1925 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925.

Events[]

  • February 21 – The first issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Harold Ross.[1]
  • February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in Vorwärts (Berlin).
  • April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in The Sun Also Rises.
  • May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London.[2] Woolf is beginning work on To the Lighthouse.
  • May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954.[3]
  • Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two first-class cricket matches, for Dublin University against Northamptonshire.
  • July 22 – The first of Ben Travers' "Aldwych farces", A Cuckoo in the Nest, opens at London's Aldwych Theatre in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls featuring the brothers Ralph Lynn, Gordon James and Hastings Lynn.[4]
  • October 1 – J. R. R. Tolkien becomes Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
  • December 24 – A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh story "The Wrong Sort of Bees" appears in the London Evening News.
  • December 28 – The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (born 1895) writes a farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья) in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel, Leningrad.
  • December – W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood meet for the first time as adults in London.[5]
  • unknown dates
    • Miss Riboet's Orion theatrical troupe is established in the Dutch East Indies.[6]
    • The first complete translation of the 14th-century Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義) from Chinese into English is published by Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor.[7]
    • Leslie Hotson publishes the first account from contemporary records of the murder of the dramatist Christopher Marlowe in 1593,[8] claiming to have found the evidence while researching Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale in the archives of the English Public Records Office in 1923–1924.[9]
    • T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishers Faber and Gwyer, having been recommended to Geoffrey Faber by Charles Whibley.[10]
    • The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1925 in poetry
  • T. S. Eliot – The Hollow Men
  • F. W. Harvey – September and Other Poems

Non-fiction[]

  • Max Aitken – Politicians and the Press
  • Alice Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
  • Edwin Burtt – The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
  • G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man
  • Maurice Halbwachs – La Mémoire collective (On Collective Memory)
  • Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf
  • Walter Lippmann – The Phantom Public
  • Dmitry Merezhkovsky
    • The Birth of Gods: Tutankhamen in Crete (Rozhdenīe bogov: Tutankamon na Kritie)
    • The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon (Taĭna trekh: Egipet i Vavilon)
  • Arthur E. Powell – The Etheric Double and Allied Phenomena
  • Franz Roh – Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting)
  • George Saintsbury, ed. – The Receipt Book of Mrs. Anne Blencowe (manuscript 1694)
  • Clare Sheridan – Across Europe with Satanella (motorcycle tour)
  • J. R. R. Tolkien – "The Devil's Coach Horses"
  • Hendrik Willem van Loon – Tolerance
  • H. G. Wells – A Year of Prophesying

Anthologies[]

Births[]

  • January 7 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-born British naturalist and author (died 1995)[16]
  • January 8 – James Saunders, English dramatist (died 2004)
  • January 9 – Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, Algerian writer (died 1996)
  • January 11 – William Styron, American writer (died 2006)
  • January 14 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Kimitake Hiraoka), Japanese author and political activist (died 1970)[17]
  • January 17 – Robert Cormier, American young-adult novelist (died 2000)
  • January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Catholic priest and poet (died 2020)
  • January 26 – Miep Diekmann, Dutch writer of children's literature (died 2017)
  • February 18 – Jack Gilbert, American poet and educator (died 2012)
  • February 20 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (died 1985)
  • February 22
    • Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (died 2000)
    • Gerald Stern, American poet and academic
  • March 14 – John Wain, English novelist and short-story writer (died 1994)
  • March 16 – Ismith Khan, Trinidad-born novelist (died 2002)
  • March 21 – Peter Brook, English theatre director
  • March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, American author (died 1964)
  • March 27 – John Bayley, Indian-born English literary critic (died 2015)
  • May 25 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer (died 1974)
  • June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson, French writer (died 2017)
  • July 26 – Ana María Matute, Spanish novelist (died 2014)
  • August 1 – Pam Gems, born Iris Pamela Price, English playwright (died 2011)
  • August 12 – Donald Justice, American poet and educator (died 2004)
  • August 17 – John Hawkes, American novelist (died 1998)
  • August 18 – Brian Aldiss, English science fiction author and editor (died 2017)
  • August 28 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer (died 1991)
  • September 4 – Forrest Carter, American speechwriter and author (died 1979)
  • September 6 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian novelist and playwright (died 2019)[18]
  • October 1
    • Christine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2005)
    • Diana Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2015)
  • October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer (died 2012)
  • October 8 – Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian writer and dissident (died 1997)
  • October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013)
  • October 25 – Romek Marber, Polish-born book designer (died 2020)[19]
  • October 26 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer and artist (died 2007)
  • December 19 – Tankred Dorst, German dramatist (died 2017)[20]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Whitworth, Michael H. (2005). Virginia Woolf. Authors in Context. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978019151656-6. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
  3. ^ "The Life of C. S. Lewis Timeline". Redlands, CA: C. S. Lewis Foundation. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  4. ^ "Aldwych Theatre". The Times. London. 1925-07-23. p. 12.
  5. ^ Christopher Isherwood (2011). Christopher Isherwood Diaries. Vintage. p. 904. ISBN 978-0-09-955582-7.
  6. ^ Cohen, Matthew Isaac (2007). "Riboet, Miss (1900?–1965)". In Leiter, Samuel L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre: O-Z. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 161–62. ISBN 978-0-313-33531-0.
  7. ^ Isidore Cyril Cannon (1 March 2009). Public Success, Private Sorrow: The Life and Times of Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor (1857-1938), China Customs Commissioner and Pioneer Translator. Hong Kong University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-962-209-961-6.
  8. ^ The Death of Christopher Marlowe.
  9. ^ Several different names had been mentioned in connection with Marlowe's death, two being "one Ingram" and "ffrancis ffrezer". Hotson stumbled on "Ingram Frizer" and "felt at once that I had come upon the man who killed Christopher Marlowe" (p. 23).
  10. ^ Kojecky, Roger (1972). T. S. Eliot's Social Criticism. London: Faber & Faber. p. 55. ISBN 0571096921.
  11. ^ Potts, Stephen (1991). The second Marxian invasion : the fiction of the Strugatsky brothers. San Bernardino, Calif: Borgo Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780893702793.
  12. ^ Marcel Chabrier; André Legrand (1925). Remy de Gourmont, son œuvre: portrait et autographe; document pour l'histoire de la littérature française (in French). Éditions de la Nouvelle revue critique.
  13. ^ F. Seymour Smith (1953). What Shall I Read Next? A Personal Selection of Twentieth Century English Books. Cambridge University Press. p. 69.
  14. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
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  17. ^ Stokes, Henry (2000). The life and death of Yukio Mishima. New York Place of publication not identified: Cooper Square Press Distributed by National Book Network. p. 37. ISBN 9780815410744.
  18. ^ John Hooper (17 July 2019). "Andrea Camilleri obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  19. ^ "Romek Marber (1925–2020)". Galicia Jewish Museum. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  20. ^ Tankred Dorst (1975). Toller. Manchester University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7190-0602-9.
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  23. ^ The Minute Man. Sons of the American Revolution. 1927. p. 236.
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  26. ^ "Rider Haggard Dies in London Hospital. Author of 'She,' 'King Solomon's Mines' and Many Other Novels Was Nearly 69". New York Times. 15 May 1925. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
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