1883 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1883.
Events
- January 13 – Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende, 1882) gains its first performance at the Christiania Theatre.[1]
- February – Carlo Collodi's children's story The Adventures of Pinocchio appears first in Italy complete in book form as Le avventure di Pinocchio.
- May 23 – Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island first appears in book form from Cassell in London.
- June – Footlights, the University of Cambridge drama club in England, gives its first performance.
- June 4 – Mihai Eminescu reads his nationalist poem Doina to an enthusiastic crowd at Junimea in Iași.[2] It is sometimes described as his last work before a mental breakdown later this year. Eminescu's host Ion Creangă recalls it being composed on the spot,[3] but some researchers date it back to 1870.[4]
- June 30–October 20 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest is serialized in the British magazine Young Folks as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.
- July – The first issue of Fiamuri Arbërit, an Albanian literary and political magazine, is published from Cosenza. Managed by Girolamo de Rada, it promotes Ottomanism against Philhellenism.[5]
- August – Ivan Turgenev dictates his last story, "An end", to Pauline Viardot (who writes it in French) on his deathbed at Bougival in France.[6]
- August 29 – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library, opens in Andrew Carnegie's home town, Dunfermline, Scotland.
- October 3–9 – Turgenev's body is returned by train from Paris to Saint Petersburg with crowds turning out to honor him.[6]
- December 27–28 – The Modern Language Association of America holds its first meeting.
- Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
See main article: 1883 in poetry.
Non-fiction
Births
- January 1 – Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer (died 1949)
- January 6 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-born poet and novelist writing in Arabic and English (died 1931)
- January 10 – Aleksei Tolstoy, Russian writer (died 1945)[9]
- January 20 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (died 1942)
- January 21 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher (died 1929)
- February 8 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian/American political economist (died 1950)
- February 15 – Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died 1959)
- February 16 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer (died [1980])
- February 20 – Naoya Shiga, Japanese novelist (died 1971)
- March 2 (February 18 O.S.) – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek novelist (died 1957)
- March 9 – Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (died 1957)
- March 17 – Urmuz, Romanian short prose writer (died 1923)
- March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under, Estonian poet (died 1980)
- April 18 – Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (died 1956)
- April 27 - Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (died 1927)[10]
- April 30 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (died 1923)[11]
- June 3 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist writing in German (died 1924)
- June 4 – Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, English crime writer (died 1955)
- July 29 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (died 1942)
- September 14 – Rose Combe, French writer and railway worker (died 1932)[12]
- September 22 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (died 1932)
- October 18 – Helena Boguszewska, Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (died 1978)
- December 13 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (died 1950)[13]
- December 23 – Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher and politician (died 1966)
- December 30 – Marie Gevers, Belgian novelist writing in French (died 1975)
- unknown date – May Edginton, English popular novelist (died 1957)[14]
Deaths
- January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray, English novelist and travel writer (born 1790)
- March 14 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (born 1818)
- April 24 – Jules Sandeau, French novelist (born 1811)
- May 15 – Mary Elizabeth Mohl ("Clarkey"), English-born literary salonnière (born 1793)
- May 23 – Cyprian Norwid, Polish poet, dramatist and artist (born 1821)
- June 20 – Gustave Aimard, French novelist (born 1818)
- June 11 – Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English poet, novelist, short story writer (born 1813)
- July 16 – Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (born 1814)
- August 31 – Levin Schücking, German novelist (born 1814)
- September 2 – Léon Halévy, French historian and dramatist (born 1802)
- September 3 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist (born 1818)
- September 10 – Hendrik Conscience, Flemish novelist (born 1812)
- September 25 – George Ayliffe Poole, English writer and cleric (born 1809)[15]
- November 26 – Sojourner Truth, African American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author (born 1797)[16]
- December 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (born 1812)[17]
- unknown date – Mary S. B. Shindler, American poet (born 1810)
Notes and References
- Web site: Jens-Morten . Hanssen . Facts about An Enemy of the People. Ibsen.net . 2001-08-10 . 2013-02-08.
- Irimia . Dumitru . 1883 – anul Eminescu . Anuar de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară . XXIX . 1 . 1984.
- Book: Gorovei, Arthur . Arthur Gorovei
. Arthur Gorovei . Alte vremuri. Amintiri literare . J. Bendit . Fălticeni . 1930 . 62–63.
- Z. . Ornea . Zigu Ornea . Un doctrinar legionar de azi . https://web.archive.org/web/20160826131337/http://www.romlit.ro/un_doctrinar_legionar_de_azi . dead . 2016-08-26 . . 37 . 2000 . Romanian.
- Book: Clayer, Nathalie . Aux origines du nationalisme albanais. La naissance d'une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe . Karthala . Paris . 2007 . 293–294 . 978-2-84586-816-8.
- Book: Figes, Orlando. Orlando Figes
. Orlando Figes. The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture. Allen Lane. [London]. 2019. 978-0-241-00489-0. 462-7.
- Web site: The First Typewriter . 2013-11-03 . Rehr . Darryl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090201140007/http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html . 2009-02-01.
- Book: Martin Banham . James R. Brandon . The Cambridge Guide to Theatre . 21 September 1995 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-43437-9 . 585.
- Book: Stanley Hochman. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. McGraw-Hill. 1984. 31.
- Moore, Richard B., "Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)", in Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (eds), Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1982), 292–93.
- Book: 501 great writers : A comprehensive guide to the giants of literature . 9781845433109 . 2009 . Patrick . Julian . Apple . 287.
- Book: Vialatte. Alexandre. Henri. Pourrat. Dany. Hadjadj. Sylviane. Coyault. Correspondance Alexandre Vialatte - Henri Pourrat: 1916-1959 5, De Paris à Héliopolis: mars 1935 - juillet 1939. Clermont-Ferrand. Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal. 2001. 58. 978-2-84516-381-2. FR.
- Web site: Belle da Costa Greene American librarian and bibliographer . Encyclopedia Britannica . 13 July 2020 . en.
- Book: Lorna Sage. Germaine Greer. Elaine Showalter. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. 30 September 1999. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-66813-2. 214.
- Book: John McClintock. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. 1889. Harper & brothers. 780.
- Book: Frances E. Ruffin. Sojourner Truth: Early Abolitionist. 15 December 2001. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 978-0-8239-5826-9. 21.
- Book: Charles Dudley Warner. A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z). 1 July 2008. Cosimo, Inc.. 978-1-60520-251-8. 327.
