1889 in literature

none 1889 literature poetry December 2024 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1889. Events thumb|1st ed. January – H. G. Wells begins to teach science at Henley House School, north London, where his pupils include A. A. Milne, whose father John Vine Milne runs the school.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aamilne.htm A. A. Milne Books and Writers Petri Liukkonen Kuusankoski Public Library Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20140222205524/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aamilne.htm 2014-02-22 deadThwaite, Ann. A.A. Milne: His Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. 0571138888 p. 8 February 12 – Henrik Ibsen's symbolic drama The Lady from the Sea (1888) receives simultaneous first performances in Oslo (in Norwegian) and Weimar (in German). March 14 – August Strindberg's naturalistic drama Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), 1888, is first performed, by the Scandinavian Experimental Theater at the University of Copenhagen. His wife Siri von Essen plays the title rôle. April 24 – The Garrick Theatre in London, financed by playwright W. S. Gilbert, opens with a performance of Pinero's The Profligate.Frederic Boase Modern English Biography... Netherton and Worth 1897 1051 May 30 – The English publisher Henry Vizetelly is prosecuted for obscenity for the second time in London; he is again fined and imprisoned for his English translations of Émile Zola's works.Agents of Translation https://archive.org/details/agentstranslatio00milt limited Milton, John Bandi, Paul Fadio John Benjamins 2009 99 June – Algernon Methuen begins publishing books in England, which is the origin of Methuen Publishing. August 30 – Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are entertained together at dinner at the Langham Hotel, London, by the American Joseph Marshall Stoddart of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, who commissions from them respectively the stories The Sign of the Four and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which appear next year in the magazine. September 3 – Jerome K. Jerome's comic fictional English travelogue set on the River Thames, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), is published in Bristol. November – Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata circulates in clandestine copies. In December the Russian authorities confirm that commercial publication will not be permitted.Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/russian/tolstoycentenary/kreutzersonata/kreutzersonata.html British Library 2014-05-28 2013-10-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20131027054848/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/russian/tolstoycentenary/kreutzersonata/kreutzersonata.html dead September 14 – The Volkstheater, Vienna opens with a performance of Der Fleck auf der Ehr (The Stain on Honour) by its Dramaturg, Ludwig Anzengruber, who dies on December 10 from blood poisoning. November – Marcel Proust begins a year's service in the French army, stationed at Coligny Barracks in Orléans.Cyril Grunspan Marcel Proust. Conceal nothing https://books.google.com/books?id=pCStuQNp9NEC&pg=PA34 2005 Portaparole 978-88-89421-09-3 34– December 12 – Robert Browning's book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published on the same day he dies at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm He is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. unknown dates The first literary novel in the Maltese language, Anton Manwel Caruana's Ineż Farruġ, is published.Susanne Feigenbaum Dennis Kurzon Prepositions in Their Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Context https://books.google.com/books?id=WJ27YRBdHW8C&pg=PA270 1 January 2002 John Benjamins Publishing 90-272-2956-2 270 The first of four volumes of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West is published in the United States.Theodore Roosevelt The Winning of the West https://books.google.com/books?id=9Npzbns2OFUC&pg=PP6 1 January 1995 U of Nebraska Press 0-8032-8955-3 6 New books Fiction Gabriele D'Annunzio – Il piacere (The Pleasure) Herman Bang – Tine (Tina) Paul Bourget – The Disciple (Le Disciple) Anton Chekhov "The Bet" («Пари», Pari, short story) A Dreary Story («Скучная история», Skuchnaya istoriya, novella) "A Nervous Breakdown" («Припадок», Pripadok, short story) Wilkie Collins (died September 23) Blind Love (unfinished) The Legacy of Cain Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett – New Amazonia Marie Corelli – Ardath Arthur Conan Doyle Micah Clarke The Mystery of Cloomber George Gissing – The Nether World H. Rider Haggard – Cleopatra Margaret Harkness (as John Law) – In Darkest LondonMeikle Denis 2002 Jack the Ripper: The Murders and the Movies Richmond, Surrey Reynolds and Hearn Ltd 1-903111-32-3 40 William Dean Howells – A Hazard of New Fortunes Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men in a Boat George A. Moore – Mike Fletcher William Morris – The Roots of the Mountains: Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbors, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms Armando Palacio Valdés – Sister San Sulpicio (La hermana San Sulpicio) Bolesław Prus – The Doll (Lalka; serialization concludes) Molly Elliot Seawell – Hale-Weston Robert Louis Stevenson – The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne – The Wrong Box Hermann Sudermann – The Cats' Bridge (Der Katzensteg) Leo Tolstoy – The Kreutzer Sonata («Крейцерова соната», Kreitzerova Sonata) Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Giovanni Verga – Mastro-don Gesualdo Julius Vogel – Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny Bertha von Suttner – Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) Oscar Wilde – "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." (short story in Blackwood's Magazine, July) Children and young people Lewis Carroll – Sylvie and Bruno Andrew Lang – The Blue Fairy Book Jules Verne – The Purchase of the North Pole (Sans dessus dessous) Drama Anton Chekhov – 1-act plays A Marriage Proposal («Предложение», Predlozheniye) The Wedding («Свадьба», Svadba) Rasmus Effersøe – Gunnar Havreki Lizzie May Elwyn - Sweetbrier; or the Flower Girl of New York Sydney Grundy – A Pair of Spectacles (adapted from Labiche and Delacour's Les Petits Oiseaux) Gerhart Hauptmann – Before Sunrise (Vor Sonnenaufgang) 'Bjarne P. Holmsen' (Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf) – Papa Hamlet Maurice Maeterlinck – Princess Maleine (La Princesse Maleine) Helena Patursson – Veðurføst (Lenten Weather) Hermann Sudermann – Honour (Die Ehre) Leo Tolstoy – The Fruits of Enlightenment («Плоды просвещения», Plody prosveshcheniya) A. C. Torr (Fred Leslie) and Herbert F. Clark – Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué (burlesque) Poetry Herman Gorter – Mei (May) Verner von Heidenstam – Vallfart och vandringsår (Pilgrimage: the Wandering Years) William Butler Yeats – The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (including "Down by the Salley Gardens") Non-fiction Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)F. C. T. Moore Bergson: thinking backwards Cambridge University Press 1996 9780521424028 3 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – The Voice of the Silence Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Positive Theory of Capital Charles Booth – Life and Labour of the People in London (begins publication) Edward Carpenter – Civilization: its Cause and Cure William Temple Hornaday – The Extermination of the American Bison T. H. Huxley – Agnosticism Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Solomonis) Friedrich Nietzsche – Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert (Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer) Papus – Le Tarot des Bohémiens William Mackintire Salter – Ethical Religion Oscar Wilde – "The Decay of Lying" (essay in The Nineteenth Century, January) Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition (completed in 24 main volumes) Births February 8 – Siegfried Kracauer, German-American writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (died 1966)Gertrud Koch Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction Princeton University Press 2000 9781400823642 ix March 1 – Kanoko Okamoto (岡本かの子, Ohnuki Kano), Japanese novelist and poet (died 1939) April 7 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier The Walking Geography of Gabriela Mistral Marjorie Agosín Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler Athens Ohio University Press 2003 270 978-0-89680-230-8 April 18 – Horace Alexander, English current-affairs writer and ornithologist (died 1989) May 12 – Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩), Chinese dramatist (died 1962) June 23 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (died 1966)Анна Андреевна Ахматова Полное Собрание Стихотворений https://books.google.com/books?id=Uw5gAAAAMAAJ 1990 Zephyr Press 978-0-939010-13-4 53 July 5 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (died 1963)Gale Cengage Modern French Poets https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ 2002 Gale Group 978-0-7876-5252-4 154 July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American author (died 1970)John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes American National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=MvEpAQAAMAAJ 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512787-4 703 July 22 - James Whale, English film director (died 1957) August 5 – Conrad Aiken, American novelist and poet (died 1973)Conrad Aiken Malcolm Lowry The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ 1992 ECW Press 978-1-55022-168-8 xi August 12 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (died 1981) August 22 – Peter Frederick Anson, English writer on religion and maritime matters (died 1975) September 1 – Leonora Eyles, English feminist writer and novelist (died 1960) September 15 – Claude McKay, Jamaican American writer (died 1948) September 23 – Walter Lippmann, American writer (died 1974)John R. Shook Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA1483 1 January 2005 A&C Black 978-1-84371-037-0 1483 September 25 G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist, economist and historian (died 1959) C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (died 1930) September 26 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)Joy A. Palmer David E. Cooper David Cooper Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment https://books.google.com/books?id=J7ml-rrcTboC&pg=PA189 11 September 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-75624-7 189 October 18 – Fannie Hurst, American novelist (died 1968) October 27 – Enid Bagnold, English writer and playwright (died 1981) November 12 – DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (died 1981) November 14 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer and intellectual (died 1973)World Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=gYQ-AQAAIAAJ 1954 Institute for Research in Biography 568 December 7 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, critic and playwright (died 1973)Gabriel Marcel Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World https://books.google.com/books?id=z_FcAAAAMAAJ 1998 Marquette University Press 978-0-87462-617-9 213 Deaths thumb|Browning after death. January 3 – James Halliwell-Phillipps, English bibliophile (born 1820) January 17 – Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian writer (born 1832) March 26 – Elizabeth Ayton Godwin, English hymn writer and religious poet (born 1817) April 23 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French novelist (born 1808)Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly The She-devils: (Les Diaboliques) https://books.google.com/books?id=d5JcAAAAMAAJ 1964 Oxford University Press xiv May 28 – Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, American writer, translator (born 1825) June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (born 1844)John Gilroy Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=6-Gtnk7Ho6AC&pg=PA19 2007 Humanities-Ebooks 19 June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (born 1850) August 5 – Fanny Lewald, German novelist (born 1811) August 19 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French Symbolist writer (born 1838)Authors : Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/villiers_de_lisle-adam www.sf-encyclopedia.com 27 March 2019 September 4 – Warren Felt Evans, American author of the New Thought movement (born 1817)Willa Cather Georgine Milmine The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science https://books.google.com/books?id=bfUVPgvoNCkC&pg=PA348 1993 U of Nebraska Press 978-0-8032-1453-8 348 September 10 – Amy Levy, English feminist poet and novelist (suicide, born 1861) September 23 Wilkie Collins, English novelist (born 1824)William Baker Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=YPD_tVuoQM0C&pg=PA69 2002 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-31394-3 69 Eliza Cook, English poet (born 1818) October 25 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (born 1820)Merriam-Webster, Inc MERRIAM-WEBSTER STAFF Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=eKNK1YwHcQ4C&pg=PA85 1995 Merriam-Webster 978-0-87779-042-6 85 November 18 – William Allingham, Irish poet (born 1824)y Allingham, William 1 696 November 20 – August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (born 1826)https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/3105 Ahlqvist, August (1826-1889) kansallisbiografia H. K. Riikonen July 6, 2021 fi December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet (born 1839) December 12 – Robert Browning, English poet (born 1812) December 17 – Thomas Purnell, Welsh-born English drama critic and essayist (born 1834 December 23 – Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (born 1858)William Richard Hughes Charles Lapworth Sir William Augustus Tilden Robert Lewins Constance Naden: A Memoir https://archive.org/details/constancenadena00lewigoog 20 July 2013 1890 Bickers & Son 89–90 December 30 – Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (born 1837)George Călinescu, Ion Creangă; Viața și opera ("Ion Creangă; His Life and Works"), Editura pentru Literatura, Bucharest, 1964, p. 480; Vianu, Vol. II, p. 211, 212 Awards Gaisford Prize – Harold Trevor Baker References 30em Sources Thwaite, Ann. A.A. Milne: His Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. 0571138888 External links Best Books 1889 at Goodreads Published 1889 Books at Goodreads 1889 Books at Goodreads