1885 in literature
Overview of the events of 1885 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1885 .
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
—Opening lines of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Events
January 1 – The Dictionary of National Biography Leslie Stephen .[ 1] February 18 – Mark Twain 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn New York by the author's own publishing house, Charles L. Webster , illustrated by E. W. Kemble , the first impression having been delayed for replacement of an unauthorized obscene alteration to one of the illustrative plates. Its first-person narrative in colloquial language is initially controversial but ultimately influential in the development of realism in American literature .[ 2] [ 3] March 7 – José Echegaray 's play La vida alegre y muerte triste opens in Spain.[ 4] March 19 – Bolesław Prus 's first major naturalistic novel, The Outpost Placówka ), begins serialization in the Polish illustrated weekly, Wędrowiec May – Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire , using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette , publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette , a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement .[ 5]
May 16 – Sakuradoki Zeni no Yononaka ("The Season of Cherry Blossoms; The World of Money"), an adaptation by Genzo Katsu after Bunkai Udagawa of The Merchant of Venice Edo period , is performed by the Nakamura Sojuro Kabuki company at the Ebisu-za Theater in Osaka , the first of Shakespeare 's plays to be staged with actors in Japan .[ 6] May 19 – The Revised Version June 1 – More than two million people join Victor Hugo 's funeral procession in Paris from the Arc de Triomphe to the Panthéon , where he is the first author to be buried, following his death on May 22 in the city from pneumonia aged 83.June 29 – Thomas Hardy moves to a house he designed for himself and built by his brother at Max Gate on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset .[ 7] unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
J. W. Cross (ed.) – George Eliot 's Life, as related in her letters and journals
Anténor Firmin – De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (On the Equality of Human Races)Tsubouchi Shōyō ((坪内 逍遥) – Shōsetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel)
Births
January 16 – Zhou Zuoren (周作人), Chinese vernacular writer (died 1967 )February 7 – Sinclair Lewis , American novelist (died 1951 )[ 13] February 21 – Sacha Guitry , French dramatist and screenwriter (died 1957 )[ 14] February 24 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz , Polish painter, playwright and novelist (died 1939 )March 6 – Ring Lardner , American writer (died 1933 )March 25 – Mateiu Caragiale , Romanian novelist and poet (died 1936 )March 27 – Constantin Gane , Romanian biographer and historical novelist (died 1962 )April 17 – Karen Blixen , Danish author (died 1962 )[ 15] May 2 – Hedda Hopper , American columnist (died 1966 )May 8 – Thomas B. Costain , Canadian author and journalist (died 1965 )[ 16] May 9 – Al. T. Stamatiad , Romanian poet (died 1955 )July 10 – Mary O'Hara , American author and screenwriter (died 1980 )[ 17] July 18 – Marino Moretti , Italian poet and author (died 1979 )[ 18] August 15 – Edna Ferber , American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1968 )[ 19] September 7 – Elinor Wylie (Elinor Morton Hoyt), American poet and novelist (died 1928 )[ 20] September 11 – D. H. Lawrence , English fiction writer and poet (died 1930 )[ 21] September 24 – Shane Leslie , Irish author (died 1971 )[ 22] October 3 – Sophie Treadwell , American dramatist and journalist (died 1970 )October 11 – François Mauriac , French novelist (died 1970 )[ 23] October 30 – Ezra Pound , American poet (died 1972 )[ 24] November 9 (October 28 O.S. ) – Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian Futurist poet and writer (died 1922 )December 8 – Kenneth Roberts , American novelist (died 1957 )[ 25]
Deaths
January 10 – Amable Tastu , French women of letters and poet (born 1795 )February 14 – Jules Vallés , French writer (born 1832 )March 17 – Susan Warner (pseudonym Elizabeth Weatherell), American religious and children's writer (born 1819 )April 8 – Susanna Moodie , English-born Canadian author (born 1803 )April 18 – Marc Monnier , French author and translator (born 1827 )[ 26] April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen , Danish novelist (born 1847 )May 13 – Juliana Horatia Ewing , English children's writer (born 1841 )May 15 – Hugh Conway , English novelist (born 1847 )May 22 – Victor Hugo , French poet and novelist (born 1802 )[ 27] June 18 – Louis Segond , Swiss theologian (born 1810 )July 13 – Augusto Vera , Italian philosopher (born 1813 )July 15 – Rosalía de Castro , Spanish Galician poet and writer (born 1837 )August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton , English man of letters, poet and politician (born 1809 )September 18 – John Campbell Shairp , Scottish critic (born 1819 )November 29 – Anne Gilchrist , English-born American critic and biographer (emphysema, born 1828 )[ 28]
References
^ Gillian Fenwick (1993). Leslie Stephen's Life in Letters: A Bibliographical Study ISBN 978-0-85967-912-1 ^ Blair, Walter (1960). Mark Twain & Huck Finn . Berkeley: University of California.^ "All Modern Literature Comes from One Book by Mark Twain" . Philadelphia: Bauman Rare Books. Retrieved 2013-01-07 .^ Crónicas y artículos sobre teatro ISBN 978-968-36-8971-9 ^ Martha Kapos (1993). The Post-impressionists: A Retrospective ISBN 978-0-88363-963-4 ^ Kawachi, Yoshiko (1998). "The Merchant of Venice and Japanese Culture". Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries . Newark: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874136739 ^ "Hardy Country" . National Trust. Retrieved 2013-04-30 .^ Torigoe Shin (ed.) (2004). Interesting Reading Japanese Children's Literature: Pre-war Period . Kyōto: Minerva Shobō. pp 14–15. 鳥越信『たのしく読める日本児童文学 戦前編』、ミネルヴァ書房、京都、2004年。
^ John T. Koch (2012). The Celts: History, Life, and Culture ISBN 978-1-59884-964-6 ^ George Meredith (1885). Diana Of the Crossways: a Novel: By George Meredith ... In Three Volumes ^ Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1885). Geografi og kaerlighed ^ David Scott Kastan (2006). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature ISBN 978-0-19-516921-8 ^ Martin Bucco; G. K. Hall & Company (1986). Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis ISBN 978-0-8161-8698-3 ^ Radio Liberty Research Bulletin ^ O. Classe; [Anonymus AC02468681] (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7 {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link )^ Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1953 ISBN 978-0-8242-0119-7 ^ Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults ISBN 978-0-933833-11-1 ^ Gaetana Marrone (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J ISBN 978-1-57958-390-3 ^ Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History . Westport: Greenwood Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-31328-803-6 ^ Education Manual . United States Armed Forces Institute. 1942. p. 325.^ John Worthen (31 July 1992). D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence ISBN 978-0-521-43772-1 ^ World Authors, 1900-1950 . H.W. Wilson. 1996. p. 1356.^ K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1963). Francois Mauriac: Novelist & Moralist ^ Lawrence S. Rainey (15 December 1991). Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos ISBN 978-0-226-70316-9 ^ "Roberts, Kenneth L., 1885-1957" . Dartmouth College Library . Retrieved September 18, 2022 .^ The Academy and Literature ^ Albert W. Halsall (1 January 1998). Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama ISBN 978-0-8020-4322-1 ^ "Gilchrist Family Papers – Biographical Sketch" . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Archived from the original on 2005-08-27. Retrieved 2013-01-07 .