Jan 4, 2010

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