arrives in London in 1880 to take up his duties as Ambassador to the Court of St. James on this day after 3 years served as Minister to Spain.
This Week in Literary History: February 27-March 6
February 27: John Steinbeck, descendent of German farmers from Heiligenhaus is born on this day in 1902 in Salinas, California.
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.
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.