From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overview of the events of 1878 in literature
Overview of the events of 1878 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878 .
Events
January 28 –
The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
[1]
June –
Robert Louis Stevenson 's three linked
detective fiction
short stories
The Suicide Club featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in
The London Magazine .
June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist
Joseph Conrad , sets foot on British soil for the first time, at
Lowestoft from the SS Mavis .
July – The
Scottish
poetaster
William McGonagall , a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from
Dundee to
Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before
Queen Victoria .
[2]
August 3 –
Guy de Maupassant writes to
Gustave Flaubert , complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France.
[3]
October – The Peabody Institute Library (later
George Peabody Library ) opens to the public in
Baltimore ,
Maryland .
[4]
December 30 –
Henry Irving 's production of
Hamlet , with himself in the title rôle playing opposite
Ellen Terry as
Ophelia , opens at the
Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management).
[5]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 4 –
A. E. Coppard , English short story writer and poet (died
1957 )
January 6 –
Carl Sandburg , American poet and historian (died
1967 )
January 12 –
Ferenc Molnár (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian playwright and novelist (died
1952 )
March 14 –
Victor Bridges , English novelist, playwright and poet (died
1972 )
April 15 –
Robert Walser , Swiss author and poet writing in German (died
1956 )
June 1 –
John Masefield , English poet (died
1967 )
June 12 –
James Oliver Curwood , American author (died
1927 )
August 2 –
Berta Ruck , Indian-born Welsh
romantic novelist (died
1978 )
[12]
August 10 –
Louis Esson , Scottish-born Australian poet and playwright (died
1943 )
September 20 –
Upton Sinclair , American novelist (died
1968 )
September 22 –
F. J. Harvey Darton English children's literature historian and publisher (died
1936 )
November 25 –
Georg Kaiser , German dramatist (died
1945 )
December 15 –
Hans Carossa , German novelist and poet (died
1956 )
Deaths
January 8 –
Nikolay Nekrasov , Russian poet (born
1821 )
[13]
January 19 –
Ede Szigligeti , Hungarian dramatist (born
1814 )
February 1 –
George Cruikshank , English illustrator (born
1792 )
April 24 –
Heinrich Leo , Prussian historian (born
1799 )
April 25 –
Anna Sewell , English novelist (born
1820 )
May 28 –
Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier , Lithuanian novelist (born
1790 )
July 1 –
Catherine Winkworth , English translator (born
1827 )
[14]
July 17 –
Aleardo Aleardi , Italian poet (born
1812 )
[15]
August 13
November 3 –
Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood), English children's writer
November 17 –
Karl Theodor Keim , German theologian (born
1825 )
November 20 –
William Thomas , Welsh-language poet (born
1832 )
[16]
December 5 –
George Whyte-Melville , Scottish-born novelist (hunting accident, born
1821 )
December 19 –
Bayard Taylor , American poet (born
1825 )
December 31 –
Giulietta Pezzi , Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (born
1810 )
Awards
References
^
"Yale Daily News Historical Archive" . Yale University Library . Retrieved 28 October 2020 .
^ Autobiographical account published in his More Poetic Gems .
^
Barnes, Julian (2009-11-05).
"On We Sail" .
London Review of Books . 31 (21). Retrieved 2015-12-17 .
^
"History" . The George Peabody Library . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 2005. Archived from
the original on 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2013-11-29 .
^
Shearer, Moira (1998). Ellen Terry . Pocket Biographies. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 69.
ISBN
0-7509-1526-9 .
^ Camhi, Jeff (2013).
A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas . New York: Algora Publishing. p. 149.
ISBN
978-0-87586-989-6 . Retrieved 2013-08-31 .
^ Charles Kendall Adams (1899).
Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia: A New Edition . D. Appleton. p. 329.
^ Fontane, Theodor (2011). Hehle, Christine (ed.). Vor dem Sturm. Roman aus dem Winter 1812 auf 13 . Große Brandenburger Ausgabe, Das erzählerische Werk, Bd. 1 und 2 (in German). Berlin.
ISBN
978-3-351-03114-5 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ Gondolo della Riva, Piero (1977). Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne . Vol. I. Société Jules Verne.
^ Horst Frenz (1999).
Literature, 1901-1967 . World Scientific. p. 34.
ISBN
978-981-02-3413-3 .
^ *
Knight, Joseph .
Theatrical Notes , (Lawrence & Bullen: 1893), pp. 206–15
^
"Authors: Ruck, Berta: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia" . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 16 February 2020 .
^ Lebedev, Yu, V. (1990).
"Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseyevich" . Russian Writers. Biobibliographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. Ed. P.A.Nikolayev. Moscow. Prosveshchenye Publishers. Retrieved 1 May 2014 . {{
cite web }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
^
"Catherine Winkworth - The Center For Church Music, Songs and Hymns" . songsandhymns.org . Retrieved 1 September 2017 .
^
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Aleardi, Aleardo" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 538.
^ David Gwenallt Jones (1959).
"Thomas, William (Islwyn;1832-1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 March 2023 .
^ Wilde, Oscar (1878),
Ravenna , archived from
the original on 2015-12-05, retrieved 2015-12-17 .