1894 in literature

none 1894 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1894. Events thumb|upright|alt=painting of nearly-naked your woman posing in elaborate headdress|Illustration for Salome, by Manuel Orazi February – Oscar Wilde's play Salome is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. February 15 – French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. A fictionalised version of the death appears in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent (1907). Early Spring – Mary Antin emigrates from White Russia (Belarus) to the United States with her mother. April – The Yellow Book imprint, edited by Henry Harland, begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head – in London. April 21 – George Bernard Shaw's play Arms and the Man is premièred at the Avenue Theatre in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 May – The Scottish writer William Sharp publishes Pharais, his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. June – The German novelist Hermann Hesse begins an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at a factory in Calw. August 15 – A. E. Waite starts to publish and edit an occult periodical, The Unknown World. October – Lafcadio Hearn begins work as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle in Japan. November 8 – Robert Frost's first poem, "My Butterfly" appears in The New York Independent, which pays him $15. December An abridgement of Stephen Crane's American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage is first published as a serial in The Philadelphia Press. Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "An Alpine Pass on "Ski"" in The Strand Magazine (London), popularizing skiing as a sport in Switzerland.An Alpine Pass on "Ski" http://www.ronwatters.com/ConanDoyleSkiArticle.html The Strand Magazine 8 1894 London 657–661 December 22 – Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'Après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris. unknown dates The U.K. circulating libraries of Mudie's and WHSmith cease to purchase three-volume novels, killing off the format.Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day Greenwood Press Draznin Yaffa Claire 2001 Contributions in Women's Studies Westport, CT 151 0-313-31399-7 J. M. Dent begins in London to publish Temple Shakespeare pocket editions, edited by Israel Gollancz. The Century Roman typeface, first of the Century type family, is cut by American Type Founders' designer Linn Boyd Benton, originally for Theodore Low De Vinne's The Century Magazine. New books Fiction Gabriele D'Annunzio – Il trionfo della morte (The Triumph of Death) Clementina Black – The Agitator Léon Bloy – Disagreeable Tales Mary Elizabeth Braddon – The Christmas Hirelings Walter Browne – 2894 Hall Caine The Mahdi; or Love and Race, A Drama in Story The Manxman Anton Chekhov – "The Student" («Студент», published in Russkiye Vedomosti, April) Kate Chopin Bayou Folk "The Story of an Hour" Ella Hepworth Dixon – The Story of a Modern Woman Arthur Conan Doyle – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (collection) George du Maurier – Trilby (serialization in Harper's Monthly Magazine) Marcellus Emants – Een Nagelaten Bekentenis (A Posthumous Confession) Theodor Fontane – Effi Briest (begins serialization in Deutsche Rundschau) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – Pembroke George Gissing – In the Year of Jubilee Katharine Glasier (as Katharine Conway) – Husband & Brother, a few chapters in a woman's life of to-day H. Rider Haggard – The People of the Mist Knut Hamsun – Pan Thomas Hardy – Life's Little Ironies (collection of short stories)Review: Life's Little Ironies The Spectator 21 April 1894 72 537–539 https://books.google.com/books?id=VwM4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA537 Robert Hichens – The Green CarnationQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 William Dean Howells – A Traveler from Altruria Juhan Liiv – "Vari" ("The Shadow") Arthur Machen – The Great God Pan (in book form, with "The Innermost Light") Ian Maclaren – Beside the Bonnie Brier BushJohn Sutherland John Sutherland (author) Bestsellers: a very short introduction Oxford University Press 2007 978-0-19-921489-1 85 George A. Moore – Esther Waters William Morris – The Wood Beyond the World Gustavus W. Pope – Journey to Mars Bolesław Prus – The New Woman (Emancypantki; book publication) Jules Renard – Poil de carotte (Carrot Head) Solomon Schindler – Young West Stendhal – Lucien Leuwen Hermann Sudermann – The Undying Past (Es war) Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne – The Ebb-Tide Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer Abroad Jules Verne – Captain Antifer Mary Augusta Ward – Marcella H. G. Wells – "The Red Room" Emma Wolf – A Prodigal in Love Israel Zangwill – The Bachelors' Club Émile Zola – Lourdes Children and young people Harold Avery The Orderly Officer The School's Honour R. D. Blackmore – PerlycrossJohn Sutherland 1990 The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction 498 Stanford University Press 0804718423 Anthony Hope The Dolly Dialogues The Prisoner of Zenda Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book E. Nesbit – Miss Mischief Talbot Baines Reed – Tom, Dick and Harry Margaret Marshall Saunders – Beautiful Joe Ethel Turner – Seven Little Australians Drama Wilson Barrett – The Manxman (adapted from Hall Caine's novel) William Gillette – Too Much Johnson (adapted from Maurice Ordonneau's La Plantation Thomassin) Martin Greif – Agnes Bernauer, der Engel von Augsburg Sydney Grundy A Bunch of Violets An Old Jew Henry Arthur Jones – The Case of Rebellious Susan Josef Lauff – Ignez de Castro Maurice Maeterlinck – The Death of Tintagiles (La Mort de Tintagiles, for marionette performance) Marc-André Raffalovich and John Gray – The Blackmailers Victorien Sardou – Gismonda George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man Poetry Bliss Carman – Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics Pierre Louÿs – Songs of Bilitis Rainer Maria Rilke – Leben und Lieder Non-fiction John Bartlett (comp.) – A Complete Concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic Works of Shakespeare Edward Carpenter – Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society Christabel Rose Coleridge – The Daughters Who Have not Revolted (essays) Francis Darwin (with E. H. Acton) – The Practical Physiology of Plants King Gillette – The Human Drift Karl Marx – Das Kapital (vol. 3, published by Friedrich Engels) Leo Tolstoy – The Kingdom of God Is Within You («Царство Божіе внутри васъ», Tsárstvo Bózhiye vnutrí vas) Births January 1 – Aurora Nilsson, Swedish writer (died 1972) January 22 – Charles Langbridge Morgan, English novelist and dramatist (died 1958)The Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=n3ExAQAAIAAJ 1980 Americana Corp 451 9780717201112 February 6 – Eric Partridge, New Zealand/British lexicographer (died 1979)Serle, Geoffrey (1988) 'Partridge, Eric Honeywood (1894–1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press February 28 – Ben Hecht, American playwright and screen writer (died 1964)259157 March 14 – Nichita Smochină, Transnistrian Romanian ethnographer and journalist (died 1980) March 17 – Paul Green, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (died 1981)Roper, John Herbert Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. p. 83. March 23 – Mark Slonim, Russian literary historian and critic (died 1976)it Giuseppina Giuliano, "Mark L'vovič Slonim", Russi in Italia database entry April 6 – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, English children's writer (died 1969)Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894-1969) http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/brentdye.htm Literary Heritage West Midlands Shropshire County Council 31 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20051124012502/http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/brentdye.htm 24 November 2005 28 October 2002 April 7 – A. A. Thomson, English cricket and travel writer (died 1968) May 1 – Elizabeth Johanna Bosman, South African author who wrote under the pen name Marie Linde (d. 1963)De Kock Sita Die Bosmans van Suid-Afrika, 1707-1965 Pretoria Van Schaik 1968 814141210 AF 33 May 27 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French novelist and pamphleteer (died 1961)Merlin Thomas Louis-Ferdinand Céline Faber & Faber 1979 9780811217880 13 Dashiell Hammett, American detective fiction writer (died 1961)Julian Symons Dashiell Hammett Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985 9780805773989 IX June 14 – W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet (died 1966) June 15 – Trygve Gulbranssen, Norwegian novelist, businessman and journalist (died 1962) June 28 – Allardyce Nicoll, British literary scholar (died 1976) July 8 – Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian novelist, journalist and politician (died 1976) July 9 – Phelps Putnam, American poet (died 1948) July 18 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (died 1940) July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and poet (died 1963)Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels Sion Ronald T. 2010 McFarland & Company, Inc. 978-0-7864-4746-6 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=77ithOrxlgMC&pg=PA2 July 30 – Păstorel Teodoreanu, Romanian poet and satirist (died 1964) August 31 – Albert Facey, Australian autobiographer (died 1982) September 2 – Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist September 6 – Howard Pease, American maritime adventure novelist (died 1974) September 19 – Rachel Field, American author and poet (died 1942)Fordyce Rachel Field, Rachel (Lyman) D.L. Kirkpatrick Twentieth-century Children's Writers London Macmillan 1978 978-0-33323-414-3 445 September 23 – Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1938) October 4 – Frans G. Bengtsson, Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer (died 1954) October 9 – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Swedish writer (died 1940) October 14 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (died 1962)Maynard Mack Modern poetry Prentice-Hall 1961 364–5 October 18 – H. L. Davis, American fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and poet (died 1960) October 26 – Eugene Jolas, American writer, literary translator and critic (died 1952) December 8 – James Thurber, American cartoonist and humorous writer (died 1961) December 26 Håkon Evjenth, Norwegian children's writer (died 1951) Jean Toomer (Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer), African American writer (died 1967) December 31 – Hong Shen (洪深), Chinese dramatist (died 1955) Deaths January 7 – Sophia Alice Callahan, American Muscogee novelist and teacher (born 1868) February 8 – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish novelist for youth (born 1825)Rennie Neil Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825–1894) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123 10.1093/ref:odnb/1232 April 8 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali writer and poet (born 1838)Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr registration 1995 Merriam-Webster 978-0-87779-042-6 231 Harriet Anne Scott, Scottish novelist (born 1819)Scott, Harriet Anne April 12 – Ludwig Pfau, German poet, journalist, and revolutionary (born 1821) April 14 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet, literary historian and art collector (born 1815)1 Schack, Adolf Friedrich, Graf von 24 309–310 April 29 – Augusta Theodosia Drane, English religious writer and biographer (born 1823)y Drane, Augusta Theodosia 8 546 May 6 – Fanny Murdaugh Downing, American author and poet (born 1831) May 7 Frances Elizabeth Barrow, American juvenile literature author (born 1822) Marie Sophie Schwartz, Swedish novelist (born 1819) May 19 – Caroline M. Sawyer, American poet, writer, and editor (born 1812) May 20 – Edmund Yates, Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1831)y Yates, Edmund Hodgson 28 907–908 June 5 – Edward Capern, English poet (born 1819)Capern, Edward Thomas Seccombe July 30 – Walter Pater, English essayist, critic and novelist (born 1839) http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21525&back=&version=2004-09 Walter Pater Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/ August 6 – Otto Müller, German novelist (born 1816)52 527 529 Müller, Otto Franz Brümmer ADB:Müller, Otto (Romanschriftsteller) August 10 – Cynthia Roberts Gorton, American poet and author (born 1826)Greasley Philip A. Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination https://books.google.com/books?id=KWCdDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA483 8 August 2016 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-02116-8 483 August 25 – Celia Laighton Thaxter, American author (born 1835) October 8 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, American poet and physician (born 1809) http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21525&back=&version=2004-09 Walter Pater Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/ October 20 – James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist and biographer (born 1818)Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 July 2006 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 0-902-198-84-X https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf 2022-10-04 2013-01-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf dead December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer (born 1850) Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour 25 Gosse Edmund William Edmund William Gosse 907–910 December 9 – Mary Bell Smith, American writer, educator, social reformer (born 1818)Goodwin Jennie J. B. Mary Perkins Blair-Bell Smith In Memoriam of Mary Perkins Blair Bell and Smith, 1818-1894 1– Minneapolis 1899 11047204 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077110187&view=1up&seq=11 December 29 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (born 1830) Rossetti, Christina Georgina 23 Gosse Edmund William Edmund William Gosse 746–747 1 Unknown dates Giuseppe Borrello, Sicilian poet (born 1820) Nabagopal Mitra, Indian playwright, poet and essayist (born c. 1840) Awards Newdigate Prize – Frank TaylorThe Age of Leo the Tenth in Italy. The Newdigate prize poem, 1894 (British Library, Historical Print Editions (March 24, 2011)) References 30em External links Best Books 1894 at Goodreads Published 1894 Books at Goodreads 1894 Books at Goodreads