1896 in literature

none 1896 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1896. Events thumb|250px|An early poster for The Grand Duke February 11 – While Oscar Wilde is in prison, his play Salome (written in 1891) is premièred in its original French by Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre company in Paris, perhaps at the Comédie-Parisienne.Peter Raby Introduction xiii The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Oxford University Press Worlds Classics 2008Bristow Joseph 2009 96, 106, 193 Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend Athens, Ohio Ohio University Press 978-0-8214-1837-6 March – Stephanus Jacobus du Toit's Die Koningin van Skeba, the first Afrikaans language novel, begins serialization in Ons Klyntji.JSem https://books.google.com/books?id=XUALAQAAMAAJ 2004 Southern African Society for Semitics 110 March 3 – Publication begins of the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, Der Eigene, by Adolf Brand in Berlin.Andrew Webber The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin https://books.google.com/books?id=gTv2DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 9 March 2017 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06200-9 188 March 7 – Gilbert & Sullivan's last operetta The Grand Duke is premièred in London at the Savoy Theatre.David Eden Meinhard Saremba The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan https://books.google.com/books?id=AIpv_pcKuNcC&pg=PA28 6 August 2009 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88849-3 28 July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).Guy Willoughby Art and Christhood: The Aesthetics of Oscar Wilde https://books.google.com/books?id=gdHvLJyOqhUC&pg=PA156 1993 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3477-6 156 October 10 – The New York Times publishes its first book review section, which evolves to become The New York Times Book Review.The New York Times, October 10, 1896. Inaugural book review issue (announced on page 4, column 1) October 17 – Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull (Чайка, Chayka) is unsuccessfully premièred at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg (Russia). November – The British magazine The Lady's Realm is first published, edited by William Henry Wilkins. December – Frank Munsey's The Argosy publishes its first all adult fiction issue, pioneering the pulp magazine genre in the United States.Jason Ray Carney Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft https://books.google.com/books?id=g7ylDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 25 July 2019 McFarland 978-1-4766-3614-6 55 December 5 – Connemara Public Library opens in Madras. December 10 – Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi (first published this Spring in Le Livre d'art) is premièred by the Théâtre de l'Œuvre in Paris. The opening word, "Merdre!", triggers disturbances and the play is not performed again in the author's lifetime. unknown dates The final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West is published. Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt of Queen's College, Oxford, begin excavation at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt and discover the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. The English twins Agnes S. Lewis and Margaret D. Gibson bring the treasures of the Cairo Geniza to the attention of Western scholars,Adina Hoffman Adina Hoffman Peter Cole Peter Cole Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza Schocken Books 2011 3 978-0-8052-4258-4 notably the first Hebrew-language text of the book of Ecclesiastes known in modern times. The Publishers Association is established in the United Kingdom as a trade association.The Publishers Association 1896-1946 https://archive.org/details/publishersassoci0000king registration R. J. L. Kingsford Cambridge University Press 1970 The Cheltenham typeface is designed by architect Bertram Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball, director of the Cheltenham Press in New York. New books Fiction Herman Bang – Ludvigsbakke Max Beerbohm – The Works of Max Beerbohm René Boylesve – Le Médecin des dames de NéansThe North American Review https://books.google.com/books?id=aUEZAAAAMAAJ 1923 University of Northern Iowa 402 Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Lady of Quality Abraham Cahan – Yekl: A Tale of the New York GhettoJack Salzman Cameron Bardrick The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=NbCiMBpAwp0C&pg=PA40 29 August 1986 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-30703-1 40 Hall Caine – Jan the Icelander or Home, Sweet Home, A Lecture Story Joseph Conrad – An Outcast of the IslandsSoak Koon Wong Conrad's Eastern Novels: Cases of Intercultural Encounters https://books.google.com/books?id=4-1IAQAAMAAJ 1986 University of California, Berkeley 61 Marie Corelli The Mighty Atom The Murder of Delicia Ziska Machado de Assis – Várias histórias (short story collection) Isabelle Eberhardt as Nicolas Podolinsky – "Per fas et nefas" (short story) Edouard Estaunie – L'Empreinte Jane Findlater – The Green Graves of Balgowrie Antonio Fogazzaro – The Patriot Theodor Fontane – Effi Briest (in book form) Küpper Joachim The Cultural Net : Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm De Gruyter Berlin Boston 2018 9783110536638 106 Harold Frederic – The Damnation of Theron Ware Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – Madelon Jules Girardin – Les aventures de M. Colin-Tampon Karl Adolph Gjellerup – Møllen (The Mill) Higuchi Ichiyō (樋口 一葉) – Takekurabe (Comparing Heights, translated as Child's Play) Barlow Tani Formations of colonial modernity in East Asia Duke University Press Durham 1997 9780822319436 242 W. W. Jacobs – Many Cargoes (short stories) Henry James – The Figure in the Carpet Sarah Orne Jewett – The Country of the Pointed Firs Olha Kobylianska – Arystokratka "The Lord Commissioner" (John McCoy) – A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth Pierre Louÿs – Aphrodite: mœurs antiques William Morris – The Well at the World's End Arthur Morrison – A Child of the Jago Bolesław Prus – Pharaoh (Faraon; serialization concludes) Antal Stašek – Blouznivci našich hor Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894) – Weir of Hermiston (unfinished) Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer, Detective Paul Valéry – La Soirée avec M. Teste Jules Verne Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau)Jennifer Speake Jennifer Speake Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index https://books.google.com/books?id=lCUz-XMay4oC&pg=PA1243 2003 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-440-5 1243 Clovis Dardentor Mary Augusta Ward – Sir George Tressady H. G. Wells – The Island of Doctor Moreau Wells H. G. The island of Doctor Moreau : a critical text of the 1896 London first edition, with an introduction and appendices McFarland Jefferson, N.C 1996 9780786401239 55 Owen Wister – Red Men and White Émile Zola – Rome Children and young people R. D. Blackmore – Tales from the Telling House Christabel R. Coleridge – Minstrel Dick. A Tale of the XIVth Century Mary Catherine Judd – Classic Myths K. Langloh Parker – Australian Legendary Tales Drama George Ade – Artie Anton Chekhov – The Seagull Georges Feydeau – Le Dindon Henrik Ibsen – John Gabriel Borkman Alfred Jarry – Ubu Roi Maurice Maeterlinck – Aglavaine et SélysetteHorst Frenz Literature, 1901-1967 World Scientific 1999 110 Poetry Hilaire Belloc The Bad Child's Book of Beasts Knowles Elizabeth The Oxford dictionary of quotations Oxford University Press Oxford New York 1999 9780198601739 63 Verses and Sonnets Richard Dehmel – Weib und Welt Paul Laurence Dunbar – Lyrics of Lowly Life, Majors and Minors and "We Wear the Mask" A. E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894) – Songs of Travel, and Other VersesRobert Louis Stevenson Songs Of Travel And Other Verses https://books.google.com/books?id=8CMXyAEACAAJ 2 August 2019 Independently Published 978-1-08-607518-2 See also 1896 in poetry Non-fiction Lewis Richard Farnell – The Cults of the Greek States Edward Ernest Green – The Coccidae of Ceylon Theodor Herzl – Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) George Holyoake – The Origin and Nature of Secularism MacGibbon and Ross - The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland Charles Monroe Sheldon – In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?''' Charles Dudley Warner – A Library of the World's Best LiteratureAndrew Dickson White – A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomBirths January 7 – Arnold Ridley, English dramatist and actor (died 1984) Emden Richard Famous, 1914-1918 Pen & Sword Military Barnsley 2009 9781848841970 63 January 9 – Eleanor Graham, English children's writer and editor (died 1984) January 12 – Nobuko Yoshiya, Japanese romantic novelist (died 1973) January 14 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (died 1970)Jay Parini The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA394 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-515653-9 394 January 21 – Guy Gilpatric, American short story writer (suicide 1950) February 12 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and publisher (died 1997) February 18 – André Breton, French Surrealist poet and author (died 1966)André Breton André Breton: Selections https://books.google.com/books?id=nLQRXzQ4NgoC&pg=PA165 October 2003 University of California Press 978-0-520-23954-8 165 March 1 – Moriz Seeler, German writer, poet, film producer and man of the theatre (died 1942) March 10 – Nancy Cunard, English patron of the arts (died 1965) March 22 – Sigge Stark, born Signe Petersén, Swedish writer (died 1964)Leffler Yvonne Signe Björnberg (Sigge Stark) https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/SigneBjornbergSiggeStark Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon 13 June 2021 Swedish 8 March 2018 live https://web.archive.org/web/20190731154953/https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/SigneBjornbergSiggeStark 2019-07-31 April 16 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and essayist (died 1963)Marius Hentea, TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2014. 1090828679 Pages 1-2 April 23 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright (died 1967) May 1 – Mihai Ralea, Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (died 1964) May 3 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and dramatist (died 1990) May 9 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, playwright and novelist (died 1974) May 27 – Joanna Cannan, English writer of children's pony books and detective novels (died 1961) June 6 – R. C. Sherriff, English dramatist (died 1975)Frank Northen Magill Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z https://books.google.com/books?id=JrA5AAAAMAAJ 1985 Salem Press 978-0-89356-380-6 1784 June 18 – Philip Barry, American playwright (died 1949) Demastes William American playwrights, 1880-1945 : a research and production sourcebook Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 1995 9780313286384 29 July 4 – Mao Dun, Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (died 1981)McDougall Bonnie S. December 1998 Disappearing women and disappearing men in may fourth narrative: a post-feminist survey of short stories by Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Ling Shuhua and Shen Congwen http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357829808713209 Asian Studies Review 22 4 427–458 10.1080/10357829808713209 1035-7823 subscription July 19 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (died 1981)The Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=WBNZAAAAYAAJ 1999 Grolier Incorporated 978-0-7172-0131-0 240 July 25 – Josephine Tey, Scottish crime writer (died 1952)Jennifer Morag Henderson Josephine Tey: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=7nf3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46 17 March 2016 Sandstone Press Ltd 978-1-910124-71-0 46 August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese poet (died 1933) August 28 – Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist and short-story writer (died 1984) September 4 – Antonin Artaud, French theatre director (died 1948)Antonin Artaud Artaud Anthology. City Lights Publishers 1965 83 September 5 – Heimito von Doderer, Austrian author (died 1966) September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli poet writing in Yiddish and Hebrew (died 1981)https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DB1738F933A25756C0A967948260 The New York Times Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet 10 May 1981 September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (died 1940) Fitzgerald F The beautiful and damned Oxford University Press Oxford New York 1998 9780191611056 xxxii October 11 – Roman Jakobson, Russian linguistic theorist (died 1982) October 22 – José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese playwright and film director (died 1967) October 30 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (died 1985) November 1 – Lawrence Riley, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1974)"Lawrence Riley, 78, Wrote '35 Stage Hit" NY Times obituary. November 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English literary editor (died 1967) December 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian novelist (died 1957)Bernard A. Cook Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia Garland 2001 9780815340584 766 December 27 – Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1977)Hans Wagener Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame Camden House 1995 9781571130648 ix December – Sandu Tudor, Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (died 1962)unknown date'' – Edith Ditmas, English archivist, historian and writer (died 1986) Deaths January 6 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author, journalist (born 1835)Death of Col. Thomas W. Knox; The Lotos Club's Ex-Secretary Passes Away Suddenly New York Times January 7, 1896 16 https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E5D7153EE333A25754C0A9679C94679ED7CF January 8 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (born 1844)John Flower Historical Dictionary of French Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA519 17 January 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7945-4 519 January 17 – Lady Llanover, Welsh writer and patron of the arts (born 1802)Anya Laurence Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900 New York Richards Rosen Press 1978 91 252454075 January 20 – Graciano López Jaena, Filipino journalist, writer and patriot (born 1856)Yoder, Robert L. (August 7, 1999). Graciano López Jaena. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna. February 26 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist, poet and man of letters (born 1815) Houssaye, Arsène 13 827–828; end of first para He died on the 26th of February 1896 March 21 – Elizabeth Otis Dannelly, American poet (born 1838) March 22 – Ludwig Laistner, German novelist, mythologist and literary historian (born 1845)13 422 423 Laistner, Ludwig Eduard Theiner May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner, American novelist and poet (born 1855) May 13 – Nora Perry, American poet, journalist and children's author (born 1831) June 8 – Jules Simon, French philosopher (born 1814) June 22 – Sir Augustus Harris, French-born English dramatist and theater manager (born 1852)Manager Harris Dead The New York Times 23 June 1896 21 August 2009 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/06/23/104158267.pdf PDF July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist (born 1811)John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes American National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=cOspAQAAMAAJ 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512799-7 906 July 11 – Ernst Curtius, German historian (born 1814)Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society https://books.google.com/books?id=pT1FAQAAMAAJ 1897 The Society xxii July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and founder of Prix Goncourt (born 1822)Frank Northen Magill Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series https://books.google.com/books?id=sTdUnu3AH2oC 1984 Salem Press 978-0-89356-371-4 709 July 23 – Mary Dickens, English memoirist, editor and novelist (born 1838) August 17 – Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), American essayist (born 1833) September 23 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (born 1813) Aasen, Ivar 01 Gosse Edmund William Edmund William Gosse 4–5; see page 5 He died in Christiania on the 23rd of September 1896 October 3 – William Morris, English poet, novelist and designer (born 1834)Derek W. Baker The Flowers of William Morris https://books.google.com/books?id=wx7rAAAAMAAJ 1996 Chicago Review Press 978-1-55652-307-6 9 October 8 – George du Maurier, English cartoonist and novelist (born 1834)T. Martin Wood George Du Maurier: The Satirist of the Victorians https://books.google.com/books?id=UNpyUDGGueIC&pg=PT132 1954 Library of Alexandria 978-1-4655-6655-3 132 November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (born 1872)Melek Ortabasi Rebecca L. Copeland The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan New York Columbia University Press 2006 131 978-0-23113-775-1 November 26 Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet (born 1841)Nineteenth Century Prose https://books.google.com/books?id=B66LkvKhshUC&pg=PA54 1997 Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy 54 Coventry Patmore, English poet (born 1823)Alfred Henry Miles Charles Kingsley to James Thomson https://books.google.com/books?id=wWVHAQAAMAAJ 1898 132–134 December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish founder of the Nobel prizes (born 1833)The Georgia Review https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC 1995 University of Georgia 12 References 30em External links Best Books 1896 at Goodreads Published 1896 Books at Goodreads 1896 Books at Goodreads