Overview of the events of 1889 in literature
Overview of the events of 1889 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1889 .
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 runs the school.[1] 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 . 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.[2] 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.[3] 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 .[4] December 12 – Robert Browning 's book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published on the same day he dies at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice .[5] 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.[6] The first of four volumes of Theodore Roosevelt 's The Winning of the West is published in the United States.[7] New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] 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 )[9] 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 )[10] July 5 – Jean Cocteau , French writer (died 1963 )[11] July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American author (died 1970 )[12] July 22 - James Whale , English film director (died 1957) August 5 – Conrad Aiken , American novelist and poet (died 1973 )[13] 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 )[14] September 25 September 26 – Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (died 1976 )[15] October 18 – Fannie Hurst , American novelist (died 1968 ) November 12 – DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest ) (died 1981 ) November 14 – Taha Hussein , Egyptian writer and intellectual (died 1973 )[16] December 7 – Gabriel Marcel , French philosopher, critic and playwright (died 1973 )[17] 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 )[18] May 28 – Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren , American writer, translator (born 1825 ) June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (born 1844 )[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 )[20] September 4 – Warren Felt Evans , American author of the New Thought movement (born 1817 )[21] September 10 – Amy Levy , English feminist poet and novelist (suicide, born 1861 ) September 23 October 25 – Émile Augier , French dramatist (born 1820 )[23] November 18 – William Allingham , Irish poet (born 1824 )[24] November 20 – August Ahlqvist , Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages , author, and literary critic (born 1826 )[25] December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber , Austrian poet (born 1839 ) December 12 – Robert Browning , English poet (born 1812 )[5] December 17 – Thomas Purnell , Welsh-born English drama critic and essayist (born 1834 December 23 – Constance Naden , English poet and philosopher (born 1858 )[26] December 30 – Ion Creangă , Romanian writer (born 1837 )[27] References [ edit ] ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "A. A. Milne" . Books and Writers . Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. ^ Milton, John; Bandi, Paul Fadio, eds. (2009). Agents of Translation . John Benjamins. p. 99 . ^ "Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata" . British Library . Retrieved 2014-05-28 . ^ Cyril Grunspan (2005). Marcel Proust. Conceal nothing . Portaparole. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-88-89421-09-3 . ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6 . ^ Susanne Feigenbaum; Dennis Kurzon (1 January 2002). Prepositions in Their Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Context . John Benjamins Publishing. p. 270. ISBN 90-272-2956-2 . ^ Theodore Roosevelt (1 January 1995). The Winning of the West . U of Nebraska Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-8032-8955-3 . ^ Meikle, Denis (2002). Jack the Ripper: The Murders and the Movies . Richmond, Surrey: Reynolds and Hearn Ltd. p. 40. ISBN 1-903111-32-3 . ^ Gazarian-Gautier, Marie-Lise (2003). "The Walking Geography of Gabriela Mistral". In Agosín, Marjorie (ed.). Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler . Athens: Ohio University Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-89680-230-8 . ^ Анна Андреевна Ахматова (1990). Полное Собрание Стихотворений . Zephyr Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-939010-13-4 . ^ Gale Cengage (2002). Modern French Poets . Gale Group. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-7876-5252-4 . ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography . Oxford University Press. p. 703. ISBN 978-0-19-512787-4 . ^ Conrad Aiken; Malcolm Lowry (1992). The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 . ECW Press. p. xi. ISBN 978-1-55022-168-8 . ^ John R. Shook (1 January 2005). Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers . A&C Black. p. 1483. ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0 . ^ Joy A. Palmer; David E. Cooper; David Cooper (11 September 2002). Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment . Routledge. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-134-75624-7 . ^ World Biography . Institute for Research in Biography. 1954. p. 568. ^ Gabriel Marcel (1998). Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World . Marquette University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-87462-617-9 . ^ Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1964). The She-devils: (Les Diaboliques) . Oxford University Press. p. xiv. ^ John Gilroy (2007). Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems . Humanities-Ebooks. p. 19. ^ "Authors : Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia" . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 27 March 2019 . ^ Willa Cather; Georgine Milmine (1993). The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science . U of Nebraska Press. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-8032-1453-8 . ^ William Baker (2002). Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-313-31394-3 . ^ Merriam-Webster, Inc; MERRIAM-WEBSTER STAFF; Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Merriam-Webster. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6 . ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Allingham, William ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 696. ^ H. K. Riikonen. "Ahlqvist, August (1826-1889)" (in Finnish). kansallisbiografia. Retrieved July 6, 2021 . ^ William Richard Hughes; Charles Lapworth; Sir William Augustus Tilden; Robert Lewins (1890). Constance Naden: A Memoir . Bickers & Son. pp. 89 –90. Retrieved 20 July 2013 . ^ 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