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2010

April

• Dickens leaves the United States, gratefully (1842)

• Uprisings and Downfalls: Troy, Sherlock Holmes, the Irish Rebellion and Brendan Behan

• Dickens Gets Hitched (1836)

February

• The End of the Affair (1893)

• Stephen Crane’s Bitter Heart (1895)

January

• The Brontës Query A Publisher (1846)

2009

August

• Emerson delivers useful advice (1837)

• Jack London, seal-skinner (1893)

June

• Mary Shelley Dreams of Frankenstein (1816)

• ‘Jane Eyre’ divides critics (1848)

• John Henry Newman looks inward (1812)

May

• A meeting of two minds (1845)

March

• Charles Dickens gets serious (1850)

• The unnatural acts of Horatio Alger (1866)

• The Scarlet Letter scandal (1850)

• Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: I ‘see your face as the face of an angel’ (1846)

February

• Shelley shoots at the devil (1813)

• That ‘cheap and pernicious’ Huck Finn (1885)

• Proust Fires First (1897)

January

• Walter Scott Hits The Skids (1826)

• Dumas Fights A Duel (1825)

2008

December

• Twain Crashes and Burns (1877)

• Shelley Does The Right Thing (1816)

• The Grinch Who Stole Santa Claus (1822)

• Saving Lieutenant Whitman (1862)

• Mark Twain Accused of Plagiarism (1889)

• Battling Book Titles (A ‘Writers 365’ Bonus)

• Great Moments in Magazine History (1860, 1887, 1953)

November

• England Taxes Jane Carlyle (1855)

• Nellie Bly Says Goodbye (1889)

October

• Mark Twain’s Massacre (1863)

• Rimbaud the Gunrunner (1885)

• Oscar Wilde Blows It (1894)

• Great Moments in Literary Sex (Part II)

• Great Moments in Literary Sex (Part I)

• The Hoax That Backfired (1877)

• Madame Bovary Gets Boinked (1856)

September

• A Poem Saves A Fighting Ship (1830)

• Stephen Crane: I Fought the Law and the Law Won (1896)

August

• Lunar tunes (1835)

• Richard Henry Dana ships out (1834)

• Thayer hits home run with ‘Casey’ (1888)

• The Fortsas Hoax and the Woolfs Marry

• Melville Climbs A Mountain And Catches A Whale (1850)

• ‘Middlemarch’ and ‘Karamazov’

July

• Shelley Takes Off (1814)

• Jack London Catches Gold Fever (1897)

• The Innocents Abroad

• Rosetta Stone, Byron and Zola

• Lord Byron’s Round Trip (1824)

• Longfellow and the Cross of Snow

• A Wasp Stings Thomas Jefferson

January

• Poe’s Poisoned Pen

2007

June

• Thoreau Down

March

• Twain’s Strike on Proofreaders

January

• Writer’s Colonies of the Dead

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