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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.—Opening lines of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Events
right|thumb|George Murray Smith conceived of the Dictionary of National Biography, subsidized it, and saw it finally into print before he died in 1901.
January 1 – The Dictionary of National Biography begins publication in London under the editorship of Leslie Stephen.Gillian Fenwick Leslie Stephen's Life in Letters: A Bibliographical Study https://books.google.com/books?id=3FdbAAAAMAAJ 1993 Scolar Press 978-0-85967-912-1 237
February 18 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in the United States for the first time, in New York by the author's own publishing house, Charles L. Webster, illustrated by E. W. Kemble, the first impression having been delayed for replacement of an unauthorized obscene alteration to one of the illustrative plates. Its first-person narrative in colloquial language is initially controversial but ultimately influential in the development of realism in American literature.Walter Blair (academic) Walter Blair Mark Twain & Huck Finn Berkeley University of California 1960All Modern Literature Comes from One Book by Mark Twain Bauman Rare Books Philadelphia 2013-01-07 http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/twain-mark/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/63515.aspx
March 7 – José Echegaray's play La vida alegre y muerte triste opens in Spain.Crónicas y artículos sobre teatro https://books.google.com/books?id=1H_QIEHEkRgC&pg=PA563 2001 UNAM 978-968-36-8971-9 563 es
March 19 – Bolesław Prus's first major naturalistic novel, The Outpost (Placówka), begins serialization in the Polish illustrated weekly, Wędrowiec.
May – Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.Martha Kapos The Post-impressionists: A Retrospective https://books.google.com/books?id=9V3XvsR2PlAC 1993 Beaux Arts Editions 978-0-88363-963-4 134
May 16 – Sakuradoki Zeni no Yononaka ("The Season of Cherry Blossoms; The World of Money"), an adaptation by Genzo Katsu after Bunkai Udagawa of The Merchant of Venice set in the Edo period, is performed by the Nakamura Sojuro Kabuki company at the Ebisu-za Theater in Osaka, the first of Shakespeare's plays to be staged with actors in Japan.Yoshiko Kawachi The Merchant of Venice and Japanese Culture Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries University of Delaware Press Newark 1998 9780874136739
May 19 – The Revised Version Old Testament is published.
June 1 – More than two million people join Victor Hugo's funeral procession in Paris from the Arc de Triomphe to the Panthéon, where he is the first author to be buried, following his death on May 22 in the city from pneumonia aged 83.
June 29 – Thomas Hardy moves to a house he designed for himself and built by his brother at Max Gate on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset.http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hardy-country/ National Trust Hardy Country 2013-04-30
December 6 – Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society.Dunstan Angela 2014-06-01 The Shelley Society, Literary Lectures, and the Global Circulation of English Literature and Scholarly Practice https://www.academia.edu/4127594/_The_Shelley_Society_Literary_Lectures_and_the_Global_Circulation_of_English_Literature_and_Scholarly_Practice_Modern_Language_Quarterly_75_2_June_2014_279_96 Modern Language Quarterly en 75 2 279–296 10.1215/00267929-2416635 0026-7929
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Arthur Napier is appointed first Merton Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Oxford.
John Ormsby's English translation of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is published. For many years it is regarded as the most accurate translation of the novel.
The first translation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace into English begins publication. It has been done by Clara Bell from a French version.
The first translation of Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton)'s Christian novel Christie's Old Organ into Japanese, made by Tajima Kashi, is published, one of the earliest examples of children's literature in Japan.Torigoe Shin (ed.) (2004). Interesting Reading Japanese Children's Literature: Pre-war Period. Kyōto: Minerva Shobō. pp 14–15. 鳥越信『たのしく読める日本児童文学 戦前編』、ミネルヴァ書房、京都、2004年。
Daniel Owen's long novel Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel is published as the first written in Welsh.John T. Koch The Celts: History, Life, and Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=3cHdQC1cXLEC&pg=PA793 2012 ABC-CLIO 978-1-59884-964-6 793
New books
Fiction
Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) – La regenta, vol. 2
Mathilde Blind - Tanantella: A Romance
Richard Francis Burton – The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments
Hall Caine
She's All the World to Me
The Shadow of a Crime
Mrs. W. K. Clifford – Mrs. Keith's Crime
Antonio Fogazzaro – Daniele Cortis
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. – A Mortal Antipathy
William Dean Howells – The Rise of Silas Lapham
Richard Jefferies – After London
Jerome K. Jerome – On the Stage — and Off
Sarah Orne Jewett - A Marsh Island
Henry Francis Keenan - The Money Makers (Published anonymously.)
Eliza Lynn Linton – The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland
Guy de Maupassant – Bel-Ami
George Meredith – Diana of the CrosswaysGeorge Meredith Diana Of the Crossways: a Novel: By George Meredith ... In Three Volumes https://books.google.com/books?id=DIm0zQEACAAJ 1885 Chapman and Hall
Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra (publication concluded)
Daniel Owen – Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel
Walter Pater – Marius the Epicurean
Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥) – Tōsei Shosei Katagi (Portraits of Contemporary Students)
Elizabeth Stannard (as John Strange Winter) – Booties' Baby: a story of the Scarlet Lancers
Jules Vallés – Jacques Vingtras
Jules Verne – Mathias Sandorf
Émile Zola – Germinal
Children and young people
Lewis Carroll – A Tangled Tale
H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon's Mines
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (originally Penny Whistles)
Prince Otto
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U.S. publication)
Drama
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson – Geografi og KærlighedBjørnstjerne Bjørnson Geografi og kaerlighed https://books.google.com/books?id=w709AAAAYAAJ 1885 Gyldendalske boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son)
Arthur Wing Pinero – The MagistrateDavid Scott Kastan The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC&pg=RA3-PA230 2006 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-516921-8 3
Poetry
See 1885 in poetry
Non-fiction
J. W. Cross (ed.) – George Eliot's Life, as related in her letters and journals
Anténor Firmin – De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (On the Equality of Human Races)
Tsubouchi Shōyō ((坪内 逍遥) – Shōsetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel)
Births
January 16 – Zhou Zuoren (周作人), Chinese vernacular writer (died 1967)
February 7 – Sinclair Lewis, American novelist (died 1951)Martin Bucco G. K. Hall & Company Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis https://books.google.com/books?id=o06vAAAAIAAJ 1986 G.K. Hall 978-0-8161-8698-3 1
February 21 – Sacha Guitry, French dramatist and screenwriter (died 1957)Radio Liberty Research Bulletin https://books.google.com/books?id=i4zwAAAAMAAJ 1985 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 8
February 24 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish painter, playwright and novelist (died 1939)
March 6 – Ring Lardner, American writer (died 1933)
March 25 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian novelist and poet (died 1936)
March 27 – Constantin Gane, Romanian biographer and historical novelist (died 1962)
April 17 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (died 1962)O. Classe [Anonymus AC02468681] Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA158 2000 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-36-7 158
May 2 – Hedda Hopper, American columnist (died 1966)
May 8 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian author and journalist (died 1965)Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1953 https://books.google.com/books?id=BeeiQW67jAsC June 1953 Hw Wilson Company 978-0-8242-0119-7 124
May 9 – Al. T. Stamatiad, Romanian poet (died 1955)
July 10 – Mary O'Hara, American author and screenwriter (died 1980)Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults https://books.google.com/books?id=QkPhAAAAMAAJ 1989 Beacham Pub. 978-0-933833-11-1 929
July 18 – Marino Moretti, Italian poet and author (died 1979)Gaetana Marrone Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J https://books.google.com/books?id=69ey6Z-05fMC&pg=PA1238 2007 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-390-3 1238
August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1968)Kirstin Olsen Chronology of Women's History Westport Greenwood Press 1994 191 978-0-31328-803-6
September 7 – Elinor Wylie (Elinor Morton Hoyt), American poet and novelist (died 1928)Education Manual United States Armed Forces Institute 1942 325
September 11 – D. H. Lawrence, English fiction writer and poet (died 1930)John Worthen D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence https://books.google.com/books?id=l_tSP0DZzK0C&pg=PR23 31 July 1992 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-43772-1 23
September 24 – Shane Leslie, Irish author (died 1971)World Authors, 1900-1950 H.W. Wilson 1996 1356
October 3 – Sophie Treadwell, American dramatist and journalist (died 1970)
October 11 – François Mauriac, French novelist (died 1970)K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Francois Mauriac: Novelist & Moralist https://books.google.com/books?id=ay4nAAAAMAAJ 1963 Asia Publishing House 2
October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet (died 1972)Lawrence S. Rainey Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos https://books.google.com/books?id=ajVbyQLNRLwC&pg=PA43 15 December 1991 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-70316-9 43
November 9 (October 28 O.S.) – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian Futurist poet and writer (died 1922)
December 8 – Kenneth Roberts, American novelist (died 1957)https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/people/948 Roberts, Kenneth L., 1885-1957 Dartmouth College Library September 18, 2022
Deaths
January 10 – Amable Tastu, French women of letters and poet (born 1795)
February 14 – Jules Vallés, French writer (born 1832)
March 17 – Susan Warner (pseudonym Elizabeth Weatherell), American religious and children's writer (born 1819)
April 8 – Susanna Moodie, English-born Canadian author (born 1803)
April 18 – Marc Monnier, French author and translator (born 1827)The Academy and Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=PS1MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA293 1885 293
April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish novelist (born 1847)
May 13 – Juliana Horatia Ewing, English children's writer (born 1841)
May 15 – Hugh Conway, English novelist (born 1847)
May 22 – Victor Hugo, French poet and novelist (born 1802)Albert W. Halsall Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama https://books.google.com/books?id=CTyPQqvgHnUC&pg=PA206 1 January 1998 University of Toronto Press 978-0-8020-4322-1 206
June 18 – Louis Segond, Swiss theologian (born 1810)
July 13 – Augusto Vera, Italian philosopher (born 1813)
July 15 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish Galician poet and writer (born 1837)
August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English man of letters, poet and politician (born 1809)
September 18 – John Campbell Shairp, Scottish critic (born 1819)
November 29 – Anne Gilchrist, English-born American critic and biographer (emphysema, born 1828)http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/gilchrist/gilchristbio.html Gilchrist Family Papers – Biographical Sketch University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Philadelphia 2013-01-07 2005-08-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20050827225859/http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/gilchrist/gilchristbio.html dead
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