Check out some important literary events that have anniversaries this month.
6/1/1825:
Emily Brontë leaves Cowan Bridge School. Officials enter in the record book: "Subsequent career-governess." Learn about the career of this famous author at the Victorian Web.
6/2/1840:
Thomas Hardy is born in a thatched cottage in the hamlet of Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, the center of a region he will call Wessex in his novels. Learn more about Thomas Hardy and the land by viewing images and maps upon which he based Wessex.
6/3/1926:
Poet Allen Ginsberg (Howl) is born in Newark, New Jersey.
6/4/1940:
Carson McCullers, 23, publishes The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to great critical approval.
6/7/1899:
Novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen is born in Dublin. Her works will include The Hotel, The Death of the Heart, and Bowen's Court, a family history.
6/7/1917:
Pulitzer-Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks is born in Topeka, Kansas. Visit a virtual exhibit on the poet and her works at the Academy of American Poets.
6/8/1374:
Geoffrey Chaucer is appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools at 10 pounds a year.
6/9/1870:
Charles Dickens, 58, dies at his home in Gadshill, and is buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. Take a virtual tour of the famous Abbey.
6/11/1572:
Ben Jonson, playwright and poet, is born in Westminster.
6/12/1929:
Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. On her thirteenth birthday, she will receive a diary. Learn more about Anne Frank at the Anne Frank Center Online.
6/18/1746:
Samuel Johnson signs a contract for his projected 40,000-word "Johnson Dictionary." The author of the first dictionary charges London booksellers 1,575 pounds.
