1886 in literature

none 1886 literature poetry December 2024 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1886. Events thumb|Richard Mansfield in the dual roles of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde January – MLN: Modern Language Notes, an academic journal, introduces European literary criticism into American scholarship. It is founded at Johns Hopkins University. January 5 and January 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months. January 17 – The Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Somerville and Ross first meet, at Castletownshend, County Cork, Ireland. February – A list of 100 books considered "necessary for a liberal education", compiled by John Lubbock, is published.Philip Waller Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=pwcUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 2008 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-954120-1 68 February 22 – The first performance of William Gillette's American Civil War drama Held by the Enemy is held at the Criterion Theater, Brooklyn, New York.William Gillette Plays Cambridge University Press 1983 9780521240895 28 April 10 – Anatole Baju begins publication of the magazine Le Décadent in Paris, in an effort to define and organize the Decadent movement.Barbara Spackman Barbara Spackman Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio Cornell University Press 2018 9781501723308 5 May–July – Robert Louis Stevenson's Scottish historical novel Kidnapped is serialized in the London magazine Young Folks. May 7 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts, written and printed in Italy in 1819, is first played privately in England, sponsored by the Shelley Society, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, before an audience that includes Robert Browning (for whose birthday it is held), George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde's review of it in Dramatic Review appears on May 15."Reviews". September 9 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is signed. 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.The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies Betty N. Turner iUniverse 2006 9780595374786 65 November – Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills begin to appear in the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette under the British Raj. May 15 – Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published. She is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". After publication of a first collection of her verse in 1890, she will be seen with Walt Whitman as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets.December 2024 unknown dates A Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's play Hamlet as Hamuretto Yamato Nishiki-e is serialized in the newspaper Tokyo Eiri Shimbun.Paul Collins The Book of William New York Bloomsbury 2009 978-1-59691-195-6 registration https://archive.org/details/bookofwilliamhow00coll The first English language translation of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1856), made by Eleanor Marx, is published by Henry Vizetelly in London. New books Fiction Edmondo De Amicis – Heart (Cuore) Herman Bang – Ved Vejen (published in the collection Stille Eksistenser) Emilia Pardo Bazán – Los pazos de Ulloa (The House of Ulloa, publication commenced) The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán – review https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/20/house-ulloa-emilia-pardo-bazan The Guardian 18 July 2017 20 August 2013 Nicholas Lezard Nicholas Lezard Leon Bloy – Disperato Rhoda Broughton – Doctor Cupid Hall Caine – A Son of Hagar Mary Cholmondeley – The Danvers Jewels Wilkie Collins The Evil Genius The Guilty River Marie Corelli – A Romance of Two Worlds Alice Diehl – Griselda George Gissing – Demos; A Story of English Socialism Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett) – The Silence of Dean Maitland Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge William Dean Howells – Indian Summer Fergus Hume – The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Henry James The Bostonians The Princess Casamassima Jerome K. Jerome – The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Lie Kim Hok – Tjhit Liap Seng Vladimir Korolenko – The Blind Musician Pierre Loti – Pêcheur d'Islande Jules Mary – Roger la Honte Octave Mirbeau – Le Calvaire George A. Moore A Drama in Muslin Confessions of a Young Man Bolesław Prus – The Outpost (Placówka; serialization complete, book publication) Britiffe Constable Skittowe – Sudden Death, or, My Lady the Wolf Robert Louis Stevenson –Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde August Strindberg – Getting Married (Giftas), vol. II (short stories) Leo Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Ilyicha)Tolstoy Leo The Death of Ivan Ilyich: The Story and Its Writer 1886 Bedford/St. Martin's (2011) Ann Charters 794–833 Jules Verne The Lottery Ticket Robur the Conqueror Eduard Vilde – Musta mantliga mees (The Man in the Black Coat) Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam – Eva Futura Émile Zola – L'Œuvre Children and young people Louisa May Alcott – Jo's Boys Frances Hodgson Burnett – Little Lord Fauntleroy L. T. Meade – A World of Girls. The Story of a School Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped Drama Anton Chekhov – On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (<О вреде табака>, O vredye tabaka) Archibald Clavering Gunter – Prince Karl Henrik Ibsen – Rosmersholm Alexander Kielland – Tre Par Denman Thompson and George W. Ryer – The Old Homestead Leo Tolstoy – The Power of Darkness (<Власть тьмы>, Vlast′ t′my; not staged until 1902)Benedetti, Jean. (1999). Stanislavski: His Life and Art. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. 0-413-52520-1. William Butler Yeats – Mosada Non-fiction Edwin Abbott Abbott – The Kernel and the Husk Marian Alford – Needlework as Art Edward Wilmot Blyden – Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race Edward Dowden – The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Warren Felt Evans – Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics William Morris – A Dream of John Ball Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil Emily Ruete – Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiographyhttp://www.wdl.org/en/item/11754/ Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography World Digital Library 1888 2013-09-19 2021-03-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20210326085308/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11754/ dead Charles Taze Russell – The Plan of the Ages (later The Divine Plan of the Ages, vol. 1 of Millennial Dawn, later Studies in the Scriptures) A. E. Waite – The Mysteries of Magic Sir Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell – "Hobson-Jobson" Births January 1 – Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, English working class novelist and campaigner (died 1962) January 14 – Hugh Lofting, English children's writer (died 1947) February 11 – May Ziadeh, Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator (died 1941) February 13 – Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentinian novelist and poet (died 1927) March 1 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian poet and artist (died 1980)Frank Whitford Oskar Kokoschka, a Life Atheneum 1986 9780689117947 1 March 30 – Frances Cornford (née Darwin, FCC), English poet (died 1960) April 1 – Brita von Horn, Swedish dramatist, novelist and theatre director (died 1983) April 15 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian Acmeist poet (executed 1921) May 2 – Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (died 1956) May 16 – Vladislav Khodasevich, Russian poet and critic (died 1939) June 11 – Emma L. Brock, American children's author and illustrator (died 1974)Thornley, Stew (2004). Six Feet Under: A Graveyard Guide to Minnesota. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 8. 0-87351-514-5. June 26 – Donar Munteanu, Romanian poet and magistrate (died 1972) July 16 – Pierre Benoît, French novelist (died 1962) July 22 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-born Finnish writer (died 1954) July 24 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎), Japanese novelist (died 1965) September 8 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist (died 1967)Margaret Jolly Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms Taylor & Francis 2013 9781136787447 783 September 10 – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), poet, novelist and essayist (died 1961)Jed Rasula Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-garde to Prehistory Oxford University Press 2020 9780198833949 154 September 20 – Charles Williams, English poet, novelist, playwright and theologian (died 1945) https://www.charleswilliamssociety.org.uk/about/ About Charles Williams Hopkins G. W. S. Charles Williams Society Dictionary of National Biography August 19, 2025 October 4 – Lennox Robinson, Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer (died 1958) October 25 – Karl Polanyi (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (died 1964) November 1 – Hermann Broch, Austrian Modernist writer (died 1951) November 21 – Harold Nicolson, English author (died 1968) November 29 – Thomas Burke, English novelist and story writer (died 1945) December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and libertarian (died 1968) Victor Llona, Peruvian-born translator (died 1953) Deaths January 25 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Chilean historian (born 1831)Charles Dudley Warner A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII Cosimo, Incorporated 2008 547 March 17 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French publisher (born 1814) Verne Jules Robur the conqueror Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut 2017 9780819577283 xii March 27 – Sir Henry Taylor, English dramatist, poet and public official (born 1800)Taylor, Henry (1800-1886) April 9 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (born 1826) April 13 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist (born 1812)Lia Van Gemert Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2011 528 978-9-08964-129-8 May 4 – Eliza Lanesford Cushing, American Canadian dramatist, short story writer, and editor (born 1794) May 15 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (born 1830) Dickinson Emily Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 1995 9780472105861 42 May 17 – Erskine May, English constitutional theorist (born 1815) June 14 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (born 1823) July 9 – Roger Edwards, minister and writer (born 1811)s-EDWA-ROG-1811 Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister Gwilym Thomas Jones 1959 13 December 2021 July 16 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (born 1821) July 21 – Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, German historian (born 1811) August 9 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and antiquary (born 1810) September 25 – Hannah T. King, British-born American writer and pioneer (born 1808) October 21 – José Hernández, Argentine poet (born 1834) October 22 – Matilda Jane Evans, English-born Australian novelist (born 1827) November 21 – Johannes Scherr, German novelist and critic (born 1817) November 22 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American diarist (born 1823)Mary A. DeCredico Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life https://books.google.com/books?id=0dAdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 1 June 1996 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 978-1-4616-3916-9 158 December 12 – Johan Nicolai Madvig, Danish philologist (born 1804) Awards Newdigate Prize – R. L. GalesSavonarola, Newdigate Prize Poem, Recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford, 30 June 1886, by R. L. Gales. References 30em External links Published 1886 Books at Goodreads 1886 Books at Goodreads