The Bibliophile's Compass

🔴1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London 🔴1802 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". 🔴1862 American poet Emily Dickinson first corresponds with author and future literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a relationship that lasts the rest of her life 🔴1880 Guy de Maupassant's short story masterpiece "Boule de Suif" (Dumpling) is first published in the collection "Les Soirées de Médan" 🔴1988 Wendy Wasserstein's play "Heidi Chronicles" premieres in NYC