Tag: Novel

Podcast

31st July 1703: English writer Daniel Defoe put in the pillory for seditious libel

31st July 2021
Tagged as: Crime, Culture, England, London, Non-Conformism, Novel, Pillory, Punishment, Queen Anne, Religion

The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.

Podcast

4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

4th July 2021
Tagged as: Books, Culture, England, Literature, Mathematics, Novel, Oxford, Printing

Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Podcast

18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

18th February 2020
Tagged as: African-American, America, American Civil War, Antebellum, Books, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Novel, Slavery, United States

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.