Some interesting anniversaries coming up in 2020

1520 Birth of Sir Walter Mildmay

1570 Thomas Cartwright's lectures on the Acts of the Apostles

1620 The Mayflower sails for New England

1670 Death of Puritan Vavasor Powell and Educationist Jan Comenius

1770 Death of Whitefield and Welsh Methodist Howell Davies

1820 Birth of Florence Nightingale, Anna Sewell, Anne Bronte and Fanny Crosby (and Richard Redhead)

1970 Publication The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey

I'm sure there are others. Do let me know. I did have Constantine in this list for some reason but have removed him.

10 one hit wonder novels

1. Black Beauty Anna Sewell
2. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
3. Dr Zhivago Boris Pasternak
4. Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger
5. Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell
6. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
7. Leopard Giuseppe di Lampedusa
8. The God of small things Arundhati Roy
9. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe

10 famous Norfolk folk

1. Horatio Nelson
2. Robert Walpole
3. Fanny Burney
4. Anna Sewell
5. George Borrow
6. Edith Cavell
7. Bill Edrich (cricketer)
8. Henry Blogg*
9. James Dyson
10. Roger Taylor (Queen**)
* See more next blog
** Born in King's Lynn from where I write - six miles from Sandringham, home of the Queen!)
(List prompted by a visit to Norfolk)