April 1

In literary history

• 1854Charles Dickens began serializing Hard Times in his own weekly magazine on the first day of April. The irony of the date suited a novel about the monstrous factory logic that turns children into machines.

Writers born on April 1

• Abbé Prévost (1697),
• Nikolai Gogol (1809),
• Milan Kundera (1929)

The Daily Canon for April 1

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895).