1900 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1900.
Events[]
- March 5 – New York performances of the play Sapho curbed for immorality.[1]
- March 15 – Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's l'Aiglon.[2]
- May
- Rainer Maria Rilke makes his second visit to Russia with Lou Andreas-Salomé and her husband.[3]
- The first film to feature the detective character Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, is released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
- May 17 – L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children.
- June 24 – The Hanlin Academy in Peking, housing "the oldest and richest library in the world", catches fire and is destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion.[4]
- June 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Library Cave or Cave for Preserving Scriptures, No. 17 of the Mogao Caves in north-west China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.
- July 1 – The Net Book Agreement comes into force in the U.K: publishers will supply booksellers only on condition that they do not retail the supplied books at a discounted rate.
- October 15 – Mark Twain ended an absence from the United States of some nine years when he returned to New York aboard the Atlantic Transport Line steamship Minnehaha.[5]
- November 1 – Ermete Novelli opens the "Casa di Goldoni", a new theatre in imitation of the Comédie Française, at Rome.[6]
- November 19 – August Strindberg's To Damascus (Till Damaskus, first two parts) receives its première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with and Harriet Bosse, Strindberg's future wife, in the leading rôles.
- unknown dates
- In Austrian-Hungarian Bosnia, Osman Nuri Hadžić issues Behar, the first Bosnian Muslim literary journal, promoting liberal Islam within the Islamic revival movement.[7]
- The first film of Hamlet is an adaptation of the duel scene, with the French actress Sarah Bernhardt playing the title rôle.
New books[]
Fiction[]
- Pío Baroja – The House of Aizgorri (La casa de Aizgorri, first in trilogy The Basque Country (La Tierra Vasca)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon – The Infidel
- Ernest Bramah – The Wallet of Kai Lung
- Gelett Burgess – Goops, and How to Be Them (1st in the Goops series)
- Colette – Claudine at School (Claudine à l'école)
- Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
- Marie Corelli – The Master Christian
- Louis Couperus
- Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid
- De stille kracht (The Hidden Force)
- Stephen Crane – Whilomville Stories
- Gabriele D'Annunzio – The Flame of Life (Il Fuoco)
- Theodore Dreiser – Sister Carrie
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – The Heart's Highway
- Robert Grant – Unleavened Bread
- Thomas Anstey Guthrie – The Brass Bottle
- Maurice Hewlett – The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay[8]
- Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men on the Bummel
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky – The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (Russian: Воскресшие боги. Леонардо да Винчи, literally Resurrected Gods: Leonardo da Vinci)
- Octave Mirbeau – The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre)
- F. D. J. Pangemanann – Tjerita Si Tjonat
- Bradford C. Peck – The World a Department Store
- I. L. Peretz – "Oyb Nisht Nokh Hekher" (If Not Higher; short story)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz – The Teutonic Knights (Krzyżacy)
- Flora Annie Steel
- The Hosts of the Lord
- Voices in the Night
- Booth Tarkington – Monsieur Beaucaire
- Frederik van Eeden – Van de koele meren des doods (From the Cool Lakes of Death)
- Jules Verne
- The Will of an Eccentric
- The Castaways of the Flag
- Mary Augusta Ward – Eleanor
- H. G. Wells – Love and Mr Lewisham
Children and young people[]
- L. Frank Baum
- A New Wonderland
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Harriet Theresa Comstock – Molly, the Drummer Boy
- Andrew Lang – The Grey Fairy Book
- Emilio Salgari – The Tigers of Mompracem (Le Tigri di Mompracem)
Drama[]
- David Belasco – Madame Butterfly
- José Echegaray – El loco Dios (The Madman Divine)
- Clyde Fitch – Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
- Herman Heijermans – Op Hoop van Zegen
- James Herne – Sag Harbor
- Haralamb Lecca – Quarta. Jucătoriĭ de cărțĭ
- George Moore – The Bending of the Bough: a comedy in five acts
- George Bernard Shaw – Captain Brassbound's Conversion
- Arthur Schnitzler – La Ronde (German: Reigen; privately printed)
- August Strindberg
- The Dance of Death (Dödsdansen)
- Easter (Påsk)
- To Damascus (Till Damaskus) opens in Sweden
- Hermann Sudermann – Fires of St. John
Musicals[]
- Owen Hall, Leslie Stuart - Florodora
Poetry[]
- Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch)
- G. K. Chesterton – The Wild Knight and Other Poems
- Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (posthumously edited by Andrew Lang) – The Poems and Ballads
- Ismail Hossain Shiraji – Anal Prabaha
Non-fiction[]
- William "Cocktail" Boothby – The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them
- Winston Churchill
- Arthur Conan Doyle – The Great Boer War
- Nicolae Iorga
- Opinions sincères (Sincere Opinions)
- Opinions pérnicieuses d'un mauvais patriote (Pernicious Opinions of a Poor Patriot)
- Gertrude Jekyll – Home and Garden
- Andrew Lang
- A History of Scotland, vol. 1
- Prince Charles Edward
- Guide Michelin (1st issue)
- Joaquim Nabuco – My Formation (Minha formação)
- The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (editor James Wood)
- José Enrique Rodó - Ariel
- Samuel Marinus Zwemer – Arabia: The Cradle of Islam[9]
Births[]
- January 9 – Emmanuel D'Astier, French journalist (died 1969 in literature)
- January 15 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer (died 1991 in literature)
- January 31 – Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall, English biographer and children's writer (died 1990 in literature)
- February 4 – Jacques Prévert, French poet (died 1977)
- February 19 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (died 1971)
- February 22 – Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish short story writer (died 1991)
- March 7 – Benn Levy, English playwright and politician (died 1973)
- March 15 – Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian author (died 1987)
- April 19 – Richard Hughes, English novelist (died 1976)
- April 20 – Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor, Romanian anthropologist, ethnographer and children's writer (died 1968)
- April 22 – Vyvyan Adams (Watchman), English writer and politician (died 1951)
- April 24 – Elizabeth Goudge, English novelist and children's author (died 1984)
- May 1 – Ignazio Silone, Italian author and politician (died 1978)
- May 6 – Garrett Mattingly, American historian (died 1962)
- May 24 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian author (died 1984)
- May 28 – Nan Chauncy, English-born Australian children's writer (died 1970)
- June 11 – Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer (died 1970)
- June 19 – Ștefan Voitec, Romanian politician and journalist (died 1984)
- June 25 – Gerald Drayson Adams, English screenwriter (died 1988)
- June 29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French novelist (died 1944)
- July 2 – Tyrone Guthrie, English theatrical director (died 1971)
- July 18 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (died 1999)
- July 24 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author (died 1948)
- August 10 – Charles Shaw, Australian writer (died 1955)
- September 7 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American novelist (died 1985)
- September 9 – James Hilton, English novelist (died 1954)
- October 16 – Edward Ardizzone, English children's writer and illustrator (died 1979)
- October 30 – Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter (died 1995)
- November 8 – Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (died 1949)
- November 19 – Anna Seghers, German writer (died 1983)
- December 8 – Ants Oras, Estonian writer (died 1982)
- December 16 – V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer (died 1997)[10]
Deaths[]
- January 11 – James Martineau, English religious philosopher (born 1805)[11]
- January 19 – William Larminie, Irish poet and folklorist (born 1849)
- January 20
- January 25 – Frederick H. Chapin, American author and explorer (born 1852)
- February 6 – Elijah Benamozegh, Italian spiritual writer and rabbi (born 1822)
- February 14 – Giovanni Canestrini, Italian scientist, essayist and translator (born 1835)
- February 18 – Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician and theorist (born 1835)
- February 23 – Ernest Dowson, English poet and novelist (born 1867)
- March 11 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematics writer (born 1822)
- March 30 – David Léon Cahun, French Orientalist and writer (born 1841)
- April 12 – James Richard Cocke, American author and hypnotherapist (born 1863)
- April 21 – Charles Beecher, American composer, minister and writer (born 1815)
- April 23 – Charles Isaac Elton, English historian, politician and writer (born 1839)
- April 27 – Francišak Bahuševič, Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer (born 1840)
- April 30 – George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician and writer (born 1823)
- May 4 – Hugo Badalić, Croatian writer and scholar (born 1851)
- May 20 – André Léo, French novelist and journalist (born 1824)
- May 28 – Sir George Grove, English writer and lexicographer on music (born 1820)
- June 2 – Clarence Cook, American author and art critic (born 1828)
- June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English travel writer and explorer (born 1862)
- June 4 – Edwards Amasa Park, American theologian, pastor and writer (born 1808)
- June 5 – Stephen Crane, American writer, journalist and poet (born 1871)
- June 12 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (born 1820)[12]
- June 19 – Salvador Camacho, Colombian economist, politician and writer (born 1827)
- July 3 – Fernand Brouez, Belgian editor and founder of La Société Nouvelle (born 1861)
- July 6 – Gustav Jacob Born, German medical author and histologist (born 1851)
- July 22 – Lucius E. Chittenden, American writer and politician (born 1824)
- July 29 – Henry Spencer Ashbee, English writer and bibliographer (born 1834)
- August 2 – Sydney Robert Bellingham, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (born 1808)
- August 16 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (born 1845)
- August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist (born 1844)
- August 28 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (born 1838)
- September 18 – Anne Beale, Welsh novelist and poet (born 1816)
- September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American author and prohibitionist (born 1814)
- October 13 – Louis Adolphe Cochery, French journalist and politician (born 1819)
- October 20 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (born 1846)
- October 27 – James Henry Bowker, South African naturalist (born 1822)
- November 12 – Thomas Arnold the Younger, English literary scholar (born 1823)
- November 16 – Isidore Barthe, French-Canadian journalist and translator (born 1834)
- November 27 – David Carnegie, Australian travel writer (born 1871)
- November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, dramatist and short story writer (born 1854)[13]
- December 15 – Charles Cotesworth Beaman, American lawyer and author (born 1840)
- December 30 – Henry Ames Blood, American poet, dramatist and historian (born 1836)
- December 31 – Oscar Alin, Swedish historian, politician and author (born 1846)
- unknown date – Berdakh, Uzbek poet (born 1827)[14]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 10. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
- ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 12. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
- ^ Tavis, Anna A. (1997). Rilke's Russia: A Cultural Encounter. Northwestern University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-8101-1466-6.
- ^ Davis, Donald G.; Huanwen, Cheng, Destruction Of Chinese Books in the Peking Siege Of 1900, International Federation of Library Association, archived from the original on 2008-09-19, retrieved 2008-10-26
- ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 20. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
- ^ Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1913). Goldoni: A Biography. Duffield. p. 655.
- ^ Okey, Robin (2007). Taming Balkan Nationalism. The Habsburg "Civilizing Mission" in Bosnia 1878–1914. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press. pp. 168–169, 240. ISBN 978-0-19-921391-7.
- ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
- ^ "Arabia: The Cradle of Islam". World Digital Library. 1900. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
- ^ Stinson, John (1992). V.S. Pritchett : a study of the short fiction. New York Toronto New York: Twayne Publishers Maxwell Macmillan Canada Maxwell Macmillan International. p. xii. ISBN 9780805783414.
- ^ "Obituary - Dr. James Martineau, London - January 12, 1900". The West Australian. 15 January 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Reuel R. Hanks (2005). Central Asia: A Global Studies Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-85109-656-5.
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