1878 in literature

none 1878 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878. Events thumb|Front page of the first issue of the Yale Daily News, then called The Yale News, published January 28, 1878. January 28 – The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.https://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/yale-daily-news-historical-archive Yale Daily News Historical Archive Yale University Library 28 October 2020 June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories The Suicide Club begin publication in The London Magazine. The stories feature Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine, who infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives.Rattiner Susan L. Robert Louis Stevenson The Suicide Club 2000 https://archive.org/details/suicideclub0000stev registration Dover Thrift Editions Dover Publications, Inc. Mineola, New York vii–iii Notes 9780486414164 June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS Mavis. July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria.Autobiographical account published in his More Poetic Gems. August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France.http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/julian-barnes/on-we-sail Julian Barnes Julian Barnes On We Sail London Review of Books 2009-11-05 31 21 2015-12-17 October – The Peabody Institute Library (later George Peabody Library) opens to the public in Baltimore, Maryland.History The George Peabody Library Baltimore Johns Hopkins University 2005 2013-11-29 http://www.peabodyevents.library.jhu.edu/history.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100604172628/http://www.peabodyevents.library.jhu.edu/history.html 2010-06-04 December 30 – Henry Irving's production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management).Moira Shearer Moira Shearer Ellen Terry Stroud Sutton Publishing 1998 0-7509-1526-9 Pocket Biographies 69 unknown dates Anton Chekhov writes his first substantial play, known as Platonov, but it is not completed, titled, performed or published in his lifetime.The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama Cody, Gabrielle H. Sprinchorn, Evert Columbia University Press 2007 978-0-231-14424-7 2 1077 The Johns Hopkins University Press is established in Baltimore, Maryland, as the University Publication Agency, making it the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States.Jeff Camhi A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas https://books.google.com/books?id=3qodTxXkEgEC&pg=PA149 2013-08-31 2013 Algora Publishing New York 978-0-87586-989-6 149 The Remington No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters, is introduced in the United States.Charles Kendall Adams Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia: A New Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=OrROAQAAMAAJ 1899 D. Appleton 329 New books Fiction William Harrison Ainsworth – Beatrice TyldesleyGeorge John Worth William Harrison Ainsworth Twayne Publishers 1972 123 Mary Elizabeth Braddon – An Open Verdict Wilkie Collins – The Haunted Hotel José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – Cousin Bazilio (O Primo Basílio)Shepherd Andrew Eça de Queiroz and the English British Historical Society Annual Report 2019 46 103 https://www.bhsportugal.org/library/articles/eca-de-queiroz-and-the-english 23 November 2025 Theodor Fontane – Vor dem Sturm (Before the Storm)Theodor Fontane Vor dem Sturm. Roman aus dem Winter 1812 auf 13 Hehle, Christine Berlin 2011 Große Brandenburger Ausgabe, Das erzählerische Werk, Bd. 1 und 2 978-3-351-03114-5 German Anna Katharine Green – The Leavenworth Case Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native (serialized in Belgravia) Henry James Daisy Miller Burnside John John Burnside's Book of a Lifetime: Daisy Miller by Henry James The Independent London 6 February 2014 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/john-burnsides-book-of-a-lifetime-daisy-miller-by-henry-james-9112815.html 24 December 2015 The Europeans William Hurrell Mallock The New Paul and Virginia The New Republic Ellen Buckingham Mathews (as Helen Mathers) – Cherry Ripe Margaret Oliphant – The Primrose Path Anne Eliza Smith – Seola Robert Louis Stevenson The Suicide Club The Rajah's Diamond Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina («Анна Каренина», book publication) Émile Zola – Une Page d'amour Children and young people Randolph Caldecott – The House that Jack Built Hector Malot – Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy) Jules Verne – Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (Un Capitaine de quinze ans)Piero Gondolo della Riva Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne I Société Jules Verne 1977 Evelyn Whitaker – Miss Toosey's Mission. A Tale Drama Ion Luca Caragiale – A Stormy Night (O noapte furtunoasă sau Numĕrul 9) José Echegaray – En el pilar y en la cruz (The Stake and the Cross)Horst Frenz Literature, 1901-1967 https://books.google.com/books?id=FeXbUO31BO4C&pg=PA34 1999 World Scientific 978-981-02-3413-3 34 W. S. Gilbert – The Ne'er-do-Weel* Knight, Joseph. Theatrical Notes, (Lawrence & Bullen: 1893), pp. 206–15 Poetry 1878 in poetry Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy – The Dream of Councillor Popov Non-fiction François Callet – Tantara ny Andriana eto Madagasikara Richard Jefferies – The Gamekeeper at Home Friedrich Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches) Robert Louis Stevenson – An Inland Voyage Births January 4 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (died 1957) January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (died 1967) January 12 – Ferenc Molnár (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian playwright and novelist (died 1952) March 14 – Victor Bridges, English novelist, playwright and poet (died 1972) April 15 – Robert Walser, Swiss author and poet writing in German (died 1956) June 1 – John Masefield, English poet (died 1967) June 12 – James Oliver Curwood, American author (died 1927) August 2 – Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romantic novelist (died 1978)Authors: Ruck, Berta: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruck_berta www.sf-encyclopedia.com 16 February 2020 August 10 – Louis Esson, Scottish-born Australian poet and playwright (died 1943) September 20 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist (died 1968) September 22 – F. J. Harvey Darton English children's literature historian and publisher (died 1936) November 25 – Georg Kaiser, German dramatist (died 1945) December 15 – Hans Carossa, German novelist and poet (died 1956) Deaths January 8 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (born 1821) Lebedev, Yu, V. 1990 http://az.lib.ru/n/nekrasow_n_a/text_0350.shtml Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseyevich Russian Writers. Biobibliographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. Ed. P.A.Nikolayev. Moscow. Prosveshchenye Publishers. 1 May 2014 January 19 – Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (born 1814) February 1 – George Cruikshank, English illustrator (born 1792) April 24 – Heinrich Leo, Prussian historian (born 1799) April 25 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (born 1820) May 28 – Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier, Lithuanian novelist (born 1790) July 1 – Catherine Winkworth, English translator (born 1827)http://songsandhymns.org/people/detail/catherine-winkworth Catherine Winkworth - The Center For Church Music, Songs and Hymns songsandhymns.org 1 September 2017 July 17 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (born 1812)Aleardi, Aleardo 1 538 August 13 George Gilfillan, Scottish poet and author (born 1813) Elizabeth Prentiss, American poet and hymnist (born 1818) November 3 – Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood), English children's writer November 17 – Karl Theodor Keim, German theologian (born 1825) November 20 – William Thomas, Welsh-language poet (born 1832)s-THOM-WIL-1832 Thomas, William (Islwyn;1832-1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet David Gwenallt Jones 1959 10 March 2023 December 5 – George Whyte-Melville, Scottish-born novelist (hunting accident, born 1821) December 19 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (born 1825) December 31 – Giulietta Pezzi, Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (born 1810) Awards Newdigate prize – Oscar Wilde, "Ravenna"Oscar Wilde Ravenna http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1358/ 1878 2015-12-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20151205062242/http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1358/ 2015-12-05 dead. 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