Calendar of Literary Facts
February 16...
1821: A friend of Blackwood’s Magazine editor John Gibson Lockhart, affronted by published attacks on Lockhart, fatally wounds London Magazine editor John Scott in a duel with pistols
1838: Henry Adams is born
1900: Albert Hackett is born
1907: Giosuè Carducci dies
1944: Richard Ford is born
1992: Angela Carter dies
