1898 in literature

none 1898 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1898. Events right vertical 220 J'accuse.jpg J'Accuse...!: the first page of Zola's letter Krakowskie.Zycie.1898.jpg Edition of the Polish Życie reporting on Zola's letter and the Dreyfus affair January 13 – Émile Zola's open letter to Félix Faure, President of France, on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse...!, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore. On February 23, Zola is convicted of criminal libel in connection with J'Accuse...!. Following the dismissal of his appeal, Zola flees to London (arriving on July 19) to escape imprisonment. In August, he begins writing his novel Fécondité in the suburbs. February 5–June 18 – M. P. Shiel's "Yellow Peril" novel The Empress of the Earth, written around contemporary events in China, appears in the Pearson weekly Short Stories (London) and in book form in July as The Yellow Danger; it is frequently reprinted. February 25 – Première of Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit (Erdgeist), first of his Lulu plays, in Leipzig, in a production by Carl Heine, with Wedekind himself in the role of Dr. Schön. March 25 – O. Henry is imprisoned in Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, for embezzlement. May 28 – Max Beerbohm succeeds George Bernard Shaw as theater critic of The Saturday Review (London);Oscar Levant The Unimportance of Being Oscar Pocket Books 1969 1968 49 0-671-77104-3 Shaw introduces him as "The Incomparable Max". June – First appearance of E. W. Hornung's fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in the story "The Ides of March" in Cassell's Magazine (London).http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_raffles.htm Raffles: The Gentleman Thief Richard Bleiler Strand Magazine 2014-07-25 2014-02-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20140228142406/http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_raffles.htm dead December 2 – Moscow Art Theatre's first season opens with a double bill of Emilia Matthai's Greta's Happiness and Carlo Goldoni's The Mistress of the Inn. The successful and influential Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull by Chekhov (its Moscow première), would open on 29 December 1898.Benedetti Jean 1999 Stanislavski: His Life and Art Revised London Methuen 0-413-52520-1 unknown dates Peadar Ua Laoghaire's story ga Séadna begins serialisation in Ireland as the first Irish language novel (published in book form 1904).Welch Robert Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature Oxford University Press 0-19-280080-9 1996 Gerald Duckworth establishes the publishers Gerald Duckworth and Company in London. Henry James's novella In the Cage is among their first year's output. English designer C. R. Ashbee begins book production at the Essex House Press.Oscar Lovell Triggs The Arts & Crafts Movement https://books.google.com/books?id=j8mjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190 10 May 2014 Parkstone International 978-1-78310-383-6 190 Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary begins publication. The "Generation of '98" writers and thinkers are active in Spain. The term "Young Poland" is coined after a manifesto by Artur Górski, published in the Kraków newspaper Życie ("Life"), to signify the period of modernism in the Polish arts.Piotr S. Wandycz The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=9dUHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA372 1 February 1975 University of Washington Press 978-0-295-80361-6 372 New books Fiction Txomin Agirre – Aunamendiko Lorea Leonid Andreyev – "Bargamot and Garaska" (Баргамот и Гараська, short story) Elizabeth von Arnim – Elizabeth and Her German Garden F. W. Bain – A Digit of the Moon L. Frank Baum – By the Candelabra's Glare Arnold Bennett – A Man from the North Vicente Blasco Ibáñez – The Shack (La barraca) Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Rough Justice N. D. Cocea – Poet-Poetă Ralph Connor – Black Rock Joseph Conrad – Tales of Unrest Alexander Craig – Ionia Stephen Crane The Monster and Other Stories The Open Boat and Other Tales Stephanus Jacobus du Toit – Die Koningin van Skeba Paul Laurence Dunbar Folks From Dixie (short stories) The Uncalled Finley Peter Dunne – Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War John Fox, Jr. – The Kentuckians Ángel Ganivet – Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid Maurice Hewlett – Forest LoversQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 Anthony Hope – Rupert of Hentzau Joris-Karl Huysmans – La Cathédrale Henry James – The Turn of the Screw (novella in The Two Magics) Olha Kobylianska – Valse melancolique Jerome K. Jerome – The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow John Luther Long – "Madame Butterfly" Pierre Louÿs – The Woman and the Puppet (La Femme et le pantin) Charles Major – When Knighthood Was in Flower George Moore – Evelyn Innes Władysław Reymont – The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana; serialization completed) Morgan Robertson – Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan Garrett P. Serviss – Edison's Conquest of Mars (serialization) Italo Svevo – Senilità (As a Man Grows Older) Mary Augusta Ward – Helbeck of Bannisdale Theodore Watts-Dunton – Aylwin H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds (book publication) Edward Noyes Westcott – David Harum Owen Wister – Lin McLean Charlotte Mary Yonge – The Armourer's Prentices Émile Zola – Paris Children and young people J. Meade Falkner – Moonfleet Kenneth Grahame – Dream Days (dated 1899) Emilio Salgari – Il Corsaro Nero (The Black Corsair – first in the Black Corsair series of five books) Ernest Thompson Seton – Wild Animals I Have Known Jules Verne – The Mighty Orinoco (Le Superbe Orénoque) Drama Gabriele D'Annunzio Città Morta La Gioconda Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno R. C. Carton – Lord and Lady Algy José Echegaray – La duda (The Calum) Clyde Fitch – Nathan Hale John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Craigie) – The Ambassador Arthur Wing Pinero – Trelawny of the 'Wells' George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man Iosif Vulcan – Soare cu ploaie (Sunshower) Poetry Thomas Hardy – Wessex Poems and Other Verses Oscar Wilde (originally as "C.3.3") – The Ballad of Reading Gaol Non-fiction Catherine Isabella Dodd – Introduction to the Herbartian Principles of Teaching Ebenezer Howard – To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform Fred T. Jane – Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships Sidney Lee – A Life of William Shakespeare Liliʻuokalani – Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Thérèse of Lisieux (died 1897) – The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une âme) Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – The Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage A. E. Waite – The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts Births February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson, African-American modernist poet (died 1966) February 10 Bertolt Brecht, German playwright and poet (died 1956) Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (died 1979)Bettina Liebowitz Knapp French novelists speak out Whitston Publishing Company 1976 9780878750849 65 February 14 – Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet (died 1959) March 12 – Tian Han, Chinese dramatist (died 1968) April 8 – Maurice Bowra, English poet and humorist (died 1971)Maurice Bowra: A Celebration Duckworth 1974 22 May 18 – Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (died 1973)Necat Birinci Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel: Inceleme-Seçmeler Cağaloğlu Boğaziçi yayınları 1993 Turkish 978-9-75451-102-4 13 May 19 – Julius Evola, Italian esotericist, journalist and philosopher (died 1974) May 23 – Scott O'Dell, American children's author (died 1989) https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D91730F934A25753C1A96F948260 October 17, 1989 2008-04-10 Scott O'Dell, a Children's Author Of Historical Fiction, Dies at 91 The New York Times Edwin McDowell June 9 – Curzio Malaparte, Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist (died 1957) June 23 – Winifred Holtby, English novelist and journalist (died 1935)Winifred Holtby Hull History Centre https://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/research/research-guides/winifred-holtby.aspx www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk 5 December 2024 July 8 – Alec Waugh, English novelist (died 1981) July 9 – Gerard Walschap, Belgian writer (died 1989)Writing in Holland and Flanders Foundation for the Promotion of the Translation of Dutch Literary Works 1970 52 July 22 Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet and short-story writer (died 1943)Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors Salem Press 1958 96 Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (died 1970)https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/26/archives/erich-maria-remarque-is-dead-novels-recorded-agony-of-war-erich.html Erich Maria Remarque Is Dead; Novels Recorded Agony of War The New York Times Sep 26, 1970 August 23 – George Papashvily, Georgian-American sculptor and author (died 1978) August 28 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist (died 1989) September 13 – Arthur J. Burks, American writer (died 1974) September 15 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (died 1936) September 16 – H. A. Rey, German-born American children's writer and illustrator (died 1977) October 9 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (died 1987) October 17 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (died 1971) November 14 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-born French poet, playwright and critic (died 1944) November 25 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (died 1971)https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2016/nov/17/2946/debaki-bose-mdash-the-first-internationally-honoured-indian-filmmaker https://web.archive.org/web/20180228163342/https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2016/nov/17/2946/debaki-bose-mdash-the-first-internationally-honoured-indian-filmmaker live 28 February 2018 Debaki Bose — The first internationally honoured Indian filmmaker Pandya Sonal Cinestaan 2018-02-27 November 29 – C. S. Lewis, English novelist and children's writer (died 1963)James T. Como Remembering C.S. Lewis: Recollections of Those who Knew Him https://books.google.com/books?id=7YtHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42 1 January 2005 Ignatius Press 978-1-68149-406-7 42 December 27 – W. C. Sellar, English humorous writer (died 1951) December 30 – Claire Huchet Bishop, Swiss children's author (died 1993)Claire Huchet Bishop Deaths January 14 – Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), English scholar and children's writer (born 1832)Charles C. Lovett In Memoriam, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898: Obituaries of Lewis Carroll and Related Pieces https://books.google.com/books?id=HKMaAQAAMAAJ 1998 Lewis Carroll Society of North America 978-0-930326-12-8 160 January 18 – Henry Liddell, English lexicographer of Greek (born 1811) March 6 – Felice Cavallotti, Italian poet, playwright and politician (born 1842) March 24 – George Thomas Stokes, Irish church historian (born 1843) March 25 – James Payn, English novelist (born 1830) March 31 – Eleanor Marx, English political writer and translator (born 1855) May 22 – Edward Bellamy, American novelist (born 1850) July 14 – Eliza Lynn Linton, English novelist and journalist (born 1822) July 20 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist (born 1820) August 7 – Georg Ebers, German novelist and Egyptologist (born 1837) August 17 – Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet, English politician, author and book collector (born 1826) September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French Symbolist poet (born 1842) September 20 – Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet (born 1819) September 29 – William Kingsford, English-born Canadian historian (born 1819) November 29 – Ángel Ganivet, Spanish writer (born 1865; suicide by drowning) December 10 – William Black, Scottish novelist (born 1841) Awards Newdigate prize – John Buchan References 30em External links Best Books 1898 at Goodreads Published 1898 Books at Goodreads 1898 Books at Goodreads