1886 in literature
Overview of the events of 1886 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1886 .
Events
January – MLN: Modern Language Notes Johns Hopkins University .
January 5 and January 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson 's horror novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde January 17 – The Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Somerville and Ross first meet, at Castletownshend , County Cork , Ireland.February – A list of 100 books considered "necessary for a liberal education", compiled by John Lubbock , is published.[ 1]
February 22 – The first performance of William Gillette 's American Civil War drama Held by the Enemy is held at the Criterion Theater, Brooklyn , New York.April 10 – Anatole Baju begins publication of the magazine Le Décadent Decadent movement .May–July – Robert Louis Stevenson 's Scottish historical novel Kidnapped Young Folks
May 7 – Percy Bysshe Shelley 's verse drama The Cenci , A Tragedy, in Five Acts1819 , is first played privately in England, sponsored by the Shelley Society, at the Grand Theatre, Islington , London, before an audience that includes Robert Browning (for whose birthday it is held), George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde . Oscar Wilde's review of it in Dramatic Review appears on May 15.[ 2] September 9 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is signed.September 18 – The "Symbolist Manifesto " (Le Symbolisme ) is placed in the French newspaper Le Figaro Jean Moréas , who calls Symbolism hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and intended to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal."Fall – Clifford Barnes is taken on as a clerk at the Manhattan book store Arthur Hinds & Co., which will become Barnes & Noble .[ 3]
November – Rudyard Kipling 's Plain Tales from the Hills Lahore Civil and Military Gazette British Raj .
May 15 – Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts , with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published. She is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". After publication of a first collection of her verse in 1890 , she will be seen with Walt Whitman as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets .unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Ethel Carnie Holdsworth , English working class novelist and campaigner (died 1962 )January 14 – Hugh Lofting , English children's writer (died 1947 )February 11 – May Ziadeh , Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator (died 1941 )February 13 – Ricardo Güiraldes , Argentinian novelist and poet (died 1927 )March 1 – Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian poet and artist (died 1980 )March 30 – Frances Cornford (née Darwin, FCC), English poet (died 1960 )April 1 – Brita von Horn , Swedish dramatist, novelist and theatre director (died 1983 )April 15 – Nikolay Gumilyov , Russian Acmeist poet (executed 1921 )May 2 – Gottfried Benn , German poet and essayist (died 1956 )May 16 – Vladislav Khodasevich , Russian poet and critic (died 1939 )June 11 – Emma L. Brock , American children's author and illustrator (died 1974 )[ 7] June 26 – Donar Munteanu , Romanian poet and magistrate (died 1972 )July 16 – Pierre Benoît , French novelist (died 1962 )July 22 – Hella Wuolijoki , Estonian-born Finnish writer (died 1954 )July 24 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎), Japanese novelist (died 1965 )September 8 – Siegfried Sassoon , English poet and memoirist (died 1967 )September 10 – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), poet, novelist and essayist (died 1961 )September 20 – Charles Williams , English poet, novelist, playwright and theologian (died 1945 )October 4 – Lennox Robinson , Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer (died 1958 )October 25 – Karl Polanyi (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (died 1964 )November 1 – Hermann Broch , Austrian Modernist writer (died 1951 )November 21 – Harold Nicolson , English author (died 1968 )November 29 – Thomas Burke , English novelist and story writer (died 1945 )December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane , American journalist and libertarian (died 1968 )Victor Llona , Peruvian-born translator (died 1953 )
Deaths
January 25 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna , Chilean historian (born 1831 )[ 8] March 17 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel , French publisher (born 1814 )[ 9] March 27 – Sir Henry Taylor , English dramatist, poet and public official (born 1800 )[ 10] April 9 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel , German poet and novelist (born 1826 )April 13 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint , Dutch novelist (born 1812 )[ 11] May 4 – Eliza Lanesford Cushing , American Canadian dramatist, short story writer, and editor (born 1794 )May 15 – Emily Dickinson , American poet (born 1830 )[ 12] May 17 – Erskine May , English constitutional theorist (born 1815 )June 14 – Alexander Ostrovsky , Russian dramatist (born 1823 )July 9 – Roger Edwards , minister and writer (born 1811 )[ 13] July 16 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (born 1821 )July 21 – Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker , German historian (born 1811 )August 9 – Samuel Ferguson , Irish poet and antiquary (born 1810 )September 25 – Hannah T. King , British-born American writer and pioneer (born 1808 )October 21 – José Hernández , Argentine poet (born 1834 )October 22 – Matilda Jane Evans , English-born Australian novelist (born 1827 )November 21 – Johannes Scherr , German novelist and critic (born 1817 )November 22 – Mary Boykin Chesnut , American diarist (born 1823 )[ 14] December 12 – Johan Nicolai Madvig , Danish philologist (born 1804 )
Awards
References
^ Philip Waller (2008). Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 ISBN 978-0-19-954120-1 ^ "Reviews". ^ Turner, Betty N. (2006). The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies . iUniverse. p. 65. ISBN 9780595374786 ^ Collins, Paul (2009). The Book of William ISBN 978-1-59691-195-6 ^ Benedetti, Jean. (1999). Stanislavski: His Life and Art . Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-52520-1 .
^ "Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography" . World Digital Library . Retrieved 2013-09-19 .^ Thornley, Stew (2004). Six Feet Under: A Graveyard Guide to Minnesota ISBN 0-87351-514-5 .
^ Charles Dudley Warner (2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII . Cosimo, Incorporated. p. 547. ^ Verne, Jules (2017). Robur the conqueror . Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. p. xii. ISBN 9780819577283 ^ public domain : "Taylor, Henry (1800-1886) ". Dictionary of National Biography ^ Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 528. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8 ^ Dickinson, Emily (1995). Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780472105861 ^ Gwilym Thomas Jones (1959). "Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 13 December 2021 . ^ Mary A. DeCredico (1 June 1996). Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life ISBN 978-1-4616-3916-9 ^ Savonarola, Newdigate Prize Poem, Recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford, 30 June 1886, by R. L. Gales.
