1886 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1886.

Events[]

  • January – MLN: Modern Language Notes, an academic journal, introduces European literary criticism into American scholarship. It is founded at Johns Hopkins University.
  • January 5 and January 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months.
  • January 17 – The Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Somerville and Ross first meet, at Castletownshend, County Cork, Ireland.
  • February – A list of 100 books considered "necessary for a liberal education", comiled by John Lubbock, is published.[1]
  • February 22 – The first performance of William Gillette's American Civil War drama Held by the Enemy is held at the Criterion Theater, Brooklyn, New York.
  • April 10 – Anatole Baju begins publication of the magazine Le Décadent in Paris, in an effort to define and organize the Decadent movement.
  • May–July – Robert Louis Stevenson's Scottish historical novel Kidnapped is serialized in the London magazine Young Folks.
  • May 7 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts, written and printed in Italy in 1819), is first played privately in England, sponsored by the Shelley Society, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, before an audience that includes Robert Browning (for whose birthday it is held), George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde's review of it in Dramatic Review appears on May 15.[2]
  • September 9 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is signed.
  • September 18 – The "Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is placed in the French newspaper Le Figaro by a Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who calls Symbolism hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and intended to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal."
  • Fall – Clifford Barnes is taken on as a clerk at the Manhattan book store Arthur Hinds & Co., which will become Barnes & Noble.[3]
  • November – Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills begin to appear in the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette under the British Raj.
  • May 15 – Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published. She is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". After publication of a first collection of her verse in 1890, she will be seen with Walt Whitman as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets.
  • unknown dates
    • A Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's play Hamlet as Hamuretto Yamato Nishiki-e is serialized in the newspaper Tokyo Eiri Shimbun.[4]
    • The first English language translation of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1856), made by Eleanor Marx, is published by Henry Vizetelly in London.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Non-fiction[]

  • Edwin Abbott Abbott – The Kernel and the Husk
  • Marian Alford – Needlework as Art
  • Edward Wilmot Blyden – Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
  • Edward Dowden – The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Warren Felt Evans – Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics
  • William Morris – A Dream of John Ball
  • Emily Ruete – Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography[6]
  • Charles Taze Russell – The Plan of the Ages (later The Divine Plan of the Ages, vol. 1 of Millennial Dawn, later Studies in the Scriptures)
  • A. E. Waite – The Mysteries of Magic

Births[]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Philip Waller (2008). Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918. Oxford University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19-954120-1.
  2. ^ "Reviews".
  3. ^ Turner, Betty N. (2006). The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies. iUniverse. p. 65. ISBN 9780595374786.
  4. ^ Collins, Paul (2009). The Book of William. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-59691-195-6.
  5. ^ Benedetti, Jean. (1999). Stanislavski: His Life and Art. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-52520-1.
  6. ^ "Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography". World Digital Library. 1888. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  7. ^ Charles Dudley Warner (2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII. Cosimo, Incorporated. p. 547.
  8. ^ Verne, Jules (2017). Robur the conqueror. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. p. xii. ISBN 9780819577283.
  9. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Taylor, Henry (1800-1886)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  10. ^ Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 528. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8.
  11. ^ Dickinson, Emily (1995). Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780472105861.
  12. ^ Gwilym Thomas Jones (1959). "Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  13. ^ Mary A. DeCredico (1 June 1996). Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-4616-3916-9.
  14. ^ Savonarola, Newdigate Prize Poem, Recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford, 30 June 1886, by R. L. Gales.
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