1872 in literature

none 1872 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1872. Events thumb|320px|Illustration to Carmilla by D. H. Friston (The Dark Blue, 1872) March The Federation of Madrid expels Paul Lafargue and all other signatories to an ostensibly subversive article in La Emancipación.Leslie Derfler Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882 https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA134 1991 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-65903-2 134 Serialisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic vampire novella Carmilla ends in the monthly The Dark Blue. Later this year it appears in his collection In a Glass Darkly. Set in the Duchy of Styria, it helps to introduce the lesbian vampire genre.Nina Auerbach Auerbach Nina Our Vampires, Ourselves https://archive.org/details/ourvampiresourse00auer registration University of Chicago Press 1995 0-2260-3202-7 June 15 – Thomas Hardy's second novel (and the first set in Wessex), Under the Greenwood Tree, is published in London (as "by the author of Desperate Remedies"). June 19 – The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire is founded in Strasbourg as the Kaiserliche Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek zu Straßburg, a public regional and academic library for the new German territory of Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen) after destruction of its predecessors in the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War.History of the BNU Strasbourg BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire) http://www.bnu.fr/node/631 2014-01-21 July – Rose la Touche rejects a proposal from John Ruskin for the last time.David B. Elliott Charles Fairfax Murray Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite https://books.google.com/books?id=O5NPAAAAMAAJ 2000 Oak Knoll Press 978-1-58456-030-2 41 July 7 – Paul Verlaine abandons his family for London with Arthur Rimbaud.Lewino Frédéric Dos Santos Gwendoline 2016-07-07 C'est arrivé aujourd'hui. 7 juillet 1872. Verlaine abandonne le domicile conjugal pour rejoindre Rimbaud. Entre sa jeune épouse malade et son amant démoniaque, le cœur du poète ne balance pas longtemps Le Point Paris French http://www.lepoint.fr/c-est-arrive-aujourd-hui/7-juillet-1872-ce-salaud-de-verlaine-abandonne-son-epouse-malade-pour-s-enfuir-avec-rimbaud-06-07-2012-1482294_494.php September 13 (O. S.: September 1) – Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu first attends the literary club Junimea of Iași and reads out his fantasy story Poor Dionis (Sărmanul Dionis). It is poorly received by the Junimists.Lovinescu Eugen Eugen Lovinescu T. Maiorescu și contemporanii lui, I. V. Alecsandri, M. Eminescu, A. D. Xenopol Casa Școalelor Bucharest 1943 25–28, 148–152 935314935 September 30 – George MacDonald arrives in Boston for a lecture tour of the United States.USA Lecture Tour http://georgemacdonald.info/lecture_tour.html The George MacDonald Informational Web 2007 2014-12-18 November (approximate date) – Lafcadio Hearn becomes a reporter on the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer.Ye Giglampz https://books.google.com/books?id=XyYoAQAAMAAJ 1983 Crossroads Books with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County 66 December 3 – Assyriologist George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London. December 22 – Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) finishes serialisation (since November 2) in the daily Le Temps, the day after the concluding date of the narrative. unknown dates Benito Pérez Galdós begins Trafalgar, the first in the series of historical novels known as Episodios Nacionales. The first university course in American Literature is held at Princeton University by John Seely Hart.Kermit Vanderbilt American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession https://books.google.com/books?id=ZE5MevhJL78C&pg=PA85 February 1989 University of Pennsylvania Press 0-8122-1291-6 85 The Scottish Gaelic magazine Féillire first appears as Almanac Gàilig air son 1872 in Inverness.Ferguson Mary Ann Matheson Scottish Gaelic Union Catalogue https://archive.org/details/scottishgaelicun0000ferg registration National Library of Scotland Edinburgh 1984 0902220608 New books Fiction William Harrison Ainsworth – Boscobel Machado de Assis – Ressurreição Mary Elizabeth Braddon – To the Bitter End Rhoda Broughton Good-bye, Sweetheart! Poor Pretty Bobby Samuel Butler – Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Parisians Wilkie Collins – Poor Miss Finch Annie Hall Cudlip – A Passion in Tatters Alphonse Daudet – Tartarin de Tarascon Fyodor Dostoevsky – Demons (Бесы, Bésy) Alexandre Dumas, père – Création et rédemption George Eliot – Middlemarch (serial publication concluded) Mihai Eminescu – Poor Dionis (Sărmanul Dionis) Thomas Hardy – Under the Greenwood Tree Mór Jókai Eppur si muove – És mégis mozog a Föld (And yet the Earth moves) The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember) Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly Willing to Die Nikolai Leskov – The Cathedral Folk (Соборяне, Soboryane) Eliza Lynn Linton – The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist Margaret Oliphant – At His Gates Bayard Taylor – Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home Anthony Trollope – The Golden Lion of Granpere Jules Verne The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe) "Dr. Ox's Experiment" The Fur Country (Le Pays des fourrures) Émile Zola – La Curée Children and young adults R. D. Blackmore – The Maid of Sker Frances Freeling Broderip – Tiny Tadpoles, and Other Tales Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Juliana Horatia Ewing – A Flat Iron for a Farthing George MacDonald – The Princess and the Goblin E. J. Richmond – The Jewelled Serpent Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did (first in the What Katy Did series of five books)Read Series Retrieved 2 September 2016. Ouida – A Dog of Flanders Drama François Coppée – Les Bijoux de la DélivrancePlarr Victor Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries 1895 G. Routledge and Sons, limited 190 https://books.google.com/books?id=OJ4YAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA190 en Franz Grillparzer – The Jewess of Toledo (Die Jüdin von Toledo, first performed posthumously, written 1851) Prosper Mérimée – La Chambre bleue (published posthumously) August Strindberg – Master Olof Ivan Turgenev – A Month in the Country («Месяц в деревне», Mesiats v derevne, first performed)Publications programme note for the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford revival (1994). Poetry José Hernández Athénaïs Michelet Martín Fierro (first part)Arturo Torres-Rioseco New World Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=3fmo4nEk3AIC&pg=PA88 1949 University of California Press 88 Non-fiction William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli, Athénaïs Michelet – Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea Chambers's English Dictionary William Cullen Bryant – Picturesque America, vol. 1William Cullen Bryant Picturesque America: Or, The Land We Live in https://books.google.com/books?id=KKeN2zhsUNEC 1872 D. Appleton and Company John Evans – The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain Warren Felt Evans – Mental Medicine Sophia Jex-Blake – Medical Women: A Thesis and a History Friedrich Nietzsche – The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik) Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah – Scrieri vechi perdute atingetóre de Dacia (Old Lost Writings Relating to Dacia; first installments) Charles Busbridge Snepp – Songs of Grace and Glory Mark Twain – "Roughing It" Henry Wilson – History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, vols. 1 & 2 Births January 31 – Zane Grey, American Western novelist (died 1939) March 31 – Mary Lewis Langworthy, American pageant writer (died 1949) April 4 Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș – Romanian art historian, ethnographer and journalist (died 1952) Frida Uhl – Austrian writer (died 1943) May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (died 1896)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 May 21 (May 9 O.S.) – Teffi, born Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, Russian-born humorist (died 1952) May 31 – W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator (died 1944) June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American poet, novelist and playwright (died 1906) August 24 – Max Beerbohm, English essayist and parodist (died 1956) September 15 – Frances Garnet Wolseley, English horticulturist and garden writer (died 1936) September 22 – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, American fiction writer and poet (died 1958) October 8 – John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh novelist (died 1963) October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American theologian and poet (died 1956) October 18 (October 6 O.S.) – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, novelist and composer (died 1936) October 20 – F. M. Mayor, English novelist (died 1932) November 23 – Eraclie Sterian, Romanian science writer and playwright (died 1948) December 28 – Pío Baroja, Spanish novelist (died 1956)Ricardo Landeira The Modern Spanish Novel, 1898-1936 https://books.google.com/books?id=pI9dAAAAMAAJ 1985 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6603-5 42 Deaths thumb|Franz Grillparzer's tomb January 21 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian poet and dramatist (born 1791) February 6 – Sir Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (born 1792) March 4 – Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (born 1790) March 10 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born 1805) March 11 – Emily Taylor, English author, poet and hymn writer (born 1795) April 1 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (born 1805) April 13 – Samuel Bamford, English essayist and poet (born 1788) April 20 – Ljudevit Gaj, Croatian linguist and journalist (born 1809) May 13 – Moritz Hartmann, German poet (born 1821) May 29 – Frank Key Howard, American journalist and memoirist (born 1826)Howard, F. K. (Frank Key), 1826-1872 http://lccn.loc.gov/n88071162 Library of Congress July 9, 2014 June 1 – Charles Lever, Irish novelist (born 1806) July 25 – Gregorio Gutiérrez González, Colombian poet (born 1826) August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (born 1809) September 11 – Countess Dash, French writer (born 1804) September 18 – Herbert Haines, English historian and Anglican theologian (born 1826) September 22 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (born 1801) October 10 – Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born 1811) October 21 – Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian (born 1794) November 16 – William Gilham, American military writer (born 1818) December 23 – Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (born 1811)Gautier, Théophile 2 536-537 References 30em External links Published 1872 Books at Goodreads 1872 Books at Goodreads