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September 16, 1672

readeralexey — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:00:20 GMT

Anne Bradstreet, first woman poet of the American colonies, dies in Andover, Mass., aged about 60.

August 17, 1843

readeralexey — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:32:08 GMT

In Honolulu, Herman Melville signs aboard the frigate United States and begins the journey that will form the basis for White-Jacket.

August 6, 1637

readeralexey — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:00:40 GMT

Ben Jonson, dramatist, dies in London at the age of 65. He is buried in Westminster Abbey with the epitaph: "O rare Ben Jonson."

August 6, 1786

readeralexey — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:00:01 GMT

After doing public penance in a church for the sin of fornication, Robert Burns is released from marriage obligations.

August 5, 1850

readeralexey — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:00:46 GMT

At a literary picnic in New Hampshire, Herman Melville meets Nathaniel Hawthorne.

August 5, 1918

readeralexey — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:00:04 GMT

Virginia Woolf writes in her diary of Christina Rossetti: "First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry. ... Consequently, as I think, she starved into austere emaciation a very fine original gift."

August 4, 1792

readeralexey — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:00:40 GMT

Percy Bysshe Shelley is born at Warnham, near Horsham in Sussex.

August 3, 1924

readeralexey — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 21:00:11 GMT

Joseph Conrad, 66, dies suddenly of a heart attack in Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. His epitaph comes from Spenser's Faerie Queene: "Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, / Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."

August 2, 1869

readeralexey — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:00:17 GMT

George Eliot begins work on Middlemarch.

August 1, 1819

readeralexey — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:00:56 GMT

Herman Melville is born in New York City.