1879 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1879.
Events
- January 1 – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell's bookshop, in Oxford.[1]
- January 11 – During construction of an extension to Birmingham Central Library in England, a fire destroys 50,000 books and the original manuscript of the Coventry Mystery Plays (including the "Coventry Carol").
- September – The English critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into permanent care at his Putney home.[2]
- September 6 – Arthur Conan Doyle has his first story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", published anonymously in Chambers's Journal.
- October 10 – The collected works of the American poet Ethel Lynn Beers are published as All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems. The title poem is her best-known work. On the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey.
- December – Walter Besant persuades Thomas Hardy to become a founder-member of The Rabelais Club in London, which holds a literary dinner once every two months. Other members include the novelists Henry James, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes and George du Maurier.[3]
- December 21 – The first production of Henrik Ibsen's controversial "modern drama" A Doll's House takes place at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, after publication there on December 4.
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New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
See main article: article and 1879 in poetry.
Non-fiction
Births
- January 1 – E. M. Forster, English novelist and critic (died 1970)
- January 26 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, German-born English historian and political scientist (died 1957)
- February 2 – I. C. Vissarion, Romanian novelist, dramatist, poet and science writer (died 1951)
- February 13 – Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay), Indian poet and politician (died 1949)
- February 17 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American activist and novelist (died 1958)
- March 9 – Agnes Miegel, German author, journalist and poet (died 1964)
- March 14 – Harold Monro, English poet and promoter of poetry (died 1932)
- March 28 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, poet and politician (died on hunger strike 1920)
- April 14 – James Branch Cabell, American novelist (died 1958)
- May 8 – Ioan C. Filitti, Romanian historian, political theorist and essayist (died 1945)
- June 4 – Percy Lubbock, English essayist, critic and biographer (died 1965)
- July 19 – Ferenc Móra, Hungarian children's writer and editor (died 1934)
- July 20 – Claude Scudamore Jarvis, English writer, Arabist and naturalist (died 1953)
- August 19 – Lascăr Vorel, Romanian visual artist and short story writer (died 1918)
- September 19 – Louis Joseph Vance, American novelist (died 1933)
- October 2 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (died 1955)
- November 19 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (died 1957)
- December 3 – Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風), Japanese novelist (died 1959)
- December 24 – Émile Nelligan, French Canadian poet (died 1941)[6]
Deaths
- January 16 – Octave Crémazie, "the father of French Canadian poetry" (born 1827)
- February 28 – Hortense Allart, French feminist novelist (born 1801)[7]
- March 3
- March 9 – Mark Prager Lindo, Dutch historian (born 1819)
- March 19 – Claire Clairmont, English-born diarist and correspondent (born 1798)[8]
- April 8 – Anthony Panizzi, Italian-born English librarian (born 1797)
- April 21 – George Hadfield, English radical author and politician (born 1787)
- April 25 – Charles Tennyson Turner, English poet (born 1808)
- April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American novelist and poet (born 1788)[9]
- June 1 – Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill, American children's author (born 1799)[10]
- June 3 – Frances Ridley Havergal, English religious poet (born 1836)[11]
- June 19 – George W. M. Reynolds, English popular novelist (born 1814)
- July 4 – Sarah Dorsey, American novelist and historian (born 1829)
- July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (born 1818)
- September 20 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Canadian novelist and poet (born 1829)
- September 23 – Francis Kilvert, English diarist and cleric (born 1840)
- October 11 – Ethel Lynn Beers, American poet (born 1827)
- October 13 – Henry Charles Carey, American economist (born 1793)
- October 28 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French political economist (born 1799)
- October 31
- November 23 – Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, American political essayist (born 1810)[12]
- December 27 – William Hepworth Dixon, English historian, traveller and journal editor (born 1821)[13]
Awards
Notes and References
- Web site: Nos 48–51: Blackwell's Bookshop . Broad Street, Oxford . 2008 . 2011-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110702063215/http://headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/buildings/north/48%2C49%2C50%2C51.htm . 2 July 2011 . dead.
- Book: The Pre-Raphælite Review. 1977. Rat & Mole Press. 76.
- Book: Mark Ford. Thomas Hardy. 10 October 2016. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-73789-1. 188.
- Book: Mark Ford. Thomas Hardy. 10 October 2016. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-73789-1. 188–.
- Book: Leavis, Q. D. . Q. D. Leavis
. Q. D. Leavis . Fiction and the Reading Public . 2nd . London . Chatto & Windus . 1965.
- Web site: Émile Nelligan Canadian poet . Encyclopedia Britannica . 17 April 2019 . en.
- Book: Hansen. Helynne Hollstein. Hortense Allart: the woman and the novelist. 1998. University Press of America. Lanham, Md . 076181213X. 11.
- Book: McCalman et al., pp. 454–455 . 14 May 2012. 9780199245437 . McCalman . Iain . 2001.
- Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205.
- Web site: Tuthill, Louisa Caroline Huggins (1799-1879), author . 2000. American National Biography . July 4, 2018 . en . 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1602710. Grayson. Sandra M.. 978-0-19-860669-7.
- Book: Humphreys, Maggie . Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . Mansell . London Herndon, VA . 1997 . 9780720123302 . 152.
- Book: Fraser, Jessie Melville. Bulletin. Public domain. 91. 1920. The University of South Carolina. 1.
- Book: Charles Dudley Warner. A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J). 1 July 2008. Cosimo, Inc.. 978-1-60520-248-8. 146.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=jM0IAAAAQAAJ Iona: Newdigate Prize Poem, 1879
