24 March 1960. A US appeal court ruled that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by DH Lawrence was not “obscene” and could be sold in American bookshops. The book had attracted notoriety due to its explicit descriptions of sex and its use of then unprintable 4-letter words. pic.twitter.com/cEmuGCLlEv

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 24, 2023

24 March 1992. The satirical magazine, Punch, announced that it would cease publication after suffering crippling losses of £1:5M in a year. This ended a publishing tradition dating back almost 151 years. The final edition of its original run was published on 8 April 1992. pic.twitter.com/DrFD6lYRmM

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 24, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1882, poet ("Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died from peritonitis at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 75. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts https://t.co/Kf85cF2z47 pic.twitter.com/ReGRQPu6cc

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 24, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1905, novelist (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days), poet, playwright Jules Verne died at his home in Amiens, France; diabetes, aged 77. La Madeleine Cemetery in Amiens https://t.co/Kf85cF2z47 pic.twitter.com/MSgFB7rFQu

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 24, 2023

#RIP #OTD 1909 playwright (The Playboy of the Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows), poet, Irish Literary Revival key figure, John Millington Synge died; Hodgkin lymphoma; Elpis Nursing Home, Dublin, aged 37. Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross, Dublin https://t.co/Kf85cF2z47 pic.twitter.com/dmTDAeRmqz

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 24, 2023

25 March 1811. Poet Percy Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for publishing the pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, which argued people don’t choose their beliefs and thus atheists shouldn’t be persecuted. However, Shelley was probably an agnostic rather than an atheist. pic.twitter.com/TGnfkKLSnr

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 25, 2023

26 March 1885. Mrs Jeanette C. Pickersgill, who The Times described as “a well known figure in literary and scientific circles“, became the first person in the UK to be legally cremated in an official purpose built crematorium in Woking, Surrey. pic.twitter.com/zE8BPrXN9P

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 26, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1892, poet (Leaves of Grass), essayist, journalist, teacher, government clerk, volunteer nurse during the Civil War, The Father of Free Verse, Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey, age 72. Private mausoleum at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden https://t.co/Exa3VzQM0q pic.twitter.com/whc8dkLlTl

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 26, 2023

26 March 1911. Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, USA. He’s one of the leading American playwrights. His most well known plays were A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tim Roof, both of which became hugely successful Hollywood films. pic.twitter.com/DdIEDbUCyJ

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 26, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1959 novelist (The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye), screenwriter Raymond Chandler died at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla CA of pneumonia and kidney failure, aged 70. Mount Hope Cemetery, in San Diego https://t.co/Exa3VzQM0q pic.twitter.com/smCJRFqLCt

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 26, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1969, novelist (A Confederacy of Dunces) John Kennedy Toole died by carbon monoxide poisoning in Biloxi, Mississippi at the age of 31. Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans https://t.co/Exa3VzQM0q pic.twitter.com/5o9TFU4xC3

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 26, 2023

26 March 1973. Noël Coward, wit, playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, died (aged 73). He wrote more than 65 plays and musicals, and more than 20 of them were adapted into films. He acted in 17 films and composed numerous classic songs. pic.twitter.com/cPEWRiGiqF

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 26, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 2016, poet, novelist (Legends of the Fall), and essayist Jim Harrison died from a heart attack in Patagonia, Arizona at the age of 78. Final footprint unknown at this time https://t.co/Exa3VzQM0q pic.twitter.com/amooZcYEFt

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 26, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 2012 poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich died at the age of 82 in her Santa Cruz, California home from rheumatoid arthritis complications. Cremation https://t.co/FOy1ZtzZhU pic.twitter.com/sbGV9Se9Q2

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 27, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1929 professor, poet ("America the Beautiful"), author, social reformist, Katharine Lee Bates died in Wellesley, Massachusetts, while listening to a friend read poetry to her, aged 69. Oak Grove Cemetery at Falmouth, Massachusetts https://t.co/CV9xBbbNXP pic.twitter.com/w6GovWDG6B

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 28, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1941, writer (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own) Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse near Lewes, East Sussex, England, aged 59. Cremated remains in the garden of her home Monk’s House in Rodmell, Sussex https://t.co/CV9xBbbNXP pic.twitter.com/08yvOhlSkl

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 28, 2023

28 March 1894. Sylvia von Harden was born in Hamburg, Germany. She was a leading journalist but best known as subject of Otto Dix's 1926 painting entitled “Portrait of the Journalist”. This painting is recreated in the opening and closing of 1972 film, Cabaret. pic.twitter.com/b0bIXhZfg7

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 28, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1806 English aristocrat, socialite, political organiser, author, activist, known for her charisma, beauty, love affairs, and gambling, Dutchess Giorgiana Spencer Cavendish died; Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London, aged 48. Derby Cathedral https://t.co/8TUQQP4pYz pic.twitter.com/1SYA63s67J

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 30, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1631, English cleric and poet ("Death Be Not Proud", Meditation XVI) John Donne died at the age of 59 in London. Memorial in St Paul’s Cathedral, London https://t.co/K2lsQ3qGgV pic.twitter.com/PQwZicrref

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) March 31, 2023