GEN: Dec 22

[Deborah and Paul Connell <connellp@wantree.com.au>]

22 December doesn't seem as if it is a good day
for authors. (Taken from The Literary Calendar)

149 years ago (1849), Fyodor Dostoevsky is led out for execution, then
pardoned at the last moment.


118 years ago (1880), After returning from a trip to the Continent and
catching cold at a London concert, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) dies at
61 in Chelsea.

58 years ago (1940), Nathanael West, aged 37, and his wife, Eileen
McKenney--the heroine of Ruth McKenney's _My Sister Eileen_--are killed
in a car accident in El Centro, California.

55 years ago (1943), Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, Jeremy
Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and others, dies in
Sawrey, Lancashire.

22 years ago (1976), Martin Luis Guzman dies in Mexico City. (Pending
Entry)

9 years ago (1989), In Paris, Samuel Beckett dies.

 For literary events and subscription details,
 Literary Calendar homepage:

  http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/

Deborah Connell
Loreto Nedlands Primary
Perth, Western Australia
mailto:connellp@wantree.com.au

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