1880 in literature

none February 2013 1880 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880. Events right|thumb|alt=Title page of the first volume of the resurrected journal (February–June 1883)|Title page of the first volume of the resurrected journal Science (February–June 1883) February – The journal Science is first published in the United States, with financial backing from Thomas Edison. 7 February 1947 Thomas A. Edison and the Founding of Science: 1880 Science 105 2719 142–148 10.1126/science.105.2719.142 17813458 1947Sci...105..142. April – Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of six Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, "Boule de Suif", which launches his career.M. Paul Holsinger Mary Anne Schofield Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=GqTvgc_VZTkC&pg=PA192 1992 Popular Press 978-0-87972-556-3 192 April 20 (O. S.: April 8) – At the Romanian Academy, Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet, adopted by a commission also comprising George Bariț and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.Urziceanu Florentina Titu Maiorescu 1840–1917. Bio-bibliografie selectivă Aman County Library Craiova 2005 12 The rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists".Ivașcu George George Ivașcu Cioculescu Șerban Șerban Cioculescu Papadima Ovidiu Ovidiu Papadima Piru Alexandru Alexandru Piru Istoria literaturii române. III: Epoca marilor clasici Editura Academiei Bucharest 1973 95–99, 129 Titu Maiorescu May – In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company.Henry James The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=zWNKDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA207 15 October 2016 U of Nebraska Press 978-0-8032-8827-0 207 June 6 – Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow. October – Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady begins serial publication in Macmillan's Magazine (U.K.) and The Atlantic Monthly (U.S.) December 15 – First performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands) at the Gaiety Theatre, London.English first performances http://www.ibsen.net/index.gan?id=90071&subid=0 Ibsen.net 2004-05-12 2013-02-08 New books Fiction Henry Adams (anonymously) – Democracy: An American Novel Rhoda Broughton – Second Thoughts Wilkie Collins – Jezebel's Daughter Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield – Endymion Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov (99Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy) Amelia Edwards – Lord Brackenbury Theodor Fontane Grete Minde Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg George Gissing – Workers in the Dawn Walter T. Gray (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) – A Bad Boy's Diary Percy Greg – Across the Zodiac Anna Katharine Green – A Strange Disappearance Thomas Hardy – The Trumpet-Major Henry Kendall – Songs from the Mountains Alexander Kielland – Garman og Worse Pierre Loti – Le Mariage de Loti (as Rarahu) Ouida – Moths Louisa Parr – Adam and Eve Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin – The Golovlyov Family (Господа Головлёвы, Gospoda Golovlyovy) Anthony Trollope – The Duke's Children Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad Giovanni Verga – Vita dei campi (The Life of the Fields, short stories, including "Cavalleria rusticana" – "Rustic chivalry") Lew Wallace – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Émile Zola – Nana Children and young people Evelyn Everett-Green (as H.F E.) – Tom Tempest's Victory Johanna Spyri – Heidi Jules Verne – The Steam House (La Maison à vapeur) Drama Adolphe L'Arronge – The Lonei Household (Haus Lonei) Augustus Harris and Paul Meritt – The World Oscar Wilde – Vera; or, The Nihilists (privately printed) Poetry Anne Evans (died 1870) – Poems and Music (with a memorial preface by Anne Isabella Thackeray) Non-fiction Henry Charlton Bastian – The Brain as an Organ of Mind James Legge – The Religions of China Algernon Charles Swinburne – A Study of Shakespeare Charles Warren – The Temple or the Tomb. Giving further evidence in favour of the authenticity of the present site of the Holy Sepulchre Births February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952) February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimké, African-American playwright and poet (died 1958) March 1 – Lytton Strachey, English critic and biographer (died 1932)S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006 March 4 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (died 1946) March 13 – Frank Thiess, German writer (died 1977) March 21 – E. H. Young, English novelist (died 1949) March 30 – Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist (died 1964)Sean O'Casey - Irish dramatist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sean-OCasey Encyclopedia Britannica 7 July 2017 en June 10 – Margit Kaffka, Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1918) June 17 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer (died 1964) White Edward The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 978-0-374-20157-9 June 27 – Helen Keller, American writer and lecturer (died 1968)The Southern Ties of Helen Keller 2007 Nielsen Kim E. Journal of Southern History 73 4 783–806 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242408791 registration 10.2307/27649568 27649568 March 15, 2016 January 9, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220109211522/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242408791_The_Southern_Ties_of_Helen_Keller live July 4 – Anne Beffort, Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died 1966) July 10 – Greye La Spina, American writer (died 1969) August 5 – Ruth Sawyer, American children's writer and novelist (died 1970) August 15 – Anna Rüling, German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died 1953)The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 Katharina Rowold Routledge 2011 978-1134625840 146 August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and dramatist (died 1918)Annette Becker https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/apollinaire_guillaume/ Apollinaire, Guillaume International Encyclopedia of the First World War September 12 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956)Evans Rod L. Rod L. Evans Ronald Hamowy Ronald Hamowy The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism Mencken, H. L. (1880–1956) https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/libertarianism/n196.xml https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC 2008 Sage; Cato Institute Thousand Oaks, CA 978-1-4129-6580-4 750831024 2008009151 324–325 10.4135/9781412965811.n196 subscription October 4 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and short-story writer (died 1946) Birth Announcement The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist October 7, 1880 October 17 – Vasile Cijevschi, Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died 1931) October 18 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died 1940) November 1 – Grantland Rice, American sports writer (died 1954) November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (died 1942) November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died 1960) November 29 – N. D. Cocea, Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died 1949) December 24 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's author (died 1938)https://books.google.com/books?id=RiqMYuNYlSgC&q=john+gruelle+1880&pg=PA25 Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy Patricia Hall Pelican Publishing 1993 978-0882899084 25–26 September 14, 2018 Deaths January 12 – Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, German author (born 1805)1 Hahn-Hahn, Ida, Countess von 12 819 February 12 – Karl Eduard von Holtei, German poet and dramatist (born 1798) February 17 – James Lenox, American bibliophile (born 1800) April 9 – Louis Edmond Duranty, French novelist and critic (born 1833) April 16 – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, Irish writer and barrister (born 1819) April 18 – Costache Aristia, Wallachian translator, poet, dramatist and actor (born 1800) May 2 – Eunice Hale Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (born 1803) May 5 – Andrei Mocioni, Hungarian-Romanian journalist and literary patron (born 1812) May 6 – Ivan Surikov, Russian poet (born 1841) May 8 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (born 1821)Edmund Gosse (1911) Flaubert, Gustave entry in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 May 30 – James Planché, English dramatist (born 1796) June 7 – Karl Christian Planck, German philosopher (born 1819) July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, American writer and abolitionist (born 1802) July 12 – Tom Taylor, English dramatist and journalist (born 1817) September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (born 1812) December 22 – George Eliot (Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born 1819)Nancy Henry The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot https://books.google.com/books?id=HscXVYCfkNMC&pg=PA13 7 April 2008 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-46968-5 13 Awards Commander, First Class of the Order of St. Olav – Andreas Munch Newdigate Prize – Rennell Rodd, "Raleigh"T. Bose R. N. Colbeck A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres https://books.google.com/books?id=aQetGZ2D3YYC&pg=PA677 1 November 2011 UBC Press 978-0-7748-4481-9 677 References External links Published 1880 Books at Goodreads 1880 Books at Goodreads