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[]

The first edition title page of one of the most prominent literary works of the year 1900, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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
  • 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[]

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[]

Main article: 1900 in 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[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 11 – James Martineau, English religious philosopher (born 1805)[11]
  • January 19 – William Larminie, Irish poet and folklorist (born 1849)
  • January 20
    • R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (born 1825)
    • John Ruskin, English art critic, social thinker, artist and poet (born 1819)
  • 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[]

  1. ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 10. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
  2. ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 12. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
  3. ^ Tavis, Anna A. (1997). Rilke's Russia: A Cultural Encounter. Northwestern University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-8101-1466-6.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 20. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
  6. ^ Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1913). Goldoni: A Biography. Duffield. p. 655.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
  9. ^ "Arabia: The Cradle of Islam". World Digital Library. 1900. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Obituary - Dr. James Martineau, London - January 12, 1900". The West Australian. 15 January 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  12. ^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6.
  13. ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  14. ^ Reuel R. Hanks (2005). Central Asia: A Global Studies Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-85109-656-5.
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