June 14

In literary history

• 1800Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart premiered in Weimar, staging England's most famous beheading as a battle of wills between two queens. The audience knew how it ended; the question was which woman left the stage the larger.

Writers born on June 14

• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)

The Daily Canon for June 14

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1956).