1888 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1888.
Events
- February 9 – During Joseph Conrad's career at sea as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, he departs from Bangkok for Sydney in his first command as master, on the British barque Otago. This provides a basis for his novella The Shadow Line (1916).
- March 6 – On the day of Amos Bronson Alcott's funeral at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts), his daughter, novelist Louisa May Alcott, already in poor health, suffers a fatal stroke.[1]
- March 16 – Foundation stone for a new National Library of Greece building is laid in Athens.
- May 26 – In London, Punch magazine begins serialisation of George and Weedon Grossmith's humorous The Diary of a Nobody, the first entry being for "April 3".[2] [3]
- June 3 – Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published under the pen name "Phin" as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner.
- July – Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes detective novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887), is first published separately as a book, by Ward Lock & Co in London with illustrations by the author's father, Charles Altamont Doyle.
- October
- unknown dates
- Sholem Aleichem edits the first issue of the anthology Di Yidishe Folksbibliotek in Kiev, giving important exposure to young writers in Yiddish, including I. L. Peretz's long ballad "Monish".[6]
- The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in English, in a translation by American linguist John Martin Crawford.[7]
- German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche writes Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert ("Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer", published 1889), Der Antichrist (1895) and his autobiography, Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist (posthumous, 1908), his last works before his total mental collapse.
- probable – The sexual memoir My Secret Life by "Walter", perhaps Henry Spencer Ashbee, begins publication, being printed in Amsterdam for clandestine sale in Britain.
New books
Fiction
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Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 24 – Vicki Baum, Austrian-born writer (died 1960)
- January 25 – A. L. Zissu, Romanian novelist and Zionist leader (died 1956)
- February 10 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian modernist poet and writer (died 1970)
- February 19 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (died 1928)
- April 26 – Anita Loos, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1981)
- June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (died 1935)
- July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1959)
- September 4 – Margaret Henley, daughter of W. E. Henley and J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (died 1894)
- September 22 – Lucia Mantu, born Camelia Nădejde, Romanian writer (died 1971)
- September 26 – T. S. Eliot, American-born English poet and playwright (died 1965)
- October 14 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand short story writer (died 1923)
- October 16 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright and Nobel laureate (died 1953)
- October 26 – Dem. Theodorescu, Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1946)
- December 7 – Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish novelist
Deaths
- January 30 – Mary Howitt, English writer, poet and translator (born 1799)
- March 4 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer and philosopher (born 1799)
- March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (born 1832)[13]
- March 14 – James Hogg, Scottish-born publisher (born 1806)
- April 15 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (born 1822)
- May 12 – Edward Lear, English writer of comic verse and artist (born 1812)
- May 27 – Františka Stránecká, Czech writer and collector of Moravian folklore (born 1839)
- August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet (born 1842)
- August 20 – Henry Richard, Welsh political writer (born 1812)
- September 24 – Karl von Prantl, German philosopher (born 1820)
- September 30 – William Gifford Palgrave, English Arabic scholar and writer (born 1826)[14]
- November 17 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian-Albanian writer (born 1828)
- December 8 – Frederick Apthorp Paley, English scholar (born 1815)
- December 23 – Laurence Oliphant, Scottish travel writer and novelist (born 1829)
Awards
Notes and References
- http://www.alcottfilm.com/louisa-may-alcott/life/final-days/ Louisa May Alcott: Final Days
- The Diary of a Nobody. Punch, or the London Charivari. 94. 26 May 1888. 241.
- Morton. Peter. "The Funniest Book in the World": Waugh and The Diary of a Nobody. The Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies. 36. 1. Spring 2005. University of Leicester. Leicester.
- Book: Brewer, John Francis . The Curse upon Mitre Square. A. D. 1530–1888 . 1889 . J. W. Lovell Company . New York . 43935642.
- Book: Woods, Paul . Baddeley, Gavin . Gavin Baddeley . 2009 . Saucy Jack: The Elusive Ripper . Hersham, Surrey . Ian Allan . 978-0-7110-3410-5 . 61–62.
- Book: Sofii͡a Dubnova-Ėrlikh. Sophie Dubnov-Erlich. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History. 1991. Indiana University Press. 0-253-31836-X. 260.
- Book: Eino Friberg. George C. Schoolfield. Bjorn Landstrom. The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People. 1988. University of Illinois Press. 978-951-1-10137-6. 30–.
- Book: Henry James. The Aspern Papers: Louisa Pallant, The Modern Warning. 1888. Macmillan and Company.
- Book: Cox, Michael . The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 0-19-860634-6 . registration .
- Book: Adams, James Eli . 2009 . A History of Victorian Literature . John Wiley and Sons . 978-0-631-22082-4 . 2010-10-28.
- Web site: Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland . Lady Wilde . LibraryIreland . 1888 . 2019-01-13.
- Web site: Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary . Celia . Fiennes . A Vision of Britain Through Time . University of Portsmouth . 2019-01-13.
- Web site: Louisa May Alcott American author . Encyclopedia Britannica . 26 March 2019 . en.
- Book: Cecil Y. Lang. Edgar Finley Shannon. The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1851-1870. July 1987. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-52584-9. 262–.
- Web site: Gordon in Africa: Newdigate prize poem, 1888 . Hathi Trust . Shrimpton ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. . 26 March 2019 . 1888.