On this day in literature
January 1
In literary history
- 1818Mary Shelley published Frankenstein anonymously, with her husband Percy's preface; the first reviewers assumed he had written it. She was twenty years old. Her name would not appear on a title page for another five years.
Writers born on January 1
- Maria Edgeworth (1768),
- E.M. Forster (1879),
- J.D. Salinger (1919)
The Daily Canon for January 1
The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1920).