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Overview of the events of 1871 in literature
Overview of the events of 1871 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1871.
Events
Programme for the opening night of
The Bells
Henry Irving as Mathias in The Bells
January 1 – The children's literary magazine
Young Folks begins publication in the United Kingdom as Our Young Folks' Weekly Budget .
[1]
January –
John Ruskin begins publishing
Fors Clavigera , his originally monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain".
March 18 –
May 28 – The
Paris Commune is influential on the literary figures in the city at the time and far beyond:
Jules Vallès publishes his newspaper Le Cri du Peuple February 22–May 23 (with interruptions).
At the beginning of April,
Victor Hugo moves to Brussels to take care of the family of his son, who has just died, but closely follows events in Paris, on April 21 publishing the poem "Pas de représailles" (No reprisals) and on June 11 writing the poem "Sur une barricade" (On the barricade).
Émile Zola , as a journalist for Le Sémaphore de Marseille , reports the fall of the Commune, and is one of the first reporters to enter the city during Semaine sanglante (Bloody Week, beginning May 21).
October – "Thomas Maitland", i. e.
Robert Williams Buchanan , attacks
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other members of what Buchanan calls the "
Fleshly School " of English poetry in
The Contemporary Review . On December 16 Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in the
Athenaeum .
November 25 – First performance of
The Bells starring
Henry Irving at the
Lyceum Theatre, London ,
[2] the actor's first great success. On the same night, he breaks up permanently with his wife when she criticises his choice of profession.
December – Publication of
George Eliot 's novel
Middlemarch in eight parts commences.
[3]
unknown date –
George Allen and Sons , publishers, predecessors of
Allen & Unwin , is established in London.
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 9 –
Eugène Marais , South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer (died
1936 )
[7]
February 22 –
John Langalibalele Dube , Zulu writer (died
1946 )
February 25 (February 13
OS ) –
Lesya Ukrainka , Ukrainian poet and writer (died
1913 )
February 28 –
Manuel Díaz Rodríguez , Venezuelan writer and politician (died
1927 )
[8]
March 5 –
Rosa Luxemburg , Polish-born German revolutionary socialist (died
1919 )
[9]
March 27 –
Heinrich Mann , German narrator, dramatist and essayist (died
1950 )
June 17 –
James Weldon Johnson , American writer and activist (died
1938 )
May 6 –
Christian Morgenstern , German poet (died
1914 )
May 14 –
Caton Theodorian , Romanian dramatist and novelist (died
1939 )
June 5 –
Nicolae Iorga , Romanian historian, politician, culture critic, poet and playwright (died
1940 )
[10]
July 3 –
W. H. Davies , Welsh poet (died
1940 )
July 10 –
Marcel Proust , French novelist (died
1922 )
August 21 (August 9
OS ) –
Leonid Andreyev , Russian short story writer and playwright (died
1919 )
August 27 –
Theodore Dreiser , American novelist (died
1945 )
September 27 –
Grazia Deledda , Italian writer and Nobel Prize winner (died
1926 )
[11]
October 7 –
Georg Hermann [
de ] , German fiction writer (died
1943 )
October 10 –
Wickham Steed , English journalist, editor and historian (died
1956 )
October 30 –
Paul Valéry , French poet (died
1945 )
November 1 –
Stephen Crane , American novelist (died
1900 )
November 10 –
Winston Churchill , American novelist (died
1947 )
Deaths
January 12 –
Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois , French dramatist (born
1806 )
February 4 –
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau , German travel and gardening writer (born
1785 )
February 9 –
Martha Haines Butt , American novelist (born
1833 )
February 12 –
Alice Cary , American poet (tuberculosis, born
1820 )
[12]
March 17 –
Robert Chambers , Scottish writer and publisher (born
1802 )
March 28 –
Joseph Isidore Samson , French playwright and actor (born
1793 )
July 6 –
Castro Alves , Brazilian poet and playwright (tuberculosis;born
1847 )
[13]
July 31 –
Phoebe Cary , American poet (born
1824 )
July 15 –
Ján Chalupka , Slovak dramatist (born
1791 )
September 16 –
Jan Erazim Vocel , Czech poet, archaeologist, historian and cultural revivalist (born
1803 )
November 2 –
Athalia Schwartz , Danish writer, journalist and educator (born
1821 )
[14]
December 8 –
Thomas Gaspey , English novelist and journalist (born
1788 )
[15]
December 21 –
Luise Aston , German author and feminist (born
1814 )
[16]
References
^ Sheila A. Egoff (1951).
Children's Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century: A Survey and Bibliography . Library Association. p. 23.
^
Rowell, George , ed. (1953). Nineteenth Century Plays .
World's Classics . Oxford University Press.
^ George Eliot (1994).
Middlemarch . Wordsworth Editions. p. 8.
ISBN
978-1-85326-237-1 .
^
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Finkelsteain, David (2021). "The 6d pamphlet that caused an invasion scare". History Scotland . 21 (5): 29–31.
^ Clarke, I. F. (1997).
"Before and After The Battle of Dorking" . Science Fiction Studies . 24 : 33–46.
^ Van Niekerk, H. L. Eugène Marais: Nuwe Feite en Nuwe Inligting 2010 (Eugène Marais: New Facts and New Insights
^ Solé, Carlos A (1989). Latin American writers . New York: Scribner. p. 431.
ISBN
9780684185972 .
^ Wroe, David (18 December 2009).
"Rosa Luxemburg Murder Case Reopened" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 November 2014 .
^ Victor Iova, "Tabel cronologic", in N. Iorga, Istoria lui Mihai Viteazul , Vol. I, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1979, pp. xxvii.
OCLC
6422662
^ Antonio Piromalli, Grazia Deledda , Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1968.
^ Kane, Paul (1995).
Poetry of the American Renaissance . New York: George Braziller. p.
297 .
ISBN
0807613983 .
^ Verity Smith (26 March 1997).
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature . Routledge. p. 185.
ISBN
1-135-31424-1 .
^ Hilden, Adda.
"Athalia Schwartz (1821–1871)" .
Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon (in Danish).
Archived from the original on 2018-03-13. Retrieved 15 August 2018 .
^ Frederick Burwick; Nancy Moore Goslee; Diane Long Hoeveler (30 January 2012).
The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set . John Wiley & Sons. p. 494.
ISBN
978-1-4051-8810-4 .
^
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Wood, James , ed. (1907). "
Aston, Luise ".
The Nuttall Encyclopædia . London and New York: Frederick Warne.