1887 in literature

none thumb | right 1887 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1887. Events February – Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review.Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost Annotated https://books.google.com/books?id=x6M9zgEACAAJ 16 February 2021 Independently Published 9798709933033 11 April 2021 13 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181244/https://books.google.com/books?id=x6M9zgEACAAJ live March 30 – Théâtre Libre, established by André Antoine to promote naturalism in theatre, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble.Claude Schumacher John Northam Glynne W. Wickham Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=tanPYs6ArLIC&pg=PA301 26 September 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-23014-8 301 11 April 2021 13 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181217/https://books.google.com/books?id=tanPYs6ArLIC&pg=PA301 live April 22 – Syracuse University in New York State purchases the Ranke Library from the estate of historian Leopold von Ranke, outbidding the Prussian government. November – Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston). December 5 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect. December 15 – The Romanian literary magazine Revista Nouă is launched in Bucharest by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who answers a request made by Ioan Bianu, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Alexandru Vlahuță and others. The first issue, illustrated by George Demetrescu Mirea, hosts Delavrancea's Hagi Tudose and Petre Ispirescu's Sarea în bucateEugeniu Sperantia Eugeniu Sperantia Reviste de altădată: Revista Nouă Steaua 1 1967 48–49 Romanian (a localized folkloric version of the King Leir myth).Cernătescu Radu 2013 Shakespeare și colindele românilor https://arhiva.romanialiterara.com/index.pl/shakespeare_i_colindele_romnilor România Literară Romanian 50 2023-04-13 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171313/https://arhiva.romanialiterara.com/index.pl/shakespeare_i_colindele_romnilor live unknown dates Futabatei Shimei writes and begins to publish The Drifting Cloud (浮雲, Ukigumo), the first modern novel in Japan. George Hutchinson establishes Hutchinson & Co. as a publisher in London. John Lane and Elkin Mathews set up in partnership under the name The Bodley Head in London, originally as antiquarian booksellers. New books Fiction Herman Bang – Stucco (Stuk) Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Cut by the County Hall Caine – The DeemsterErnest Franklin Bozman Everyman's Encyclopaedia https://books.google.com/books?id=vwMZAQAAMAAJ 1967 Dent 11 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181253/https://books.google.com/books?id=vwMZAQAAMAAJ live Marie Corelli – Thelma F. Marion Crawford – Saracinesca José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – A Relíquia (The Relic) Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea – Hagi Tudose Anna Bowman Dodd – The Republic of the Future Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet Édouard Dujardin – Les Lauriers sont coupés (early example of stream of consciousness narrative mode) Benito Pérez Galdós – Fortunata y Jacinta (publication completed) Enrique Gaspar – El anacronópete (first fiction to feature a time machine)Kathryn Westcott HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12900390 BBC News 2011-04-09 2011-04-09 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171305/https://www.bbc.com/news live George Gissing – Thyrza H. Rider Haggard Allan Quatermain Jess She Thomas Hardy – The Woodlanders W. H. Hudson – A Crystal Age Joris-Karl Huysmans – En rade (Becalmed; serialization concludes, book publication) Petre Ispirescu – Sarea în bucate Pierre Loti – Madame Chrysanthème Paolo Mantegazza – Testa William Morris – The Tables Turned, Or, Nupkins Awakened: A Socialist InterludeThe Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=pkBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA148 1 April 1983 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-17060-9 148 Appu Nedungadi – Kundalatha (കുന്ദലത) Bolesław Prus – The Doll (Lalka; serialization begins) José Rizal – Noli Me Tangere William James Roe (as Hudor Genone) – Bellona's Husband: A Romance Mark Rutherford (pseudonym of Hale White) – Revolution in Tanner's Lane Futabatei Shimei – The Drifting Cloud August Strindberg – The People of Hemsö (Hemsöborna) Jules Verne The Flight to France (Le Chemin de France)Boston Public Library Works of Fiction in the French Language: Together with Translations from the French, in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston https://books.google.com/books?id=D0Q-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP56 1892 The Trustees 56 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171341/https://books.google.com/books?id=D0Q-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP56 live Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (Nord contre Sud) Émile Zola – La Terre (The Earth) Children and young people Palmer Cox – The Brownies, Their Book Robert Louis Stevenson – The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables Drama Anton Chekhov – Ivanov Arthur Wing Pinero – Dandy Dick Victorien Sardou – La Tosca August Strindberg – The Father Thomas Russell Sullivan – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (adapted from 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) Non-fiction Mikhail Bakunin – God and the State Hall Caine – Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles Darwin (died 1882) – The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Julius Dresser – The True History of Mental ScienceAnnetta Gertrude Dresser The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby: With Selections from His Manuscripts and a Sketch of His Life https://books.google.com/books?id=10UXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 1895 G. H. Ellis 5 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171224/https://books.google.com/books?id=10UXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 live Friedrich Engels (translated by Florence Kelley) – The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (first English language edition) George William Foote – Royal Paupers: a radical's contribution to the Jubilee Franz Hartmann – The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross – The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – The Kabbalah Unveiled Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morality Marius Nygaard, Jan Johanssen and Emil Schreiner – Latinsk Ordbog E. J. Richmond – Woman, First and Last, and What She has Done A. E. Waite – The Real History of the Rosicrucians Mary Allen West – Childhood: Its Care and Culture L. L. Zamenhof – Unua Libro Births January 2 – Dmitrii Milev, Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (died 1937) January 7 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (died 1953) January 10 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (died 1962) January 22 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (died 1972) February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (died 1947)Lesley Henderson D. L. Kirkpatrick Twentieth-century Romance and Historical Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=zs4KAQAAMAAJ 1990 St. James Press 978-0-912289-97-7 486 2021-04-12 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171241/https://books.google.com/books?id=zs4KAQAAMAAJ live February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (died of overdose 1914)Georg Trakl Robin Skelton Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9 1994 Broken Jaw Press 978-0-921411-22-2 9 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171246/https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9 live February 4 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer (died 1955)Mary R. Reichardt Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=mpc53LXRvIQC&pg=PA193 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-31147-5 193 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171247/https://books.google.com/books?id=mpc53LXRvIQC&pg=PA193 live February 11 – John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953) February 13 – Géza Csáth, Hungarian writer, and psychiatrist (died 1919) February 20 – Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (died 1980)Peter Ebert In this Theatre of Man's Life: The Biography of Carl Ebert https://books.google.com/books?id=SooIAQAAMAAJ 1999 Book Guild 978-1-85776-347-8 1 2021-04-12 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171248/https://books.google.com/books?id=SooIAQAAMAAJ live March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (died 1967) March 14 – Sylvia Beach (Nancy Woodbridge Beach), American publisher and memoirist (died 1962)Bruce Kellner A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui7uAAAAMAAJ 1988 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-25078-1 153 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171249/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui7uAAAAMAAJ live May 15 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and translator (died 1959)Robert B. Hollander A Textual and Bibliographical Study of the Poems of Edwin Muir https://books.google.com/books?id=HTMoAQAAIAAJ 1962 Columbia University 176 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171253/https://books.google.com/books?id=HTMoAQAAIAAJ live May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)Bernard S. Schlessinger June H. Schlessinger The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ 1991 Oryx Press 978-0-89774-599-4 74 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171300/https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ live June 2 – Orrick Glenday Johns, American poet and playwright (died 1946)William Stanley Braithwaite Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913-29 and Yearbook of American Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=yGIoAAAAYAAJ 1917 G. Sully 398 2021-04-12 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171302/https://books.google.com/books?id=yGIoAAAAYAAJ live June 25 – George Abbott, American playwright, director and screenwriter (died 1995)Donald W. Whisenhunt Encyclopedia USA: Abbe, Robert-Alexander, Robert Evans https://books.google.com/books?id=RIkIAQAAMAAJ 1997 Academic International Press 978-0-87569-076-6 4–5 2021-04-12 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171305/https://books.google.com/books?id=RIkIAQAAMAAJ live July 1 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (died 1981) July 6 – Walter Flex, German war writer (died 1917)Tim Cross The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights https://books.google.com/books?id=z5FZAAAAMAAJ 1989 University of Iowa Press 978-0-87745-264-5 185 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171318/https://books.google.com/books?id=z5FZAAAAMAAJ live August 3 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)John Lehmann Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend https://books.google.com/books?id=5FFaAAAAMAAJ 1980 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 978-0-297-77757-1 20 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171342/https://books.google.com/books?id=5FFaAAAAMAAJ live August 17 – Marcus Garvey, African American publisher, entrepreneur and Pan Africanist (died 1940)Marcus Garvey Robert A. Hill Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers https://books.google.com/books?id=47UwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 17 August 1987 University of California Press 978-0-520-06265-8 35 11 April 2021 13 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171449/https://books.google.com/books?id=47UwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 live August 28 – István Kühár, Prekmurje Slovene poet, writer and politician (died 1922) September 1 – Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss-born French writer (died 1961)John Flower Historical Dictionary of French Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 17 January 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7945-4 118 11 April 2021 13 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171312/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 live September 8 – Constantin Beldie, Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (died 1954) September 26 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (died 1958) October 1 – Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (died 1919) October 22 – John Reed, American journalist and poet (died 1920)New Times https://books.google.com/books?id=afkSAQAAMAAJ September 1987 Trud. 28 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171317/https://books.google.com/books?id=afkSAQAAMAAJ live November 10 – Arnold Zweig, German novelist (died 1968)Irene Harand His Struggle (an Answer to Hitler) https://books.google.com/books?id=tQZ02whlxZoC 1937 Artcraft Press 240 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171231/https://books.google.com/books?id=tQZ02whlxZoC live December 15 – A. de Herz, Romanian playwright and journalist (died 1936) Deaths February 10 – Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), English novelist (born 1814) February 11 – François Laurent, Belgian historian (born 1810) Laurent, François 16 284; line four ...until his death on the 11th of February 1887 February 19 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch-born writer (born 1820)Frank Northen Magill Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 777 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171231/https://books.google.com/books?id=fe_XAAAAMAAJ live February 21 – Elizabeth Caroline Gray, historian and travel author (born 1800)Gray, Rev. John Hamilton Boase Frederic Modern English Biography 1 1892 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55059/55059-h/55059-h.htm Project Gutenberg 2021-04-11 2021-04-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20210411150119/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55059/55059-h/55059-h.htm live March 20 – Pavel Annenkov, Russian critic and memoirist (born 1813) April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet and folk song collector (born 1832)s-HUGH-CEI-1832 Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet David Gwenallt Jones 2 November 2020 May 4 – William Murdoch, Scottish-born Canadian poet (born 1823) May 5 – James Grant, Scottish novelist and historian (born 1822)Morgan George Watkins Grant, James (1822-1887) 22 391–392 August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (born 1860)St James Press Anthony Levi Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present https://books.google.com/books?id=WFkOAQAAMAAJ 1992 St. James Press 978-1-55862-086-5 345 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171246/https://books.google.com/books?id=WFkOAQAAMAAJ live August 25 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (born 1825) September 11 - Charles Lawrence Young, English playwright and baronet (born 1839)Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International Theatrical Obituaries, 1850 to 1990 1991 Greenwood Press II, K-Z George B. Bryan 978-0313275937 1346 September 14 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German novelist, poet, playwright and art theorist (born 1807) September 27 – Mikalojus Akelaitis, Lithuanian writer, linguist and publicist (born 1829) October 12 – Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet (born 1826)August Nemo Dinah Craik Essential Novelists - Dinah Craik: The Ideals of English Middle-class Life https://books.google.com/books?id=dPqfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3 1 July 2019 Tacet Books 978-85-7777-325-1 3 11 April 2021 13 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171255/https://books.google.com/books?id=dPqfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3 live November 2 – Alfred Domett, English-born New Zealand poet and politician (born 1811)Claudia Orange The Story of a Treaty https://books.google.com/books?id=vQs9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269 21 December 2015 Bridget Williams Books 978-1-927131-34-3 269 11 April 2021 13 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181319/https://books.google.com/books?id=vQs9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269 live November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (born 1849)Emma Lazarus The Poems of Emma Lazarus https://books.google.com/books?id=XL04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 1888 Houghton, Mifflin 1 2021-04-11 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413171422/https://books.google.com/books?id=XL04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 live December 5 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born 1804)Claudia L. Bushman Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah https://books.google.com/books?id=XV4qAAAAYAAJ 1997 Utah State University Press 978-0-87421-233-4 39 2020-11-02 2023-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20230413181425/https://books.google.com/books?id=XV4qAAAAYAAJ live References 30em External links Published 1887 Books at Goodreads 1887 Books at Goodreads