1903 in literature

none 1903 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1903. Events thumb|250px|Cover of the Saturday Evening Post advertising The Call of the Wild, first episode January–December – Henry James's novel The Ambassadors is published as a serial in the monthly North American Review. May 22 – Japanese philosophy student Misao Fujimura (藤村操, born 1886) carves a poem into a tree at Kegon Falls before committing suicide over unrequited love.Suicide note (in Japanese). https://web.archive.org/web/20141226102500/http://www.japanpen.or.jp/e-bungeikan/guest/essay/fujimuramisao.html 2014-12-26 June 20 – Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild begins serial publication in the Saturday Evening Post. Dyer Daniel Answering the Call of the Wild April 1988 The English Journal National Council of Teachers of English 77 4 61 10.2307/819308 819308 Dyer October 24 – Mark Twain sets out for Florence (Italy).Mark Twain The Complete Works of Mark Twain https://books.google.com/books?id=pV01DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8501 20 July 2017 e-artnow 978-80-268-7815-5 8501– December – The Prix Goncourt for French literature is awarded for the first time, to John Antoine Nau for his novel Force ennemie. December 16 – The London County Council erects a plaque to novelist Charles Dickens (d. 1870) on his former home in Doughty Street. December 19 – The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series The Club of Queer Trades, "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown", appears in Harper's Weekly. unknown date – William Foyle and his brother Gilbert establish the London bookselling business of Foyles.Giōrgos Daniēl George Thaniel Seferis and Friends: Some of George Seferis' Friends in the English-speaking World https://books.google.com/books?id=OoOlmuCm0a8C 1994 Mercury Press 978-1-55128-008-0 39 New books Fiction Pío Baroja – El Mayorazgo de Labraz (Lord of Labraz, second of La Tierra Vasca – The Basque Country trilogy, 1900–1909) Ioan A. Bassarabescu – Nuvele Thio Tjin Boen – Tjerita Oeij Se René Boylesve – Enfant à la Balustrade Samuel Butler (died 1902) – The Way of All Flesh Erskine Childers – The Riddle of the Sands Joseph Conrad – Typhoon and Other Stories (U. K. book publication) Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer – Romance Florence Converse – Long Will Grazia Deledda – Elias Portolu Isabelle Eberhardt – Trimardeur (serialization begins) John Fox, Jr. – The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – The Wind in the Rose Bush George Gissing – The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Henry James – The Ambassadors Jack London – The Call of the Wild John Antoine Nau – Force ennemie Frank Norris (died 1902) – The Pit Marmaduke Pickthall – Said the Fisherman Bram Stoker – The Jewel of Seven Stars Jules Verne – Travel Scholarships (Bourses de voyage) Mary Augusta Ward – Lady Rose's Daughter Émile Zola – Vérité Jerzy Żuławski – Na Srebrnym Globie (On the Silver Globe, first in the Trylogia Księżycowa – Lunar Trilogy) Children and young people L. Frank Baum – The Enchanted Island of Yew Beatrix Potter The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester Herminie Templeton – Darby O'Gill and the Good People (book publication) Kate Douglas Wiggin – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Drama Dusé Mohamed Ali – The Jew's Revenge Jacinto Benavente – La noche del sábado (Saturday Night) Haralamb Lecca – Cancer la inimă André de Lorde – Le Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume W. Somerset Maugham – A Man of Honour René Morax – La Dîme Ștefan Petică – Frații Florencio Sánchez – M'hijo el dotor (My son, the doctor) George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman (published) J. M. Synge – In the Shadow of the Glen Pierre Wolff – The Secret of Polichinelle (Le Secret de Polichinelle) Stanisław Wyspiański – Wyzwolenie (Liberation) Poetry 1903 in poetry Giovanni Pascoli – Canti di Castelvecchio Thomas Traherne (died 1674) – Poetical Works W. B. Yeats – In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age Non-fiction James Allen – As a Man Thinketh Ada Cambridge – Thirty Years in Australia E. K. Chambers – The Mediaeval Stage W. E. B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk Helena Rutherfurd Ely – A Woman's Hardy Garden Auguste Escoffier – Le Guide culinaire Helen Keller – The Story of My Life (book publication) G. E. Moore – Principia Ethica John Morley – The Life of GladstoneNicholas Parsons The Book of Literary Lists London Sidgwick & Jackson 1985 0-283-99171-2 Alois Riegl – Der moderne Denkmalkultus, sein Wesen, seine Entstehung (The Modern Cult of Monuments, Its Character and Origin) W. B. Yeats – Ideas of Good and Evil (essays) Births January 10 – E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist and broadcaster (died 1961) February 11 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and activist (died 1988) February 13 – Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer (died 1989) February 17 – Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-born novelist (suicide 1951) February 21 Anaïs Nin, French-American novelist and diarist (died 1977) Raymond Queneau, French poet (died 1976) February 22 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (died 1990) February 24 Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (died 1967) Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist (died 1942) June 8 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (died 1987) June 18 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (died 1923) June 25 – George Orwell, English novelist and journalist (died 1950)BBC – History – Historic Figures: George Orwell (1903–1950) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/orwell_george.shtml bbc.co.uk 3 January 2017 July 3 – Oliver Stonor, English novelist (died 1987) July 10 – John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (died 1969)Seed David A Companion to Science Fiction 9 June 2008 John Wiley & Sons 978-0-470-79701-3 387 https://books.google.com/books?id=PiphRocVYRwC&pg=PA387 en September 5 – János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died 1971) September 9 – Edward Upward, English novelist and short story writer (died 2009) September 10 – Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (died 1974) September 14 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (died 1980) October 17 G. E. Trevelyan, English novelist (died 1941) Nathanael West, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1940) October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English novelist and critic (died 1966) December 6 (November 23 OS) – Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist (died 1971) December 10 Mary Norton, English children's writer (died 1992) William Plomer (Robert Pagan), South African-born novelist, poet, literary editor and librettist (died 1973) December 13 – Todhunter Ballard, American novelist (died 1980) December 24 – Nancy Brysson Morrison, Scottish novelist (died 1986) December 29 – Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1976) Uncertain date – Kathleen Lindsay, prolific English-born romance novelist (died 1973) Deaths January 22 – Augustus Hare, English biographer and travel writer (born 1834) February 8 – Ada Ellen Bayly, English novelist (born 1857) March 4 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (born 1834) March 6 – Gaston Paris, French literary critic and scholar (born 1839) March 8 – Josefina Wettergrund, Swedish writer (born 1830) March 9 – Minnie Mary Lee, American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (born 1825) March 14 – Ernest Legouvé, French dramatist (born 1807) April 28 — Frances Augusta Conant, American journalist (born 1841) April 29 – Paul Du Chaillu, French American travel writer (born c. 1831)Conniff Richard 2011 The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth New York W. W. Norton & Company 978-0-393-06854-2 303 May 12 – Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (born 1825) May 24 – Max O'Rell (Léon Paul Blouet), French journalist (born 1847) June 12 – Claymoor, Romanian fashion and entertainment critic (peptic ulcer; born c. 1842)Lucreția Angheluță, Salomeea Rotaru, Liana Miclescu, Marilena Apostolescu, Marina Vazaca, Bibliografia românească modernă (1831–1918). Vol. IV: R–Z, p. 722. Bucharest: Editura științifică și enciclopedică, 1996. 973-27-0501-9 July 11 – W. E. Henley, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1847)http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/henley/bio.htm Biographical Information West Chester University 2013-12-04 2013-01-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20130101214434/http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/henley/bio.htm dead August 31 – William Hastie, Scottish theologian (born 1842) September 1 – Charles Bernard Renouvier, French philosopher (born 1815)Renouvier, Charles Bernard 23 102 1 October 4 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (suicide, born 1880) November 1 – Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian (born 1817)Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Harvard University Press 1992 9780674379428 388 November 11 — Lavilla Esther Allen, American author (born 1834) November 19 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (born 1862) December 28 – George Gissing, English novelist (emphysema, born 1857)Pierre Coustillas, 'Gissing, George Robert (1857–1903)' (), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online), Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 12 July 2024. Awards Prix Goncourt: John Antoine Nau for Force ennemie Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson References 30em External links Popular Books of 1903 at Goodreads Published 1903 Books at Goodreads 1903 Books at Goodreads