Witchflower Days: Birthdays and Events

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Birthdays and Events

This day in 1880 young George Bernard Shaw quit his job at the Edison Telephone Company in London to be a writer full time. He wrote novels. He sat in the British Museum reading room, reading and writing his first five novels—all rejected. He caught smallpox while writing one of them. It took Shaw... Sign in to see full entry.

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