1902 in literature

none 1902 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1902. Events January 5 The political drama Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, completed and published in 1835) by Georg Büchner (died 1837), is first performed, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in Berlin by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne.The Genius of the German Theater https://books.google.com/books?id=aWLVXJqn35UC 1968 425 George Bernard Shaw's controversial 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession receives its first performance at a private London club.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/460 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 460–461 January 23 – The first example of a Sherlockian game – a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in The Cambridge Review.Frank Sidgwick An Open Letter to Dr Watson The Cambridge Review http://www.bsiarchivalhistory.org/BSI_Archival_History/Sidgwick_essay.html 1902-01-23 2020-01-25 April – Mark Twain buys a home in Tarrytown, New York. On June 4 he receives an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Missouri. June 16 – Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege about the mathematical problem to become known as Russell's paradox.https://books.google.com/books?id=4ktC0UrG4V8C&pg=PA253 253 1997 The Frege Reader 978-0-631-19445-3 Gottlob Frege Beaney, Michael Oxford Blackwell July 1 – The Romanian language literary review Luceafărul begins publication in Budapest. August 6 – În sat sau la oraș (In the Village or in the City), by the Romanian peasant leader Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș, is performed in his native Mușătești, in front of an audience comprising Education Minister Spiru HaretVrânceanu Mircea 1947 Însemnările unui răsvrătit Bucharest Editura Socialistă 62 and some 2,000 villagers.Liviu Cernăianu Tradiții culturale la Mușătești Albina. Revistă Săptămînală a Așezămintelor Culturale 70 1029 5 September 9 – P. G. Wodehouse leaves his job at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company in London to become a freelance writer. On September 18, his first published novel, the St. Austin's school story The Pothunters, is published in London by A & C Black, as a truncation of the version in their Public School Magazine from January to March. thumb|The cover of the first trade edition Early October – Beatrix Potter's self-illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit (originally published privately a year earlier) appears in its first trade edition with Frederick Warne & Co in London. It sells 28,000 copies by the end of the year.Lear Linda 2007 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature New York St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-36934-7 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312369347 October 5 – Thousands attend the funeral of the French novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. They include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd – Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away – Very Little Disorder The New York Times 1902-10-06 November 4 – J. M. Barrie's comedy The Admirable Crichton is first performed, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh. It runs for 828 performances. December 5 – Leo Tolstoy's drama The Power of Darkness («Власть тьмы», Vlast' t'my, written in 1886) has its Russian-language première at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.Stanislavsky Constantin My Life in Art 1924 Geoffrey Bles London 400–403, 577 December 18 – Maxim Gorky's drama The Lower Depths – Scenes from Russian Life («На дне», Na dne) is first performed, at the Moscow Art Theatre, as a first major success for Konstantin Stanislavski as director and star. unknown date – The poet Ștefan Petică's cycle Fecioara în alb is published, marking a maturing of Romanian Symbolism.Cernat Paul Paul Cernat Avangarda românească și complexul periferiei: primul val Cartea Românească Bucharest 2007 15 New books Fiction Azorín – La voluntad (Volition) Jane Barlow – The Founding of Fortunes Pío Baroja – Camino de perfección (pasión mística) (Road to Perfection) Edward Harold Begbie (as Caroline Lewis) – Clara in Blunderland Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns The Grand Babylon Hotel Rhoda Broughton – LaviniaThe Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing Springer International Publishing 2022 9783030783181 679 Joseph Conrad Typhoon (serialized in The Pall Mall Magazine January–March and US book publication)The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad Cambridge University Press The Short Fiction Gail Fraser J. H. Stape 1996 2004 38–39] 0521484847 Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories, incorporating Youth: a Narrative (1898) and Heart of Darkness (first 1899) The End of the Tether Marie Corelli – Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy Miguel de Unamuno – Amor y pedagogía Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Sonatas: Memorias del Marqués de Bradomín – Sonata de otoño (Sonatas: The Pleasant Memories of the Marquis of Bradomín – Autumn Sonata) Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles Paul Laurence Dunbar – The Sport of the Gods Hamlin Garland – The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop André Gide – L'immoralisteGale, Cengage Learning A Study Guide for Andre Gide's "The Immoralist" https://books.google.com/books?id=B1KVDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3 29 June 2016 Gale, Cengage Learning 978-1-4103-4931-6 3 Ellen Glasgow – The Battle-Ground Annie French Hector – Kitty CostelloPeter Berresford Ellis Peter Tremayne Henry Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard: A Voice from the Infinite https://books.google.com/books?id=TysfAQAAIAAJ 1978 Routledge & K. Paul 978-0-7100-0026-2 147 Theodor Herzl – The Old New Land Violet Jacob – The Sheepstealers W. W. Jacobs – The Lady of the Barge (short stories, including "The Monkey's Paw") Henry James – The Wings of the Dove Alfred Jarry – Supermale (Le Surmâle: roman moderne) Mary Johnston – Audrey Olha Kobylianska – Zemlya (Land) Jack London – A Daughter of the Snows George Barr McCutcheon – Brewster's Millions Charles Major – Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall A. E. W. Mason – The Four FeathersJohn C. Tibbetts James M. Welsh The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film 2005 136–159 W. Somerset Maugham – Mrs Craddock Dmitri Merejkowski – The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci Frank Norris – The Pit (serialization) Luigi Pirandello – Il TurnoFiora A. Bassanese Understanding Luigi Pirandello University of South Carolina Press 1997 9781570030819 172 W. Heath Robinson – The Adventures of Uncle Lubin Saki – The Westminster Alice Percy Sykes – Ten Thousand Miles in Persiahttp://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/ A History of Persia World Digital Library 1921 2013-10-01 2021-03-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20210320113735/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/ dead Jules Verne – The Kip Brothers (Les Frères Kip) Eduard Vilde – Mahtra sõda (The War at Mahtra)Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers: Second series, Volume 2 2000 Steven Serafin Detroit 310Hasselblatt Cornelius Geschichte der estnischen Literatur: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart 2008 De Gruyter Berlin 311 Owen Wister – The VirginianWister, Owen (1902). The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New York: Gramercy Books. 0-517-12278-2 Children and young people L. Frank Baum – The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus J. M. Barrie – The Little White Bird (includes the story "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens") Edith Ogden Harrison – Prince Silverwings and other fairy tales William Dean Howells – The Flight of Pony Baker Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories for Little Children Bessie Marchant – Fleckie: A Story of the Desert, etc. E. Nesbit – Five Children and It Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit Edward Stratemeyer – The Young Volcano Explorers Mrs George de Horne Vaizey – A Houseful of Girls C. N. and A. M. Williamson – The Lightning Conductor: the Strange Adventures of a Motor-carRichardson Angelique The new woman in fiction and in fact: fin-de-siècle feminisms Palgrave Macmillan, in association with Institute for English Studies, University of London Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York 2002 9781349656035 75 Drama J. M. Barrie – The Admirable Crichton Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers – Le Cœur a ses raisonsCatalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections G. K. Hall 1967 980 Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș – În sat sau la oraș (In the Village or in the City, first performance) Clyde Fitch – The Girl with the Green Eyes Cosmo Gordon-Lennox – The Marriage of KittyAlan Goble The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film Walter de Gruyter 1999 111 Maxim Gorky – The Lower DepthsNaturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918. Claude Schumacher Glynne W. Wickham John Northam Cambridge University Press 1996 218 Haralamb Lecca – Septima. Câiniĭ Maurice Maeterlinck – Monna Vanna Frank Wedekind – King Nicolo W. B. Yeats – Cathleen Ní Houlihan Poetry 1902 in poetry Edwin James Brady – The Earthen Floor Walter de la Mare (as Walter Ramal) – Songs of ChildhoodCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxmhttp://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading9 A Time-Line of Poetry in English Representative Poetry Online University of Toronto 2008-12-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024145/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ 28 December 2008 live Ștefan Petică – Fecioara în alb Non-fiction Jane Addams – Democracy and Social Ethics James Allen – As a Man Thinketh Hilaire Belloc – The Path to RomeHilaire Belloc The Path to Rome https://books.google.com/books?id=JGhRAQAAIAAJ 1911 G. Allen iv Euclides da Cunha – Os Sertões (translated as Rebellion in the Backlands)Historical Abstracts: Modern history abstracts, 1775-1914. Part A https://books.google.com/books?id=ah9BAQAAIAAJ 2000 American Bibliographical Center 130 Arthur Conan Doyle – The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct Michael Fairless (pseudonym of Margaret Barber) – The Roadmender John A. Hobson – Imperialism: a study William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience Bertrand Russell – A Free Man's Worshipbeach William Wynn Westcott – Collectanea Hermetica (finishes publication) Births January 1 - Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir, Egyptian journalist and writer (d. 1981)محمد زكي عبد القادر https://www.maspero.eg/wps/portal/home/treasures/guests/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%20%D9%85%D9%86%20%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7/%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B9/031977d1-077c-4a91-8345-2e554916becb/ maspero.eg 20 July 2022 ar 20 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220720210352/https://www.maspero.eg/wps/portal/home/treasures/guests/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%20%D9%85%D9%86%20%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7/%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B9/031977d1-077c-4a91-8345-2e554916becb/ dead January 5 – Stella Gibbons, English novelist (died 1989) January 20 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish lyricist and dramatist (died 1963) January 30 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born architectural historian (died 1983) February 13 – Fernando Chaves, Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, and journalist (died 1999)http://aequatoria.com/chavez.html Ecuatorianos en Japon: KANSAI Fernando Chaves Reyes 2016-06-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20160809153957/http://aequatoria.com/chavez.html 2016-08-09 dead February 16 – Ion Călugăru, Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (died 1956) February 19 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and political activist (died 1992) February 27 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and journalist (died 1968) March 10 – Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (died 1994) March 29 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and short-story writer (died 1967)Christopher Lloyd Marcel Aymé: Uranus, La Tête Des Autres https://books.google.com/books?id=UvzwAAAAMAAJ 1994 University of Glasgow French and German Publications 978-0-85261-445-7 8 April 2 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974) April 6 – Julien Torma, French poet and dramatist (died 1933) April 9 – Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (died 1986) April 23 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (died 1998)Peter Hallberg Halldor Laxness https://books.google.com/books?id=zR1Q22sofYUC&pg=PA27 1971 Ardent Media 27 June 5 – Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (died 1982) July 10 – Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (died 1989) July 8 – Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African American writer and artist (died 1981) August 15 – Katharine Brush, American short story writer (died 1952) August 16 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (died 1974)Contemporary Popular Writers St. James Press 1997 9781558622166 197 August 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet and humorist (died 1971)Cleveland Amory International Celebrity Register https://books.google.com/books?id=bivTAAAAMAAJ 1959 Celebrity Register 543 August 24 Felipe Alfau, Spanish-American fiction writer, poet and translator (died 1999)Regina Galasso Translating New York: The City's Languages in Iberian Literatures Liverpool University Press 2018 9781786948670 29 Fernand Braudel, French historian (died 1985) October 13 – Arna Bontemps, African American poet (died 1973) October 23 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespeare scholar (died 1999) October 26 – Beryl Markham (Beryl Clutterbuck), English-born Kenyan adventurer and memoirist (died 1986)Margo McLoone Jacquelyn L. Beyer Women Explorers of the Air: Harriet Quimby, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, Jacqueline Cochran Capstone Books 1999 9780736803106 33 October 31 – Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987)John Nist The Modernist Movement in Brazil: A Literary Study University of Texas Press 2014 9781477304525 129 November 1 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author (killed in action 1943)20th-century Plays in Synopsis T. Y. Crowell Company 1966 476 November 2 Hu Feng (胡风), Chinese novelist (died 1985) Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (died 1983) November 29 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer (died 1975) December 20 – Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright (died 1963)Ursula Seeber Alisa Douer Edith Blaschitz Kleine Verbündete: vertriebene österreichische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur https://books.google.com/books?id=RG8aAQAAMAAJ 1998 Picus 978-3-85452-276-8 de Deaths thumb|Émile Zola in 1902 January 7 – Wilhelm Hertz, German poet and translator (born 1835) April 6 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (born 1843)Nikita Prut︠s︡kov Gleb Uspensky Twayne 1972 154 April 20 – Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (born 1834) April 21 – Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (born 1866)http://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=FMJ%2F1902%2F04%2F03&id=Ar00524&sk=8311E50C Death of Mrs Seamus MacManus Freeman's Journal 21 April 2017 May 5 – Bret Harte, American author and poet (born 1836)https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=vfT5ieZw1WcC&dat=19020506&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Newburgh Daily Journal May 6, 1902 Bret Harte Dead January 28, 2022 May 6 – Emma Augusta Sharkey, American dime novelist (born 1858)Kaser James A. The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=SVYtBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA295 July 29, 2014 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-9204-0 295 May 17/18 — Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge, American philanthropist, author and reformer (b. 1849) June 10 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (born 1845)Baedeker's Barcelona Prentice Hall Travel New York 1992 9780130635617 43 June 18 – Samuel Butler, English novelist (born 1835)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 8 2004 Oxford University Press 216 0-19-861359-8Article by Elinor Shaffer. August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (born 1828)Wolf Hugo Letters to Melanie Köchert University of Wisconsin Press Madison, Wis 2003 9780299194444 xxxvii September 11 – Ernst Dümmler, German historian (born 1830)Dümmler, Ernst Ludwig 8 665 September 19 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡 子規), Japanese haiku poet (born 1867)Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Kodansha 1983 124 September 29 William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel poet (born 1825)40706 McGonagall, William William Donaldson 2004 Émile Zola, French novelist (carbon monoxide poisoning, born 1840)http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/strange-death-emile-zola The Strange Death of Emile Zola History Today Volume 52 9 September 2002 21 February 2017 October 7 – George Rawlinson, English historian (born 1812) October 13 – John George Bourinot, Canadian historian (born 1836) October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist (peritonitis, born 1870)Frank Norris, the novelist, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis performed three days ago https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/10/26/118483563.pdf The New York Times October 26, 1902 January 28, 2022 October 31 – Cornélie Huygens, Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist (born 1848)Cornélie Huygens https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=huyg004 DBNL 29 May 2019 nl November 16 – G. A. Henty, English historical novelist (born 1832)Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, 1349-1897: Admissions since January 1, 1899. Chronicle of the College estates https://books.google.com/books?id=o45BAAAAYAAJ 1912 University Press 126 November 20 – George W. Ryer, American playwright and theatrical manager (born 1845)https://www.nytimes.com/1902/11/22/archives/death-list-of-a-day-george-w-ryer.html Death List of a Day.; George W. Ryer. The New York Times November 22, 1902 9 December 26 – Mary Hartwell Catherwood, American author and poet (born 1849)Price Robert Catherwood, Mary Hartwell Edward T. James Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary 1 1971 978-0-67462-734-5 308 Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen References 30em External links Popular Books of 1902 at Goodreads Published 1902 Books at Goodreads 1902 Books at Goodreads