September 18 – The "Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is placed in the French newspaper Le Figaro by a Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who calls Symbolism hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and intended to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal."
Fall – Clifford Barnes is taken on as a clerk at the Manhattan book store Arthur Hinds & Co., which will become Barnes & Noble.[5]
↑ William Gillette (1983). Plays. Cambridge University Press. p.28. ISBN9780521240895.
↑ Barbara Spackman (2018). Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio. Cornell University Press. p.5. ISBN9781501723308.
↑ Turner, Betty N. (2006). The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies. iUniverse. p.65. ISBN9780595374786.
↑ Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p.528. ISBN978-9-08964-129-8.
↑ Dickinson, Emily (1995). Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p.42. ISBN9780472105861.
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