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Events
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January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the Cornhill Magazine. It is inspired by the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste in 1872.
January 11 – Britain's poet laureate Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Thus he becomes known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.25308 15 January 1884 243
January 14 – Giovanni Verga's play Cavalleria rusticana, taken from his short story, is first performed, by Cesare Rossi's company at the Teatro Carignano in Turin, starring Eleonora Duse.Sadie, Stanley Macy, Laura 2006 https://archive.org/details/grovebookofopera00sadi registration The Grove Book of Operas 2nd Oxford University Press 0195309073 111
February 1 – A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, part 1 (covering A–Ant) appears in England, edited by James A. H. Murray, the first fascicle of what will become The Oxford English Dictionary.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006
February 12 – Henry James visits the home of Alphonse Daudet and meets Goncourt, Émile Zola, François Coppée and others. In a discussion with Daudet, James describes the average Frenchman as "infinitely sharper in his observation than the average Englishman or American."Henry James, The Middle Years, Avon Books, 1962; Discus paperback, 1978, p. 99.
February 18 – The English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins becomes Professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin in Ireland, where he will remain until his death in 1889 and write (but not publish) his innovative sonnets and other poems.
May 29 – Oscar Wilde marries Constance Mary Lloyd (1858–1898), a Protestant Dubliner, at St James's Church, Paddington, London.10.1093/ref:odnb/29400 Edwards Owen Dudley 4 October 2012 Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills y
June 25 – Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet laureate, marries Audrey Boyle, a granddaughter of Sir Lorenzo Moore and great-granddaughter of Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork.Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage https://books.google.com/books?id=ve8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA320 1885 Burke's Peerage Limited. 320
September 27 – August Strindberg's short stories Getting Married (Giftas) are published in Sweden. A week later, the author is prosecuted for blasphemy, but will be acquitted on November 17.Michael Meyer (translator) Meyer Michael 1987 Strindberg: A Biography Oxford Lives Oxford University Press 0-19-281995-X
December 10 – The first London publication of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn occurs.
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Lie Kim Hok's collection of children's stories Sobat Anak-anak is published in Buitenzorg, the first work of popular literature in the Dutch East Indies.Salam Aprinus Posisi Fiksi Populer di Indonesia Position of Popular Fiction in Indonesia Indonesian Humaniora XIV 2 2002 http://culture.ugm.ac.id/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Posisi_fiksi_populer_Di_indonesia.pdf 201–210 PDF 2013-07-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20130531044248/http://culture.ugm.ac.id/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Posisi_fiksi_populer_Di_indonesia.pdf 2013-05-31 dead His Malay language syair (poem) Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari is also first published.
The first translation of Shakespeare's plays in Japan is made, an adaptation of Julius Caesar by Tsubouchi Shōyō as a Bunraku puppet play, entitled The Strange Case of Caesar: the renowned sharpness of the blade of liberty.Paul Collins The Book of William New York Bloomsbury 2009 978-1-59691-195-6 https://archive.org/details/bookofwilliamhow00coll
New books
Fiction
Edwin Abbott Abbott – Flatland
Émile Zola – "La Joie De Vivre (The Joy of Living)"
Henry Brooks Adams – Esther
Juhani Aho – Rautatie
Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) – La regenta, vol. 1
Aluísio de Azevedo – Casa de Pensão
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly – What Never Dies
R. D. Blackmore – Tommy Upmore
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Ishmael. A Novel
Bankim Chandra Chatterji – Devi Chaudhurani
Wilkie Collins – I Say No
Alphonse Daudet – Sapho
Amy Dillwyn – Jill
Henry James- Georgina's Reasons
J.-K. Huysmans
À rebours
Controcorrente
Helen Hunt Jackson – Ramona
Vernon Lee – Miss Brown
George A. Moore – A Mummer's Wife
Mrs. Oliphant
The Ladies Lindores
The Wizard's Son
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Rachilde – Monsieur Vénus
Jules Verne
The Archipelago on Fire (L'Archipel en feu)
The Vanished Diamond (L'Étoile du sud)
Mary Augusta Ward – Miss Bretherton
Drama
Henrik Ibsen – The Wild Duck (Vildanden)
Alfred Tennyson – Becket
Giovanni Verga – Cavalleria rusticana
Friedrich Theodor Vischer – Nicht Ia: Schwäbisches Lustspiel in drei Aufzügen
Poetry
Lie Kim Hok – Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari
Rabindranath Tagore – Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali
William Watson – Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature
Non-fiction
Friedrich Engels – The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats)
The Herefordshire Pomona
Henry James – A Little Tour in France
Sophia Jex-Blake – The Care of Infants: A Manual for Mothers and Nurses
James K. Jones – The Tariff
Vernon Lee
The Countess of Albany
Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediæval in the Renaissance
George Fletcher Moore – Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western AustraliaQ19081637 Moore George Fletcher George Fletcher Moore
Elizabeth Robins Pennell – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Eminent Women series)
Arnold Toynbee – Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in Englandhttp://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England 17 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182004/http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev 3 March 2016 dead Toynbee Arnold 1884
Births
January 2 – Oscar Micheaux, African American author and filmmaker (died 1951)
January 18 – Arthur Ransome, English author of children's and other books (died 1967)
March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born novelist (died 1941)
April 1 – J. C. Squire, English writer and critic (died 1958)
April 3 – Nicos Nicolaides, Greek Cypriot writer (died 1956)
May 21 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (died 1920)
June 5 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (died 1969)
June 13 – Lillian Barrett, American novelist and playwright (died 1963)https://www.newspapers.com/article/newport-mercury-obituary/96559791/ Miss Barrett, Author, Was 78 Newport Mercury May 3, 1963 3
June 29 – Francis Brett Young, English novelist and poet (died 1954)
August 8 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (died 1933)
August 10 – Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist, short story writer and political essayist (died 1935)
August 12 – Frank Swinnerton, English novelist (died 1982)
August 24 – Earl Derr Biggers, American writer (died 1933)
September 20 – Maxwell Perkins, American literary editor (died 1947)
December 6 – Otto Roth, Hungarian Romanian politician, journalist, and literary promoter (died 1956)
December 17 – Alison Uttley, English writer of children's books (died 1976)Denis Judd Alison Uttley: The Life of a Country Child (1884-1976): the Authorised Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=moxlAAAAMAAJ 1986 M. Joseph 978-0-7181-2449-6 1
unknown date – Mourning Dove (Christal Quintasket or Hum-isha-ma), Native American writer (died 1936)
Deaths
January 3 – William Billington, English poet and publican (born 1825)
January 7 – John Harris, English poet (born 1820)
January 11 – Hermann Ulrici, German philosopher (born 1806)
February 2 – Abraham Hayward, English man of letters (born 1801)
February 11 – Thomas Chenery, Barbadian-born English scholar and editor (born 1826)
March 10 – William Blanchard Jerrold, English journalist (born 1826)
March 13 – Richard Henry Horne, English poet, critic and journalist, and public official in Australia (born 1802)
March 24 – François Mignet, French historian (born 1796)
April 6 – Emanuel Geibel, German poet (born 1815)
April 7 – Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (born 1803)Lia Van Gemert Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2011 500 978-9-08964-129-8
April 11 – Charles Reade, English novelist (born 1814)
May 27 – Caroline Dexter, English-born Australian feminist writer (born 1819)
May 28 – Joseph d'Haussonville, French historian (born 1809)
June 10 – Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (born 1808)
June 27 – Andreas Munch, Norwegian poet (born 1811)
July 23 – Anna Mary Howitt, English writer, painter and feminist (born 1822)
September 18 – Boleslav Markevich, Russian novelist, essayist and critic (born 1922)
October 16 – Paul Lacroix, French novelist and journalist (born 1806)
October 19 – Karl Hillebrand, German literary historian and philosopher (born 1829)
November 3 – František Doucha, Czech translator (born 1810)
November 6 – William Wells Brown, African-American writer (born 1814)
December 3 – Jane C. Bonar, Scottish hymnwriter (born 1821)
Awards
Gaisford Prize – Harry Hammond House (Corpus Christi) for iambics
References
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External links
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