On this day in literature

January 17

In literary history

  • 1904Anton Chekhov's final play, The Cherry Orchard, opened at the Moscow Art Theatre. Chekhov had written it as a comedy; Stanislavski staged it as a tragedy; Chekhov declared him ruinous. Chekhov was dead within six months.

Writers born on January 17

The Daily Canon for January 17

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (1915).