Charles Dickens

[Clitheroekid]

It’s a little known fact that Charles Dickens first serialised ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ in the Bicester Times and the Worcester Times.

[UncleEbenezer]

It didn't even sound a far, far better joke the first time I heard it.

[brightncheerful]

A little-known fact perhaps, but a well-known old joke certainly!

Another little-known fact is that when William Shakespeare met Anne Hathaway, he wrote 'As You Like It," but after he married her, he wrote "Much Ado About Nothing".

[stewamax]

... and John Milton published Paradise Lost four years after he married for the third time.
(It is untrue, though, that he published Paradise Regained after his wife died - she outlived him)