1880 in literature
Overview of the events of 1880 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880 .
Events
February – The journal Science Thomas Edison .[ 1]
April – Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola 's home, including Guy de Maupassant 's first, "Boule de Suif ", which launches his career.[ 2]
April 20 (O. S. : April 8) – At the Romanian Academy , Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet , adopted by a commission also comprising George Bariț and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu .[ 3] rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists".[ 4] May – In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company .[ 5]
June 6 – Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin , is unveiled in Strastnaya Square , Moscow .October – Henry James 's novel The Portrait of a Lady Macmillan's Magazine The Atlantic Monthly
December 15 – First performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society Quicksands ) at the Gaiety Theatre, London .[ 6]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (died 1952 )February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimké , African-American playwright and poet (died 1958 )March 1 – Lytton Strachey , English critic and biographer (died 1932 )[ 7] March 4 – Channing Pollock , American playwright and critic (died 1946 )March 13 – Frank Thiess , German writer (died 1977 )March 21 – E. H. Young , English novelist (died 1949 )March 30 – Seán O'Casey , Irish dramatist (died 1964 )[ 8] June 10 – Margit Kaffka , Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1918 )June 17 – Carl Van Vechten , American writer (died 1964 )[ 9] June 27 – Helen Keller , American writer and lecturer (died 1968 )[ 10] July 4 – Anne Beffort , Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died 1966 )July 10 – Greye La Spina , American writer (died 1969 )August 5 – Ruth Sawyer , American children's writer and novelist (died 1970 )August 15 – Anna Rüling , German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died 1953 )[ 11] August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet and dramatist (died 1918 )[ 12] September 12 – H. L. Mencken , American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956 )[ 13] October 4 – Damon Runyon , American journalist and short-story writer (died 1946 )[ 14] October 17 – Vasile Cijevschi , Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died 1931 )October 18 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died 1940 )November 1 – Grantland Rice , American sports writer (died 1954 )November 6 – Robert Musil , Austrian novelist (died 1942 )November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died 1960 )November 29 – N. D. Cocea , Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died 1949 )December 24 – Johnny Gruelle , American cartoonist and children's author (died 1938 )[ 15]
Deaths
January 12 – Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn , German author (born 1805 )[ 16] February 12 – Karl Eduard von Holtei , German poet and dramatist (born 1798 )February 17 – James Lenox , American bibliophile (born 1800 )April 9 – Louis Edmond Duranty , French novelist and critic (born 1833 )April 16 – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy , Irish writer and barrister (born 1819 )April 18 – Costache Aristia , Wallachian translator, poet, dramatist and actor (born 1800 )May 2 – Eunice Hale Cobb , American writer, public speaker, and activist (born 1803 )May 5 – Andrei Mocioni , Hungarian-Romanian journalist and literary patron (born 1812 )May 6 – Ivan Surikov , Russian poet (born 1841 )May 8 – Gustave Flaubert , French novelist (born 1821 )[ 17] May 30 – James Planché , English dramatist (born 1796 )June 7 – Karl Christian Planck , German philosopher (born 1819 )July 7 – Lydia Maria Child , American writer and abolitionist (born 1802 )July 12 – Tom Taylor , English dramatist and journalist (born 1817 )September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury , English novelist and woman of letters (born 1812 )December 22 – George Eliot (Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born 1819 )[ 18]
Awards
References
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