1870 in literature
Overview of the events of 1870 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870 .
Events
Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair (engraving). Fildes, the illustrator for Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 's death, shows Dickens's empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place . It appears in the Christmas edition of The Graphic [ 1] January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris.[ 2] March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford , in Cornwall .[ 3] March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens ' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood Gads Hill Place in Kent , from a stroke, aged 58.[ 4]
May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony .[ 5]
Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi 's only novel Seitsemän veljestä Finnish language .[ 6]
August 24 /25 – Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War , resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum Herrad of Landsberg , the Apologist codex containing the only text of the early Epistle to Diognetus [ 7] September 17 – The first performance of Alexander Pushkin 's play Boris Godunov 1825 ) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre .c. September 20 – Friedrich Engels moves permanently to London from Manchester .[ 8]
December 18 – The Russian literary weekly Niva Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg.[ 9] unknown date – Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay , India, is completed.[ 10]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Lear 's illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat from Nonsense Songs
Non-fiction
Births
January 3 – Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), Australian novelist (died 1946 )February 16 – Henric Streitman , Romanian essayist and journalist (died 1950 )[ 15] March 5 – Frank Norris , American novelist (died 1902 )April 7 – Gustav Landauer , German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered 1919 )June 25 – Erskine Childers , Irish novelist (executed 1922 )July 27 – Hilaire Belloc , French-born English writer, poet and satirist (died 1953 )October 18 – Petre P. Negulescu , Romanian philosopher (died 1951 )October 22 (October 10 OS ) – Ivan Bunin , Russian-born writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1953 )October 29 – Gerald Duckworth , English publisher (died 1937 )December 17 – Ioan A. Bassarabescu , Romanian short story writer and politician (died 1952 )December 18 – Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), English short story writer and dramatist (killed in action 1916 )[ 16]
Deaths
January 21 – Alexander Herzen , Russian writer (born 1812 )February 25 – Henrik Hertz , Danish poet (born 1797 )April 16 – Rallou Karatza , Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (born 1799 )April 24 – Louisa Stuart Costello , Irish writer on history and travel (born 1799 )June 9 – Charles Dickens , English novelist (born 1812 )[ 17] June 11 – William Gilmore Simms , American poet, novelist and historian (born 1806 )June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon , Australian poet (born 1833 )[ 18] July 19 – Benjamin Thorpe , scholar of Old English (born c. 1782 )July 20 – Jules de Goncourt , French novelist and critic (syphilis, born 1830 )[ 19] July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström , Swedish poet and historian (born 1790 )July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje , Norwegian journalist and poet (born 1818 )[ 20] September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American author and explorer (born 1836 )[ 21] September 23 – Prosper Mérimée , French writer (b. 1803 )[ 22] November 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse), French poet and writer (born 1846 )[ 23] December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père , French novelist (born 1802 )[ 24]
References
^ "Luke Fildes" . TheFamousArtists.com.^ Brumfield, William С. (2014), "Invitation to a Beheading: Turgenev and Troppmann" , Informatsionnyi gumanitarnyi portal "Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie" (6), archived from the original on 2015-04-02, retrieved 2015-03-17 ^ "Emma Gifford" . Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-23 .^ Obituary, The Times
^ Sonderheft der Karl-May-Gesellschaft ^ "Aleksis Kivi: Seitsemän veljestä" . Jyväskylän yliopisto . 11 August 2024. Retrieved 21 August 2020 .^ "History of the BNU" . Strasbourg: BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire ). Retrieved 2014-01-21 .^ "Outstanding Dates" . The Life and Work of Karl Marx . Retrieved 2013-07-23 .^ Jeffrey Brooks (2003). When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 . Northwestern University Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-8101-1897-1 ^ Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagã̄vakara (2009). Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863 ISBN 978-1-84331-305-2 ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Put Yourself in His Place" New International Encyclopedia
^ R. H. Super (1988). The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope . University of Michigan Press. pp. 256– 57. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 120. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ Arghezi, Tudor (1945). "75 de ani". Bilete de Papagal (46): 1.^ Ignatius Frederick Clarke (1997). The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come ISBN 978-0-85323-642-9 ^ "Dickens, Charles" Dictionary of National Biography ^ Harris, Max (1983). The unknown great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits . Melbourne: Sun Books. p. 45. ISBN 9780725104245 ^ Pages from the Goncourt Journals (2006). NYRB Classics. ISBN 159017190X .^ "Vinje-Sanger" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon.^ Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). The Biographical Dictionary of America Wikisource . scan ^ "Prosper Mérimée" . Encyclopaedia Britannica ^ Bachelard, Gaston (1986). "Lautréamont". Dallas Institute.
^ Douglas Munro (1978). Alexandre Dumas Père: A Bibliography of Works Translated Into English to 1910 ISBN 978-0-8240-9836-0
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