This Week in Literature

August is CWAtC's "Quick Read" Month!

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July 28th - August 3rd

Jul 28th

• Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to France, 1814
• Beatrix Potter is born, 1866
• Natalie Babbit, author of Tuck Everlasting, is born, 1932

Jul 29th

• The Fellowship of the Rings is published in the UK, 1954

Jul 30th

• Emily Bronte is born, 1818
• Paperbacks are first introduced, 1935

Jul 31st

• J.K. Rowling, born in 1965, and Harry Potter share their birthday!

Aug 1st

• Herman Melville is born, 1819
• "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is first published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1915

Aug 2nd

• George Eliot starts Middlemarch, 1869

Aug 3rd

• The last installment of Great Expectations is published, 1861
• Joseph Conrad dies at age 66, 1924