1899 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1899.

Events[]

Moscow Art Theatre production of Uncle Vanya
  • January 21 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt, having taken over management of the Paris theatre she renames the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, opens it in the title rôle of Victorien Sardou's La Tosca. On May 20 she premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, with herself in the title rôle.
  • March 20 – W. H. Davies, "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump on a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.[1]
  • April – Karl Kraus establishes the radical periodical Die Fackel (The Torch) in Vienna.
  • April–June – Rainer Maria Rilke, still an art student at the time, travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy.
  • May–December – The only work of fiction by the British politician Winston Churchill, Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, is serialised in Macmillan's Magazine.[2]
  • May 8 – The Irish Literary Theatre, founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn, puts on its first production in Dublin, a version of Yeats' verse drama The Countess Cathleen.
  • June 20 – The English writer Edward Thomas marries Helen Noble at Fulham register office.
  • July 31 – Arthur Machen's wife Amy dies after a long illness, an event that has a devastating effect on him.[3]
  • September 1 – The National Theatre in Norway opens with pieces by Holberg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's 1862 trilogy Sigurd Slembe.
  • September – The British Mutoscope and Biograph Company's King John (a very short silent film starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree) becomes the first known film based on a Shakespeare play.
  • November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari, is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo. It records the kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari.
Broadway production of Ben-Hur
  • November 6 – William Gillette's play Sherlock Holmes, based on the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, opens in New York City with himself in the title rôle.
  • November 7 (October 26 Old Style) – Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya receives its Russian metropolitan première at the Moscow Art Theatre, with Konstantin Stanislavski directing and playing the rôle of Astrov, and Olga Knipper as Yeléna.
  • November 18 – Leo Tolstoy completes his last novel, Resurrection («Воскресение», Voskreseniye), published serially in Niva.[4]
  • December 12 – Herbert Putnam is appointed Librarian of Congress in the United States, where he will introduce in practice the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) scheme.
  • December – The imprisoned William Sydney Porter's pseudonym O. Henry first appears over the short story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in this month's McClure's Magazine.
  • unknown dates
    • Curtis Brown (literary agents) is established in London by the American Albert Curtis Brown.
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs begins working in his father's business.
    • Simon Pokagon's O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-I-gwa-ki (Queen of the Woods) is published, the first novel both by and about Native Americans in the United States.[5]
    • Lin Shu's first translation into Chinese from a Western text, The Lady of the Camellias, is published as 巴黎茶花女遺事.
    • The first series of the Arden Shakespeare under the general editorship of W. J. Craig begins publication by Methuen in London with an edition of Hamlet edited by Edward Dowden.
    • The Bulgarian language is officially codified.[6]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • W. B. Yeats – The Wind Amongst the Reeds

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Moult, Thomas (1934). W. H. Davies. London: Thornton Butterworth.
  2. ^ Providence Public Library (R.I.) (1898). Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library ... Library. p. 116.
  3. ^ Susan Johnston Graf (30 March 2015). Talking to the Gods: Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune. SUNY Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-4384-5555-6.
  4. ^ Edward Wasiolek (1978). Tolstoy's Major Fiction. University of Chicago Press. pp. 218–. ISBN 978-0-226-87398-5.
  5. ^ MacKay, K. L. "Native American Literature – selected bibliography". Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  6. ^ Price, Glanville (2000). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 45.
  7. ^ Fraser, Hilary (2004). "Dilke, Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke (1840–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2017-09-02. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  8. ^ "Hart Crane | American poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  9. ^ Sue Sims; Hilary Clare (2000). The Encyclopaedia of School Stories: The encyclopaedia of girls' school stories. Ashgate. p. 313.
  10. ^ LastName, FirstName (2020). Chase's calendar of events 2021 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424. ISBN 9781641434249.
  11. ^ Harold Edgeworth Butler, Arcadia, the Newdigate Prize Poem, 1899. B. H. Blackwell, 1899
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