1919 in literature

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Events from the year 1919 in literature .

Events[]

  • February – Richmal Crompton's anarchic English schoolboy William Brown is introduced in the first published Just William story, "Rice-Mould", in Home magazine.
  • March 1 – October 15 – Publication runs of the American pulp magazine The Thrill Book are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of The Heads of Cerberus, written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds.
  • March – The diaries up to the end of 1917 from the English naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings) are published as The Journal of a Disappointed Man in London by Chatto & Windus. This treats his resignation to the disease multiple sclerosis, of which he will die on October 22, aged 30, at Gerrards Cross.[1]
  • March 28 – Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in an exhibition of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
  • April 2 – Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.
  • April 7 – The anarchist writers Gustav Landauer and Erich Mühsam play leading roles in creating the Bavarian Soviet Republic. They are later joined by the essayist and debt relief advocate Silvio Gesell. Taken over by the Communist Party of Germany, the republic is eventually crushed by the Freikorps; Landauer is killed in prison (May 2).[2] Combatants on the Freikorps side include Ernst Kantorowicz, later famous as a historian.[3]
  • April and October – The English writers Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby return after war service to complete their degree courses at Somerville College, Oxford .[4]
  • June – The Algonquin Round Table of writers, critics, actors and wits led by Alexander Woollcott first meets at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City.
  • July 29 – Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace set up the publishing company Harcourt, Brace & Howe in New York City.[5]
  • October 28 – Arthur Ransome leaves Russia with his future wife Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina, previously Trotsky's secretary, carrying a diplomatic message for Estonia.
  • November – The literary monthly The London Mercury is launched with J. C. Squire as editor.
  • November 19 – An American expatriate, Sylvia Beach, opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.
  • November 29 – The Großes Schauspielhaus opens as a theater in Berlin, with an interior designed by Hans Poelzig. It begins with the director Max Reinhardt's production of the Oresteia.[6]
  • December – T. E. Lawrence loses most of the manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom while changing trains at Reading in England en route from the Paris Peace Conference to Oxford.[7]
  • unknown dates
    • The column "By the Way" and the pen name Beachcomber in the London newspaper the Daily Express are taken over by D. B. Wyndham Lewis as a humorous feature.[8]
    • Singer House in Petrograd (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) is allocated to the Petrograd State Publishing House, quickly becoming the city's largest bookstore. It will be known subsequently as Дом Книги (Dom knigi, "The House of Books").

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1919 in poetry
  • E. J. Brady – The House of the Winds
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg – In tsaytns roysh (In the tumult of the times, verse and prose)[10]
  • Siegfried Sassoon – The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
  • August Stramm (killed in action 1915) – Tropfblut
  • Giuseppe Ungaretti
    • Allegria di naufragi (The Joy of Shipwrecks)
    • La guerra (The War)
  • Louis Untermeyer (ed.) – Modern American Poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Henri Bergson – L'Energie spirituelle: essais et conférences (Spiritual Energy: Essays and Lectures)
  • Francis P. Duffy with Joyce Kilmer – Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth
  • Johan Huizinga – The Waning of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)
  • William Inge – Outspoken Essays (first series)
  • John Maynard Keynes – The Economic Consequences of the Peace
  • Karl Kraus – Weltgericht (Last Judgment)
  • Dorothy Lawrence – Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier (autobiography)
  • H. L. Mencken – The American Language
  • Arthur Ransome – Six Weeks in Russia 1919
  • John Reed – Ten Days That Shook the World
  • Carl Sandburg – The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
  • Prof. William Strunk, Jr. – The Elements of Style
  • H. G. Wells – The Outline of History (publication of first installment, November 22)
  • Arthur Graeme West (killed on active service 1917) – The Diary of a Dead Officer
  • Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley – Gardens, their Form and Design

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 4 – Matilda Betham-Edwards, English novelist, poet and travel writer (born 1836)
  • January 11 – Kazimierz Zalewski, Polish dramatist, critic and publisher (born 1849)
  • January 15 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-born German revolutionary socialist (assassinated, born 1871)
  • January 31 – Paul Lindau, German dramatist (born 1839)
  • February 26 – Anne Thackeray Ritchie, English novelist and essayist (born 1837)
  • May 2 – Gustav Landauer, German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered, born 1870)
  • May 6 – L. Frank Baum, children's writer (stroke, born 1856)
  • May 10 – Ferdinando Fontana, Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet (born 1850)
  • May 17 – Guido von List, Viennese poet, dramatist, and occultist (born 1848)
  • May 30 – Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (tuberculosis, born 1887)
  • June 14 – Weedon Grossmith, English writer, actor and playwright (born 1854)
  • June 19 – Petre P. Carp, Romanian politician, polemicist, and translator (born 1837)
  • June 23 – Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist (born 1854)
  • July 8 – John Fox, Jr., American novelist and short story writer (pneumonia, born 1862)
  • August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish American industrialist and writer (pneumonia, born 1835)
  • September 12 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer (heart failure, born 1871)
  • October 22 – W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings), English naturalist and diarist (multiple sclerosis, born 1889)
  • October 30 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (born 1850)
  • November 3 – Abraham Valdelomar, Peruvian poet, essayist and dramatist (accidental fall, born 1888)

Awards[]

In literature[]

  • Opening of J. G. Farrell's novel Troubles (1970)

References[]

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