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1911 literature poetry
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1911.
Events
January – The journal Ay Qap begins monthly publication in Arabic script in Troitsk, to promote modern Kazakh literature and progressive thought.
February–March – Antisemitic riots break out in Paris over the staging of Henri Bernstein's Après moi by the Comédie-Française.1911-03-06 Riots in Paris. Unpopular Theatrical Production The Mercury 5 Hobart The riots were instigated by the far-right Action Française which was led by writer Charles Maurras, but in conjunction with the far-left Guerre Sociale.Passmore Kevin The Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy Oxford University Press Oxford 2013 174 978-0-19-965820-6
March
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris plans a Futurist conference and publishes a manifesto, Le futurisme, at Sansot.Bribuega Jaime De Felice, Renzo Renzo De Felice Futurismo, cultura e politica Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli Turin 1988 413 Futurismo, ultraismo e culture politiche nell'area ispanica 88-7860-016-4
Publication in The Strand Magazine (London) of the P. G. Wodehouse short story "Absent Treatment" introducing the character Reggie Pepper, a prototype for Bertie Wooster.Wodehouse P. G. P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters W. W. Norton & Co 2013 Ratcliffe Sophie 74 978-0786422883
March 29 – The 1911 New York State Capitol fire in Albany destroys 700,000 books and documents belonging to the New York State Library.Jeff Wilkin 1911 fire at state Capitol left hole in cultural heritage https://dailygazette.com/2011/03/27/0327_capitolfire/ 2011-03-27 2021-09-29 The Daily Gazette Schenectady
April – Hugo Gernsback begins to publish his pioneering science fiction novel Ralph 124C 41+ in the monthly U.S. magazine Modern Electrics.
c. April 8 – The English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, as the first of the Dymock poets.Jeff Cooper Timeline of the Dymock Poets Friends of the Dymock Poets http://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm 2014-07-03 2015-06-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20150621185638/http://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm dead
May 9 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
May 31 – The French publishers Éditions Gallimard is founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard as Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (nrf). Its first publication is Paul Claudel's play L'Otage.
Summer – Jaroslav Hašek begins publishing stories of The Good Soldier Švejk (Dobrý voják Švejk) in the Prague newspaper Karikatura, edited by the illustrator Josef Lada.
September 7 – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, writing as "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris on August 21 and imprisoned for six days. This year he publishes his first book of poetry, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée.Auster, Paul The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets New York Random House 1982 0-394-52197-8 registration https://archive.org/details/randomhousebooko00aust
October 16 – The new building for the Mitchell Library opens in Glasgow.Lord Rosebery On Books: The Mitchell Library in Glasgow The Times London 1911-10-17 4 39718
October 17 – Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen, the later German novelist Hans Fallada, kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel.
November
The Kalem Company of New York agrees to pay the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 for having adapted Ben Hur (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.
Virginia Stephen begins to share her brother Adrian Stephen's London house at 38 Brunswick Square with other members of the Bloomsbury Group: Leonard Woolf (her future husband), John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant.Chronology in Oxford World's Classics editions of her works.
December 16 – The U.K. Copyright Act consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries to which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library (London); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); the Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.
New books
Fiction
Pío Baroja
Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía
The Tree of Knowledge (El árbol de la ciencia)
Lima Barreto – Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma (The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma)
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
Hilaire Belloc – The Four Men: a Farrago
Arnold Bennett – The Card
J. D. Beresford – The Hampdenshire Wonder
Ambrose Bierce – The Devil's Dictionary
Algernon Blackwood – The Centaur
J. E. Casely-Hayford – Ethiopia Unbound
Katharine Hopkins Chapman - The Fusing Force
G. K. Chesterton – The Innocence of Father Brown
Hugh Clifford – The Downfall of the Gods
Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes
Marie Corelli – Life Everlasting
Warwick Deeping - Fox Farm
Penelope Delta – Paramythi Horis Onoma (A Tale Without a Name)
Theodore Dreiser – Jennie Gerhardt
W. E. B. Du Bois – The Quest of the Silver Fleece
Edna Ferber – Dawn O'Hara
Ford Madox Ford – Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
E. M. Forster – The Celestial Omnibus
R. Austin Freeman – The Eye of Osiris
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Moving the Mountain
Anna Katharine Green – Initials Only
Ian Hay – A Safety Match
Robert Hichens – The Fruitful Vine
Violet Jacob – Flemington
Pauline Johnson – Legends of Vancouver
Mary Johnston – The Long Roll
Eduard von Keyserling – Wellen
Valery Larbaud – Fermina Márquez
D. H. Lawrence – The White Peacock
Stephen Leacock – Nonsense Novels
Gaston Leroux
Balaoo
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, book publication)
William John Locke — The Glory of Clementina Wing
Katherine Mansfield – In a German Pension (short stories)
John Masefield
Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers
The Street of Today
A. E. W. Mason – Miranda of the Balcony
E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Temptation of Tavernake
Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外) – The Wild Geese (雁, Gan, serialization begins)
Baroness Orczy – A True Woman
Forrest Reid – The Bracknels
Ameen Rihani – The Book of Khalid
Saki – The Chronicles of Clovis
Una Lucy Silberrad
The Affairs of John Bolsover
Sampson Rideout, Quaker
Preah Botumthera Som – Dik ram phka ram (The Dancing Water and the Dancing Flower)
Bram Stoker – The Lair of the White Worm
Gene Stratton-Porter – The Harvester
Kathleen Thompson Norris – Mother
Sigrid Undset – Jenny
Hugh Walpole – Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Mary Augusta Ward – The Case of Richard Meynell
H. G. Wells – The New Machiavelli
Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome
Owen Wister – Padre Ignacio
Jerzy Żuławski – Stara Ziemia (The Old Earth), last of the Trylogia Księżycowa (Lunar Trilogy)
Children and young people
Victor Appleton - Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
J. M. Barrie – Peter and Wendy (later editions Peter Pan and Wendy)
L. Frank Baum
The Sea Fairies
The Daring Twins
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (as Edith Van Dyne)
The Flying Girl (as Edith Van Dyne)
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
L. M. Montgomery – The Story Girl
Ferenc Móra – Mindenki Jánoskája (Johnny to Everyone)
Lucy Fitch Perkins – Dutch Twins (first in the Twins series)
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
Jean Webster – Just Patty
Drama
Hugo Ball – Die Nase des Michelangelo. Tragikomödie in vier Auftritten
Tristan Bernard – The Little Cafe (Le petit café)
Hall Caine – The Quality of Mercy (Also known as The Unwritten Law; a new version of Jan the Icelander)
George Diamandy – Dolorosa
St. John Greer Ervine – Mixed Marriage
A. de Herz
Biruința (Victory)
Când ochii plâng (When Eyes Shed Tears)
Edward Knoblock – Kismet
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Canción de cuna (Cradle Song)
Primavera en otoño (Spring in Autumn)
Charles McEvoy – All That Matters
[Mrs] Clifford Mills – Where the Rainbow Ends
Emma Orczy – The Duke's Wager
Louis N. Parker – Disraeli
Rainis – Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija)
Arthur Schnitzler – Das weite Land (The Vast Domain, The Distant Land, or Undiscovered Country)
George Bernard Shaw – Fanny's First Play
Karl Vollmöller – The Miracle (Das Mirakel)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Jedermann
W. B. Yeats – The Countess Cathleen (adapted for performance)
Poetry
1911 in poetry
Edwin James Brady – River Rovers
Else Lasker-Schüler – Meine Wunder
John Masefield – The Everlasting Mercy
Non-fiction
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
Wassily Kandinsky – Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art; dated 1912)
Walter John Kilner – The Human Atmosphere
Jack London – The Cruise of the Snark
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti – Le futurisme
Robert Michels – Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie; Untersuchungen über die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens)
George Moore – Ave (part 1 of his three-volume autobiography, Hail and Farewell)Norman A. Jeffares W.B. Yeats https://books.google.com/books?id=F77RAvreVGMC&pg=PA172 17 June 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-21231-4 172
John Muir – My First Summer in the Sierra
R. Scott-Moncrieff (editor) – The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie, 1692–1733
C. T. Onions – A Shakespeare Glossary
Percy Simpson – Shakespearean Punctuation
Rudolf Steiner – Mystics of the Renaissance (English translation)
Evelyn Underhill – Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness
A. E. Waite
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry
Births
January 9 – Eva Alexanderson, Swedish novelist and translator (died 1994)http://www.oversattarlexikon.se/artiklar/Eva_Alexanderson Eva Alexanderson, 1911–1994 Svenskt översättarlexikon Annika Ruth Persson 12 April 2016 Swedish
January 18 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian author (died 1969)Siemens William L. Chronology: José María Arguedas Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 1980 14 25–26 12–15 10.1080/08905768008594020 Taylor & Francis
January 22 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist (died 2005)http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/05/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Obituary: Mary Hayley Bell 5 December 2005 The Guardian
January 24
C. L. Moore, American science fiction author (died 1987)Congress The Library of Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50028286.html id.loc.gov 15 March 2019
L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction writer, founder of Scientology (died 1986)
February 4 – Geoffrey Willans, English novelist and comic writer (died 1958)
February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (died 1979)
February 17 – Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer (died 1995)Authors : St Clair, Margaret SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/st_clair_margaret 2019-03-15
March 11 – Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish political writer and autobiographer (died 1996)
March 15 – Ursula Vaughan Williams, British poet, novelist and biographer (died 2007)Robert Ponsonby Obituary: Ursula Vaughan Williams https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ursula-vaughan-williams-397792.html The Independent 25 October 2007 29 October 2007
March 16 – Sybille Bedford, German-born English novelist and journalist (died 2006)
March 26 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (died 1983)Roudané Matthew Charles The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams Cambridge University Press 1997 https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00matt registration xvi 978-0521498838
April 8 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (died 1995)2011-10-23 Obituary: Emil Cioran https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-emil-cioran-1588019.html 2021-03-22 The Independent en
April 19
Frank Barlow, English historian, (died 2009)101439 Frank Barlow (1911–2009))
Ursula Moray Williams, English children's writer (died 2006)Eccleshare Julia Obituary: Ursula Moray Williams https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/15/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries The Guardian 19 August 2019 15 November 2006
May 15 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (died 1991)Frisch, Max (1911–1991). In Suzanne M. Bourgoin and Paula K. Byers, Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
May 20 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author (died 1995)
May 28 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (died 1986)
June 2 – Xiao Hong (Qiao Yin, 張廼瑩) Chinese author (died 1942)
June 15 - Wilbert Awdry, British Anglican reverend and children's author (died 1997)
June 6 – Verna Aardema (Verna Norberg), American children's author (died 2000)
June 30 – Czesław Miłosz, Lithuanian-born Polish author, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (died 2004)
July 17 – Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (died 2016)
July 21 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist (died 1980)
July 22 – George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (died 1988)
July 27 – Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist and poet (died 1981)
September 19 – William Golding, British novelist, playwright and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (died 1993)
October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Albanian poet and writer (died 1938)
November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize winner (died 1996)
November 19 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (died 1995)
November 28 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (died 1973)
December 4 – Robert Payne, English author, poet and biographer (died 1983)
December 11 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize in literature winner (died 2006)Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) http://www.aucpress.com/t-aboutnm.aspx The American University in Cairo Press AUC Press 26 October 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20170602051825/http://www.aucpress.com/t-aboutnm.aspx 2 June 2017 dead
December 25 – Noel Langley, South African-born American screenwriter (died 1980)
Deaths
January 23 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (murdered, born 1867)
February 25 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist, literary theorist and translator (born 1829)
March 7 – Antonio Fogazzaro, Italian novelist (born 1842)
April 14 – George Cary Eggleston, American memoirist (born 1839)
April 25 – Emilio Salgari, Italian adventure novelist (suicide, born 1862)http://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/salgari.htm Francesco Troiano Biography of Emilio Salgari Italica Rai 2009-04-30 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080609111653/https://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/salgari.htm 2008-06-09
April 30 – Stanisław Brzozowski, Polish philosopher, publicist and critic (tuberculosis, born 1878)
May 1 – Hannah Whitall Smith, American Quaker author (born 1832)Marie Henry The Secret Life of Hannah Whitall Smith https://books.google.com/books?id=_wXnAAAAMAAJ 1984 Chosen Books 978-0-310-60790-8 166
May 9 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage (born 1823)
May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, English librettist, dramatist and comic poet (born 1836)
June 7 – Henry Abbey, American poet (born 1842)
June 10 – Adolf Wilbrandt, German novelist and dramatist (born 1837)
June 14 – Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, Irish-born London writer, translator and journalist (born 1863)
July 21 – Philippe Monnier, Swiss writer in French (born 1864)https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/015951/2014-08-04/ Monnier, Philippe Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse fr 10 January 2021
September 4 – John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, historian, and cartographer (born 1854)
September 5 – Katherine Thurston, Irish novelist (born 1875)
September 9 – Francis March, American lexicographer and philologist (born 1825)
September 23 – John Arthur Barry, English author and journalist (born 1850)
October 6 – Martha D. Lincoln ("Bessie Beech"), American author and journalist (born 1838)
October 8 – Hesba Stretton (Sarah Smith), English children's writer (born 1832)
October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born American journalist and publisher (born 1847)
November 9
Mary Fortune, Australian writer of detective fiction (born 1832)Sussex Lucy Burrows John Lucy Sussex Whodunit?: Literary Forensics and the Crime Writing of James Skipp Borlase and Mary Fortune Bulletin Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 1997 21 2 73–106 https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.980706766 0084-7852 subscription
Howard Pyle, American children's author (born 1853)
December 1 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and fiction writer (born 1882)
December 22 – Catharine H. T. Avery, American author, editor, and educator (born 1844)
December 13 – Henrietta Stannard, English novelist (writing as John Strange Winter, born 1856)
December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, English poet (born 1860)
Awards
Newdigate Prize: Roger Heath, "Achilles"Roger Meyrick Heath Achilles: The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1911 https://books.google.com/books?id=1go1AAAAMAAJ 1911 B. H. Blackwell
Nobel Prize for Literature: Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
Prix Goncourt: Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Monsieur des LourdinesAlphonse de Châteaubriant Procès posthume d'un visionnaire https://books.google.com/books?id=j5HBpltpQkUC&pg=PA4 1987 Nouvelles Editions Latines 978-2-7233-0334-7 4
References
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External links
"100 years on: The best books of 1911", Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman, 24 December 2011
Popular Books of 1911 at Goodreads
Published 1911 Books at Goodreads
1911 Books at Goodreads