1914 in literature

none 1914 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1914. Events right|thumb|alt=A black-and-white photographic portrait of a mustachioed man with glasses in a brimmed hat.|James Joyce in 1915 January 18 – A party held in honour of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Thomas Sturge Moore, Victor Plarr, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint and Frederic Manning. Peacock is on the menu.Lucy McDiarmid Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary history of a meal Oxford University Press 2014 978-0-19-872278-6 February 2 – James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man commences serialization in The Egoist, a new London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden.James Joyce Hans Walter Gabler A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man https://books.google.com/books?id=UgsMYVfUvn4C&pg=PA6 1993 Taylor & Francis 978-0-8153-1278-9 6 February 4 – A staging of George A. Birmingham's comedy General John Regan at Westport Town Hall in Ireland provokes a riot.General John Regan: The Westport Riots – Claim For £1,000 Compensation The Irish Times 1914-04-11 February 10 – Thomas Hardy marries his second wife, the children's author Florence Dugdale, at St Andrew's, Enfield.Thomas Hardy website https://web.archive.org/web/20130607125319/http://neal.oxborrow.net/Thomas_Hardy/Florence_Emily_Dugdale.htm 2013-06-07. Accessed 3 March 2013] March The Times Literary Supplement is published separately for the first time (in London). The Little Review is founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance. March 4 – Irish-born novelist George Moore publishes Vale, the final of his 3-volume autobiographical Hail and Farewell (first in 1911). March 4 (dated February) – Publication of the first issue of New Numbers, a quarterly collection of work by the Dymock poets in England edited by Lascelles Abercrombie with Wilfrid Gibson.The only other issues are published on May 15 (dated April), about the beginning of October (dated August) and on February 27, 1915 (dated December 1914). Jeff Cooper Timeline of the Dymock Poets 1911–1916 Friends of the Dymock Poets 2023-04-26 https://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm April 11 – The first English-language performance of George Bernard Shaw's comedy Pygmalion at His Majesty's Theatre is given in LondonPenguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 starring Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and famously including the Act III line "Not bloody likely!". June – James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, is published in London. June 20 – The first issue (of two) appears of the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis.http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 Vorticism Msn Encarta 2009-10-17 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070522043958/http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 2007-05-22 It includes Ford Madox Hueffer's "The Saddest Story", a preliminary version of The Good Soldier. June 24 – Edward Thomas makes the English railway journey which inspires his poem "Adlestrop" while traveling to meet Robert Frost; Thomas begins writing poetry for the first time in December.Harvey Anne 1999 Adlestrop Revisited: an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem Stroud Sutton Publishing 0-7509-2289-3 8–11 July E. M. Forster completes his novel Maurice, with its theme of male homosexual love; it is not published until 1971. Heinrich Mann completes his novel Der Untertan, with its critique of German nationalism; it is not published until 1918.The Contemporary Review https://books.google.com/books?id=dDoeAQAAIAAJ 1923 A. Strahan 757 July 23 – Austro-Hungarian ultimatum includes demands that Serbia should suppress all publications which "incite hatred and contempt of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy", particularly schoolbooks.Andrej Mitrović Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=CI5Wm8771EYC&pg=PA49 2007 Purdue University Press 978-1-55753-476-7 44–49 August The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. Stanley Unwin purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen. At about this date Loughborough (England) publishers Wills & Hepworth publish their first illustrated children's books in the Ladybird series, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales by E[thel] Talbot and Tiny Tots Travels by M. Burridge.Lorraine Johnson Brian Alderson Brian Alderson (children's book critic) The Ladybird Story: children's books for everyone London British Library 2014 978-0-7123-5728-9 13 August 3 – Siegfried Sassoon volunteers for military service, initially as a Trooper in the Sussex Yeomanry.Jonathan Atkin A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury Attitudes to the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=fhSPSPj12hAC&pg=PA128 2002 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-6071-7 128 August 25 – The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is set on fire by German troops during the Rape of Belgium.Dynamic of Destruction: culture and mass killing in the First World War Kramer Alan 2008 Penguin London 9781846140136; Gibson Craig The culture of destruction in the First World War The Times Literary Supplement 2008-01-30 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3277792.ece 2008-02-18 2008-07-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20080706063704/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3277792.ece dead September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium. Eärendil will much later appear in The Silmarillion. At this time Tolkien is an Oxford undergraduate staying at Phoenix Farm, Gedling, near Nottingham.Humphrey Carpenter Humphrey Carpenter J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography New York Houghton Mifflin 978-0618057023 2000 79Colin Duriez Colin Duriez J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend Oxford Lion 2012 978-0-7459-5514-8 77–9 September 2 – Charles Masterman invites 25 "eminent literary men" to Wellington House in London to form a secret British War Propaganda Bureau. Those who attend include William Archer, Arnold Bennett, Hall Caine, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ford Madox Hueffer, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Henry Newbolt, Gilbert Parker, G. M. Trevelyan and H. G. Wells. Kipling soon afterwards writes the poem "For all we have and are" and Hardy three days later writes the poem "Men Who March Away".Published as "Song of the Soldiers" in The Times (London) on September 9. W. B. Yeats, however, refuses to sign a letter of support for the War signed by most of the participants (with others) and published in The Times (London) on September 18. September 9 – Hilaire Belloc is contracted to write regular articles on the War in the new British weekly Land and Water.Belloc and the War: Land and Water Robert Speaight Robert Speaight http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/27th-october-1956/10/belloc-and-the-war The Tablet London 1956-10-27 10 2014-03-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20150612172807/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/27th-october-1956/10/belloc-and-the-war 2015-06-12 dead September 21 – Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen", containing his "Ode of Remembrance", is published in The Times (London). September 22 French novelist Alain-Fournier (Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier), aged 27, is killed in action near Vaux-lès-Palameix (Meuse) a month after enlisting, leaving his second novel, Colombe Blanchet, unfinished; his body will not be identified until 1991.http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/ Mémoire des hommes Ministère de la Défense, Secrétariat Général pour l'Administration T. S. Eliot (at this time in England to study) meets fellow American poet Ezra Pound for the first time, in London. September 29 – Arthur Machen's short story "The Bowmen", origin of the legend of the Angels of Mons, is published in The Evening News (London). October 2 – The date predicted by Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), as the date for the "full end" of Babylon, or nominal Christianity, with statements such as: "True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved.... In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished at the end of A. D. 1914...."Studies In the Scriptures Series II – The Time Is At Hand (1889 ed.) pp. 99 and 101. November 7 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published in the United States. November 16 – M. P. Shiel is convicted and imprisoned for "indecently assaulting and carnally knowing" his 12-year-old de facto stepdaughter on October 26 in London.M. P. Shiel and the Love of Pubescent Girls: The Other "Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name" Kirsten MacLeod English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 51 4 2008 10.2487/elt.51.4(2008)0028 355–380 162152867 http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/english_literature_in_transition/v051/51.4.macleod.html 2013-12-06 December – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", enlists in the French Army to fight in World War I and becomes a French citizenAuster, Paul The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry; with translations by American and British poets New York Random House 1982 0-394-52197-8 registration https://archive.org/details/randomhousebooko00aust after an August attempt at enlistment is rejected. December 31 – T. S. Eliot writes to Conrad Aiken from Oxford (where he has a scholarship at Merton College), saying: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls.... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."Seymour-Jones Carole http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=193222 Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot Knopf Publishing Group 1 New books Fiction Ion Agârbiceanu – Arhanghelii Arnold Bennett – The Price of Love E. F. Benson Arundel Dodo the Second (first British publication) Rhoda Broughton – Concerning a Vow Mary Grant Bruce From Billabong to London Grays Hollow G. K. Chesterton The Flying InnG. K. Chesterton The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton https://books.google.com/books?id=mIsAHxtXyEcC&pg=PA143 1986 Ignatius Press 978-0-89870-237-8 143 The Wisdom of Father Brown (collected detective stories) Dikran Chökürian – Vanke (Վանքը, The Monastery) Marie Corelli – Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact Miguel de Unamuno Niebla (Mist, "nivola") Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho or Our Lord Don Quixote) Ethel M. Dell – The Rocks of ValpréEthel May Dell The Rocks of Valpré https://books.google.com/books?id=U8csAAAAYAAJ 1914 T. Fisher Unwin Theodore Dreiser – The Titan Edna Ferber – Personality Plus James Elroy Flecker – The King of Alsander Anatole France – La Révolte des anges (The Revolt of the Angels)Bertrand Russell The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=-SnXAAAAMAAJ 1992 Allen Lane, the Penguin Press 978-0-7139-9023-2 507 André Gide – Les Caves du Vatican (The Cellars of the Vatican) Elinor Glyn – Letters to Caroline Nathaniel Gould – A Gamble for Love John MacDougall Hay – Gillespie Hermann Hesse – Rosshalde Frederic S. Isham – Nothing But the Truth James Joyce – Dubliners (short stories) D. H. Lawrence – The Prussian Officer and Other Stories Stephen Leacock – Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Ada Leverson – Birds of Paradise Sinclair Lewis – Our Mr. Wrenn Harold MacGrath – The Adventures of Kathlyn Compton Mackenzie – Sinister Street, vol. 2 Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石) – Kokoro (こころ) Frank Norris – Vandover and the Brute Baroness Orczy The Laughing Cavalier Unto Cæsar Gertrude Page – The Pathway Eleanor H. Porter – Miss Billy Married Raymond Roussel – Locus Solus Berta Ruck – His Official Fiancée Rafael Sabatini – The Gates of Doom Saki – Beasts and Super-Beasts Paul Scheerbart – Das graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß: Ein Damenroman (The Gray Cloth with Ten Per cent White: A Ladies' Novel)Christian Emden Catherine Keen David R. Midgley Imagining the City https://books.google.com/books?id=vOP55JBg9QkC&pg=PA154 2006 Peter Lang 978-3-03910-532-8 154 Henri Stahl – Un român în lunăDCRR: dicționar cronologic al romanului româanesc de la origini până la 1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=H0AkAQAAMAAJ 2004 Editura Academiei Române 978-973-27-1039-5 133 Booth Tarkington – Penrod Robert Tressell (died 1911) – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Mary Augusta Ward – Delia Blanchflower H. G. Wells The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The World Set Free (originally serialised as A Prophetic Trilogy in Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine January–March) P. G. Wodehouse – The Man Upstairs (short story collection) Francis Brett Young – Deep Sea Children and young people L. Frank Baum Tik-Tok of Oz Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West (as Edith Van Dyne) Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan of the Apes (book publication) Elsie J. Oxenham – Girls of the Hamlet Club (first in the Abbey Series) Władysław Umiński – Czarodziejski okręt (The Magic Ship; serialization) Drama Lascelles Abercrombie – The End of the World (September, Birmingham, England)https://www.greatwartheatre.org.uk/db/person/14/ Lascelles Abercrombie Great War Theatre 2019-08-17 Frank Craven – Too Many Cooks (February 24, New York) John Drinkwater – Rebellion Lord Dunsany – Five Plays (publication) Harley Granville-Barker – Vote By Ballot D. H. Lawrence – The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (publication, revised version) John Howard Lawson – Atmosphere Terence MacSwiney – The Revolutionist (publication)History's Daughter: A Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney Máire MacSwiney Brugha The O'Brien Press Dublin 2006 978-0-86278-986-2 Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett – It Pays to AdvertiseGerald Bordman American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930 https://books.google.com/books?id=mmr35sTB0AoC&pg=PA8 1995 OUP USA 978-0-19-509078-9 8 Ramanbhai Neelkanth – Raino ParvatAmaresh Datta Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1072 1988 Sahitya Akademi 978-81-260-1194-0 1072 Elmer Rice – On Trial Edward Sheldon – The Song of Songs J. E. Harold Terry and Lechmere Worrall – The Man Who Stayed at Home (also The White Feather)Luckhurst Mary A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880 - 2005 John Wiley & Sons 302–3 2008 9780470751473 https://books.google.com/books?id=bpuQAR5Uod8C 20 July 2016 E. Temple Thurston – The Evolution of Katherine Horace Annesley Vachell – Quinneys Poetry 1914 in poetry Laurence Binyon – "For the Fallen" (including "Ode of Remembrance") Janus Djurhuus – YrkingarJens Hendrik Oliver Djurhuus Yrkingar 1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz-RB3Pj70kC 1914 Prentsmiðja starvsmannaliðsins Robert Frost – North of Boston (including "Mending Wall") Wilfrid Gibson – Borderlands and Thoroughfares Thomas Hardy – Satires of Circumstance (including "Poems 1912–13") Ernst Lissauer – Song of Hate against England (Hassgesang gegen England) Amy Lowell – Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds Gabriela Mistral – Los sonetos de la muerte (Sonnets of Death) Ezra Pound, ed. – Des Imagistes: An Anthology Ernst Stadler – Der Aufbruch (The Departure) Gertrude Stein – Tender Buttons Wallace Stevens – Phases Katharine Tynan – The Flower of Peace Non-fiction Clive Bell – Art Arnold Bennett – Liberty: A Statement of the British CaseMark Bostridge The Fateful Year: England 1914 2014 Penguin UK 978-0-14-196223-8 Hall Caine – King Albert's Book G. K. Chesterton – The Barbarism of Berlin Henry James – Notes of a Son and Brother Chrystal Macmillan – "Facts versus Fancies on Woman Suffrage" (pamphlet) Henry S. Salt – The Humanities of DietThe Humanities of Diet https://www.henrysalt.co.uk/book/the-humanities-of-diet/ 2026-02-02 Henry S. Salt Society en-GB Paul Scheerbart – Glasarchitektur (Glass Architecture) George Bernard Shaw The Case for Belgium Common Sense About The War Edward Thomas – In Pursuit of Spring H. G. Wells – The War That Will End War (collected articles) Births January 2 – Vivian Stuart (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (died 1986)Geoffrey Handley-Taylor Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire Authors Today https://books.google.com/books?id=ll9TAAAAYAAJ 1973 Eddison Press Limited 978-0-85649-013-2 36 January 8 – Norman Nicholson, English poet (died 1987)Louis Untermeyer The New Modern American & British Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=VWFKAAAAIAAJ 1950 Harcourt, Brace 414 January 15 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch correspondent, diarist and Holocaust victim (died 1943) January 17 – William Stafford, American poet, pacifist (died 1993) January 26 – Kaye Webb, English publisher and journalist (died 1996) February 4 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (died 1980)Margaret Littler Alfred Andersch (1914-1980) and the Reception of French Thought in the Federal Republic of Germany https://books.google.com/books?id=csxbAAAAMAAJ 1991 978-0-7734-9679-8 346 February 5 – William S. Burroughs, American author (died 1997)Joan Hawkins Alex Wermer-Colan William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century https://books.google.com/books?id=8-SWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11 17 May 2019 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-04136-4 11 February 6 – Arkadi Kuleshov, Soviet poet and translator (died 1978) February 13 – Katarína Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (died 1995) February 25 – Frank Bonham, American novelist (died 1988) March 1 – Ralph Ellison, American scholar and writer (died 1994) March 4 – Barbara Newhall Follett, American prodigy novelist (went missing in December 1939) March 27 – Budd Schulberg, American writer (died 2009) March 28 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech poet and controversialist (died 1997) March 31 – Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize winning Mexican author (died 1998)Jose Quiroga James Hardin Understanding Octavio Paz https://books.google.com/books?id=kJOqj6Sm2p8C&pg=PA2 1999 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-263-9 2 April 4 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (died 1996)Renate Gunther Marguerite Duras https://books.google.com/books?id=_MZhsT4W7KcC&pg=PA2 5 July 2002 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-5757-1 2 April 10 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (died 1999) April 25 – Ross Lockridge Jr., American novelist (died 1948)Laurence S. Lockridge Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County https://books.google.com/books?id=86XgAAAAMAAJ 1995 Penguin Books 978-0-14-015871-7 55 April 26 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist (died 1986)Philip Davis Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life https://books.google.com/books?id=_yLaSNbbKRUC&pg=PT27 13 September 2007 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-160843-8 27 April 28 – Michel Mohrt, French author and historian (died 2011) May 3 Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet (died 2018) Martín de Riquer, Spanish writer and Romantic scholar (died 2013)Giancarlo Colombo Who's Who in Spain https://books.google.com/books?id=x4oUAQAAIAAJ 2006 Who's Who in Italy 978-88-85246-60-7 220 May 6 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (died 1965) May 8 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French novelist (died 1980)Ralph Schoolcraft Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow https://books.google.com/books?id=E3y_1x4gdGUC&pg=PA1 26 May 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press 0-8122-0320-8 1 May 12 – James Bacon, author and journalist (died 2010) May 14 – Anne Baker, British writerhttp://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/11227456.Happy_100th_for_Annie/ Happy 100th for Anne Salisbury Journal Hannah White 21 May 2014 9 October 2017 (died 2025) June 15 – Lena Kennedy, English novelist (died 1986) June 17 – Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (died 2005) June 26 – Laurie Lee, English poet and memoirist (died 1997)77340 Lee, (Wilfred) Jack Raymond July 14 Wim Hora Adema, Dutch children's author and feminist (died 1998) Béatrix Beck, French writer of Belgian origin (died 2008) July 15 Hammond Innes, English adventure novelist (died 1998)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hammond-innes-1164546.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hammond-innes-1164546.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Hammond Innes - Arts & Entertainment Jack Adrian 12 June 1998 The Independent 13 January 2021 Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (died 1969)Harold Oxbury Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ 1985 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211599-7 239 July 17 Alice Gore King, American entrepreneur, educator, writer and artist (died 2007)John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes American Council of Learned Societies American national biography https://books.google.com/books?id=OuIpAQAAMAAJ 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-520635-7 467 James Purdy, American novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (died 2009)"James Purdy", DNB|118793705 (line 548b). Retrieved 14 February 2026. July 18 – Roy Huggins, American novelist (died 2002)Horace Newcomb Encyclopedia of Television https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1149 3 February 2014 Routledge 978-1-135-19472-7 1149 July 23 – Alf Prøysen, Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (died 1970) July 25 – Winifred Foley, English memoirist (died 2009) August 5 – Anthony West, English author and critic, son of 'Rebecca West' and H. G. Wells (died 1987) August 9 – Tove Jansson, Finnish children's author (died 2001)St James Press Reference Guide to Short Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=p6IRAQAAMAAJ 1994 St. James Press 978-1-55862-334-7 276 August 20 – Colin MacInnes, English novelist (died 1976) August 21 – Stephen Coulter, British novelist (died 1986) August 26 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine author (died 1984)Ilan Stavans Julio Cortázar: A Study of the Short Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=t91eAAAAMAAJ 1996 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-8293-6 7 September 5 Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and physicist (died 2018)Tracy Contemporary World Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=sKAjAQAAIAAJ 1993 St. James Press 978-1-55862-200-5 395 Gogu Rădulescu, Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (died 1991) September 15 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (died 1999) October 1 – Hilda Ellis Davidson, English antiquarian and academic (died 2006) October 6 – Joan Littlewood, English theatre director and biographer (died 2002)Nadine Holdsworth Joan Littlewood's Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=u4NsNL9XZ5MC&pg=PA5 14 April 2011 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-11960-3 5 October 20 – L. P. Davies, English novelist (died 1988) October 26 – John Masters, British Raj novelist (died 1983) October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (died 1953)Derek Cyril Perkins Dylan Thomas and His World https://books.google.com/books?id=rIBbAAAAMAAJ 1995 Domino Books (Wales) 978-1-85772-160-7 13 November 22 – Leah Bodine Drake, American poet (died 1964) December 12 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (died 2000) December 14 – Diana Forbes-Robertson, English writer and biographer (died 1987) December 24 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist and playwright (died 2007)Who's who in Germany https://books.google.com/books?id=tC9ctqv5jv0C 1990 Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1464 Deaths January 6 – Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1827)Ewan Elizabeth L. Innes Sue Reynolds Sian Pipes Rose The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women 2006 Edinburgh University Press 9780748626601 189 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA189 en February 1 – Marie Robinson Wright, American travel writer (born 1853)The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress.... https://books.google.com/books?id=_lVMAAAAMAAJ 1915 Dodd, Mead 799 February 15 – Kate Brownlee Sherwood, American poet, journalist, translator, and story writer (born 1841) February 25 – John Tenniel, English cartoonist and illustrator (born 1820)Diane Telgen Something about the Author https://books.google.com/books?id=a8nmnqDY_SkC 1993 Cengage Gale 978-0-8103-2284-4 232 March – Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette, American short story writer (born 1842) March 17 – Hiraide Shū (平出 修), Japanese novelist, poet, and lawyer (born 1878) March 19 – Thomas Cooper de Leon, American journalist, author and playwright (born 1839)Walter B. Edgar The South Carolina Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=90ITAAAAYAAJ 2006 University of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-598-2 252 March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, Nobel Prize winning French author (born 1830)Atlantic Brief Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=Hozoywf3AlEC 1971 532 March 28 - Hjalmar Bergström, Danish playwright, novelist, and short story writer (born 1868)Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti: A-Z 710 Bergström, Hjalmar Istituto Giovanni Treccani 1930 Treccani Giovanni Bestetti & Tumminelli March 31 – Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer (born 1871)Guenther Wachsmuth The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner from the Turn of the Century to His Death https://books.google.com/books?id=mWrYAAAAMAAJ 1955 Whittier Books 978-0-89345-249-0 221 April 2 – Paul Heyse, Nobel Prize winning German author (born 1830)John Parker Who's who in the Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ 1967 Pitman 1640 April 7 – Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far, 水仙花), English-born writer on Chinese (born 1865) May 13 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo, British poet and novelist born 1843)The Publishers Weekly https://books.google.com/books?id=AKkxAQAAMAAJ 1914 F. Leypoldt 1646 May 19 – William Aldis Wright, English writer and editor (born 1831) May 29 – Laurence Irving, English dramatist and novelist (drowned, born 1871)The London Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=w887AQAAMAAJ 1914 Tho. Newcomb 6426 June 3 – Danske Dandridge, Danish-born American poet, historian, and garden writer (b. 1854)Flora Joseph M. Vogel Amber Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA94 21 June 2006 Louisiana State University Press 978-0-8071-3123-7 94 June 6 – Theodore Watts-Dunton, English critic and poet (born 1832)Tom James Truss Theodore Watts-Dunton as Critic https://books.google.com/books?id=uVlVAAAAMAAJ 1958 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 June 19 – Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright (Charley's Aunt) (born 1848)Sir John Alexander Hammerton Concise Universal Biography: A Dictionary of the Famous Men and Women of All Countries and All Times... https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsXAQAAIAAJ 1975 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-4209-5 1288 June 21 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist writer (born 1843)Bertha von Suttner https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1905/suttner/biographical/ NobelPrize.org 6 June 2019 July 6 – Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet (murdered; born 1886)Verity Smith Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=JcjFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 26 March 1997 Routledge 1-135-31424-1 19 July 23 – Charlotte Forten Grimké, African American poet (born 1837) September 4 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (killed in action, born 1873)PN Review https://books.google.com/books?id=bImRAAAAIAAJ 1983 Department of English, University of Manchester 12 September 8 Mariana Cox Méndez, Chilean writer (born 1871) Hans Leybold, German nihilist poet (born 1892)Publications of the English Goethe Society https://books.google.com/books?id=0s8nAAAAYAAJ 1979 Society 48 September 11 – Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet and actor (born 1861)Rodica Zafiu, "Demetriade Mircea", in Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, Vol. I, p. 471. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. 973-697-758-7 September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French novelist (killed in action, born 1886)Frank Northen Magill Cyclopedia of World Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=gMg3AAAAMAAJ 1997 Salem Press 978-0-89356-435-3 31 September 25 – Alfred Lichtenstein, German Expressionist writer (killed in action, born 1889) October 9 – Dumitru C. Moruzi, Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (asthma; born 1850)ro Florin Marinescu, "Un basarabean înflăcărat. Scriitorul Dumitru C. Moruzi", in Revista Limba Română, Nr. 5–6/2012Bezviconi, Boierimea..., p. 137; Coșa, pp. 399, 403; Penelea Filitti, p. 60 October 30 – Ernst Stadler, German Expressionist poet (killed in action, born 1883) November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian Expressionist poet (cocaine overdose, born 1887)Austrian Information https://books.google.com/books?id=YC4iAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA2 1987 Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General 6 November 9 – Alessandro d'Ancona, Italian critic and writer (born 1835)Bruce Haddock James Wakefield Thought Thinking: The Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile https://books.google.com/books?id=_vU_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT253 14 July 2015 Andrews UK Limited 978-1-84540-850-3 253 November 12 – Augusto dos Anjos, Brazilian poet (b. 1884)Márcio Souza A Book of Days for the Brazilian Literary Year https://books.google.com/books?id=E1ZfAAAAMAAJ 1993 Fundação Biblioteca Nacional 978-85-333-0021-7 November 16 – Nikolai Chayev, Russian writer, poet and playwright (born 1824) November 19 – Robert Jones Burdette, American minister and sentimental humorist (born 1844)Robert J. Burdette Dead. Noted Humorist, Lecturer, and Minister Dies in Pasadena. https://www.nytimes.com/1914/11/20/archives/robert-j-burdette-dead-noted-humorist-lecturer-and-minister-dies-in.html New York Times November 20, 1914 2011-01-16 Awards Newdigate Prize: Robert William Sterling, "The Burial of Sophocles"Robert William Sterling The Burial of Sophocles: The Newdigate Prize Poem 1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=uGU1AAAAMAAJ 1914 B.H. Blackwell Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded Prix Goncourt: Adrien Bertrand, L'Appel du SolAllen Kent Harold Lancour Jay E. Daily Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 24 - Printers and Printing: Arabic Printing to Public Policy: Copyright, and Information Technology https://books.google.com/books?id=MCwqxVvW3zMC&pg=PA207 1 March 1978 CRC Press 978-0-8247-2024-7 207 References 30em See also World War I in literature External links Popular Books of 1914 at Goodreads Published 1914 Books at Goodreads 1914 Books at Goodreads