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Events

Awards

Works published

• Robert Browning, "Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper"
• William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, and the Fall of the Niblungs

Robert Browning For information about Robert X. Browning, Director of the C-SPAN archives, see Robert X. Browning. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement William Morris, publisher Davids Charge to Solomon (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Births

• Sarah Cleghorn (died 1959), American poet and socialist

// Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood. ...

Deaths

• June 20 — John Neal, 82, author, art critic, literary critic, poet, who refused to emulate British authors by writing strictly in a clean tone, instead writing more as he spoke and allowing his characters to speak gruffly, if the story called for it; also an early women's rights advocate, prohibitionist, temperance advocate, accomplished lawyer, boxer, and architect who reportedly, at the age of 79, threw a smoker off a non-smoking trolley when the man refused to stop
• date not known — Charles Heavysege

June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... John Neal (1793 - 1876), novelist and poet, born at Portland, Maine, was self-educated, kept a dry goods store, and was afterwards a lawyer. ...

See also

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• List of years in poetry