July 18

In literary history

• 1817Jane Austen died at forty-one in Winchester with Sanditon unfinished, having published all six novels anonymously. Her gravestone in the cathedral lists her virtues at length; it never thought to mention she wrote.

Writers born on July 18

• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)

The Daily Canon for July 18

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848).