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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1880
.
Contents
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
Awards
References
Events
February – The journal
Science
is first published in the United States, with financial backing from
Thomas Edison
.
[
1
]
April – Publication in France of
Les Soirées de Médan
, a collection of six
Naturalist
short stories set during the
Franco-Prussian War
by six authors who frequent
Émile Zola
's home, including
Guy de Maupassant
's first, "
Boule de Suif
", which launches his career.
[
2
]
April 20
(
O. S.
: April 8) – At the
Romanian Academy
,
Titu Maiorescu
announces a reformed
Romanian alphabet
, adopted by a commission also comprising
George Bariț
and
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
.
[
3
]
The
rationalized spelling
reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the
deep orthography
favored by "Latinists".
[
4
]
May – In the United States, the publishing business of
Henry Oscar Houghton
and
George H. Mifflin
is reconstructed as
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
.
[
5
]
June 6
– Statue of
Alexander Pushkin
(d. 1837), sculpted by
Alexander Opekushin
, is unveiled in
Strastnaya Square
,
Moscow
.
October –
Henry James
's novel
The Portrait of a Lady
begins serial publication in
Macmillan's Magazine
(U.K.) and
The Atlantic Monthly
(U.S.)
December 15
– First performance of a play by
Henrik Ibsen
in English,
The Pillars of Society
(under the title
Quicksands
) at the
Gaiety Theatre, London
.
[
6
]
New books
Fiction
Henry Adams
(anonymously) –
Democracy: An American Novel
Rhoda Broughton
–
Second Thoughts
Wilkie Collins
–
Jezebel's Daughter
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
–
Endymion
Fyodor Dostoevsky
–
The Brothers Karamazov
(Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy)
Amelia Edwards
–
Lord Brackenbury
Evelyn Everett-Green
–
Tom Tempest's Victory
Theodor Fontane
Grete Minde
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
George Gissing
–
Workers in the Dawn
Walter T. Gray (
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
) –
A Bad Boy's Diary
Percy Greg
–
Across the Zodiac
Anna Katharine Green
–
A Strange Disappearance
Thomas Hardy
–
The Trumpet-Major
Henry Kendall
–
Songs from the Mountains
Alexander Kielland
–
Garman og Worse
Pierre Loti
–
Le Mariage de Loti
(as
Rarahu
)
Ouida
–
Moths
Louisa Parr
–
Adam and Eve
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
–
The Golovlyov Family
(Господа Головлёвы, Gospoda Golovlyovy)
Anthony Trollope
–
The Duke's Children
Mark Twain
–
A Tramp Abroad
Giovanni Verga
–
Vita dei campi
(The Life of the Fields, short stories, including "Cavalleria rusticana" – "Rustic chivalry")
Lew Wallace
–
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Émile Zola
–
Nana
Children and young people
Carlo Collodi
–
The Adventures of Pinocchio
(Le avventure di Pinocchio)
Evelyn Everett-Green
–
Tom Tempest's Victory
Johanna Spyri
–
Heidi
Jules Verne
–
The Steam House
(La Maison à vapeur)
Drama
Adolphe L'Arronge
–
The Lonei Household
(Haus Lonei)
Augustus Harris
and
Paul Meritt
–
The World
Oscar Wilde
–
Vera; or, The Nihilists
(privately printed)
Poetry
Anne Evans
(died 1870) –
Poems and Music
(with a memorial preface by
Anne Isabella Thackeray
)
Non-fiction
Henry Charlton Bastian
–
The Brain as an Organ of Mind
James Legge
–
The Religions of China
Algernon Charles Swinburne
–
A Study of Shakespeare
Charles Warren
–
The Temple or the Tomb. Giving further evidence in favour of the authenticity of the present site of the Holy Sepulchre
Births
February 21
–
Waldemar Bonsels
, German writer (died
1952
)
February 27
–
Angelina Weld Grimké
, African-American playwright and poet (died
1958
)
March 1
–
Lytton Strachey
, English critic and biographer (died
1932
)
[
7
]
March 4
–
Channing Pollock
, American playwright and critic (died
1946
)
March 13
–
Frank Thiess
, German writer (died
1977
)
March 21
–
E. H. Young
, English novelist (died
1949
)
March 30
–
Seán O'Casey
, Irish dramatist (died
1964
)
[
8
]
June 10
–
Margit Kaffka
, Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died
1918
)
June 17
–
Carl Van Vechten
, American writer (died
1964
)
[
9
]
June 27
–
Helen Keller
, American writer and lecturer (died
1968
)
[
10
]
July 4
–
Anne Beffort
, Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died
1966
)
July 10
–
Greye La Spina
, American writer (died
1969
)
August 5
–
Ruth Sawyer
, American children's writer and novelist (died
1970
)
August 15
–
Anna Rüling
, German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died
1953
)
[
11
]
August 26
–
Guillaume Apollinaire
, French poet and dramatist (died
1918
)
[
12
]
September 12
–
H. L. Mencken
, American journalist and English language scholar (died
1956
)
[
13
]
October 4
–
Damon Runyon
, American journalist and short-story writer (died
1946
)
[
14
]
October 17
–
Vasile Cijevschi
, Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died
1931
)
October 18
–
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
, Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died
1940
)
November 1
–
Grantland Rice
, American sports writer (died
1954
)
November 6
–
Robert Musil
, Austrian novelist (died
1942
)
November 25
–
Elsie J. Oxenham
(Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died
1960
)
November 29
–
N. D. Cocea
, Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died
1949
)
December 24
–
Johnny Gruelle
, American cartoonist and children's author (died
1938
)
[
15
]
Deaths
January 12
–
Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn
, German author (born
1805
)
[
16
]
February 12
–
Karl Eduard von Holtei
, German poet and dramatist (born
1798
)
February 17
–
James Lenox
, American bibliophile (born
1800
)
April 9
–
Louis Edmond Duranty
, French novelist and critic (born
1833
)
April 16
–
Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy
, Irish writer and barrister (born
1819
)
April 18
–
Costache Aristia
, Wallachian translator, poet, dramatist and actor (born
1800
)
May 2
–
Eunice Hale Cobb
, American writer, public speaker, and activist (born
1803
)
May 5
–
Andrei Mocioni
, Hungarian-Romanian journalist and literary patron (born
1812
)
May 6
–
Ivan Surikov
, Russian poet (born
1841
)
May 8
–
Gustave Flaubert
, French novelist (born
1821
)
[
17
]
May 30
–
James Planché
, English dramatist (born
1796
)
June 7
–
Karl Christian Planck
, German philosopher (born
1819
)
July 7
–
Lydia Maria Child
, American writer and abolitionist (born
1802
)
July 12
–
Tom Taylor
, English dramatist and journalist (born
1817
)
September 23
–
Geraldine Jewsbury
, English novelist and woman of letters (born
1812
)
December 22
–
George Eliot
(Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born
1819
)
[
18
]
Awards
Commander, First Class of the
Order of St. Olav
–
Andreas Munch
Newdigate Prize
–
Rennell Rodd
, "Raleigh"
[
19
]
References
↑
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Science
.
105
(2719):
142–
148. 7 February 1947.
Bibcode
:
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.
doi
:
10.1126/science.105.2719.142
.
PMID
17813458
.
↑
M. Paul Holsinger; Mary Anne Schofield (1992).
Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture
. Popular Press. p.
192.
ISBN
978-0-87972-556-3
.
↑
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Titu Maiorescu 1840–1917. Bio-bibliografie selectivă
. Craiova: Aman County Library. p.
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↑
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(eds.).
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↑
Henry James (15 October 2016).
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1
. U of Nebraska Press. p.
207.
ISBN
978-0-8032-8827-0
.
↑
"English first performances"
.
Ibsen.net
. 2004-05-12
. Retrieved
2013-02-08
.
↑
S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006
↑
"Sean O'Casey - Irish dramatist"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
7 July
2017
.
↑
White, Edward (2014),
The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
ISBN
978-0-374-20157-9
↑
Nielsen, Kim E. (2007).
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.
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783–
806.
doi
:
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.
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.
Archived
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2016
.
↑
Rowold, Katharina (2011).
The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914
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ISBN
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.
↑
Annette Becker.
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↑
Evans, Rod L.
(2008).
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doi
:
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.
ISBN
978-1-4129-6580-4
.
LCCN
2008009151
.
OCLC
750831024
.
↑
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↑
Patricia Hall (1993).
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.
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ISBN
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↑
One or more of the preceding sentences
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public domain
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, ed. (1911). "
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↑
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.
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