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THE LITERARY YEAR 2006
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060101
Author:Mark Sanderson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Holidays, wrote: 'The holiest of all holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; / The secret anniversaries of the heart.' The bicentenary of his birth will not be celebrated until next year but 2006 provides numerous opportunities to mark the births, deaths and publications of literary lights. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806. Fifty years later, on November 15, she published Aurora Leigh. Other notable publications of 1856 include Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, William Makepeace Thackeray's The ...
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