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Overview of the events of 1883 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1883 .
Events
The Adventures of Pinocchio , illustration from the first Italian edition
January 13 –
Henrik Ibsen 's play
An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende , 1882) gains its first performance at the
Christiania Theatre .
[1]
February –
Carlo Collodi 's children's story
The Adventures of Pinocchio appears first in Italy complete in book form as Le avventure di Pinocchio .
May 23 –
Robert Louis Stevenson 's children's pirate adventure novel
Treasure Island first appears in book form from
Cassell in London.
June –
Footlights , the
University of Cambridge drama club in England, gives its first performance.
June 4 –
Mihai Eminescu reads his nationalist poem
Doina to an enthusiastic crowd at
Junimea in
Iași .
[2] It is sometimes described as his last work before a mental breakdown later this year. Eminescu's host
Ion Creangă recalls it being composed on the spot,
[3] but some researchers date it back to
1870 .
[4]
June 30 –
October 20 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novel
The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest is serialized in the British magazine
Young Folks as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.
July – The first issue of
Fiamuri Arbërit , an Albanian literary and political magazine, is published from
Cosenza . Managed by
Girolamo de Rada , it promotes
Ottomanism against
Philhellenism .
[5]
August –
Ivan Turgenev dictates his last story, "An end", to
Pauline Viardot (who writes it in French) on his deathbed at
Bougival in France.
[6]
August 29 –
Dunfermline Carnegie Library , the first
Carnegie library , opens in
Andrew Carnegie 's home town,
Dunfermline , Scotland.
October 3 –
9 – Turgenev's body is returned by train from Paris to
Saint Petersburg with crowds turning out to honor him.
[6]
December 27 –
28 – The
Modern Language Association of America holds its first meeting.
Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Alberto Gerchunoff , Argentine writer (died
1949 )
January 6 –
Kahlil Gibran , Lebanese-born poet and novelist writing in Arabic and English (died
1931 )
January 10 –
Aleksei Tolstoy , Russian writer (died
1945 )
[9]
January 20 –
Forrest Wilson , American journalist and author (died
1942 )
January 21 –
Olav Aukrust , Norwegian poet and teacher (died
1929 )
February 8 –
Joseph Schumpeter , Austrian/American political economist (died
1950 )
February 15 –
Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died
1959 )
February 16 –
Elizabeth Craig , British writer (died
[1980 )
February 20 –
Naoya Shiga , Japanese novelist (died
1971 )
March 2 (February 18
O.S. ) –
Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek novelist (died
1957 )
March 9 –
Umberto Saba , Italian poet and novelist (died
1957 )
March 17 –
Urmuz , Romanian short prose writer (died
1923 )
March 27 (March 15
O.S. ) –
Marie Under , Estonian poet (died
1980 )
April 18 –
Aleksanteri Aava , Finnish poet (died
1956 )
April 27 –
Hubert Harrison , African-American writer, critic, and activist (died
1927 )
[10]
April 30 –
Jaroslav Hašek , Czech novelist (died
1923 )
[11]
June 3 –
Franz Kafka , Czech novelist writing in German (died
1924 )
June 4 –
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon , English crime writer (died
1955 )
July 29 –
Porfirio Barba-Jacob , Colombian writer (died
1942 )
September 14 –
Rose Combe , French writer and railway worker (died
1932 )
[12]
September 22 –
Ferenc Oslay ,
Hungarian -
Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (died
1932 )
October 18 –
Helena Boguszewska , Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (died
1978 )
December 13 –
Belle da Costa Greene , American librarian (died
1950 )
[13]
December 23 –
Yoshishige Abe , Japanese philosopher and politician (died
1966 )
December 30 –
Marie Gevers , Belgian novelist writing in French (died
1975 )
unknown date –
May Edginton , English popular novelist (died
1957 )
[14]
Deaths
January 21 –
Anna Eliza Bray , English novelist and travel writer (born
1790 )
March 14 –
Karl Marx , German philosopher (born
1818 )
April 24 –
Jules Sandeau , French novelist (born
1811 )
May 15 –
Mary Elizabeth Mohl ("Clarkey"), English-born literary salonnière (born
1793 )
May 23 –
Cyprian Norwid , Polish poet, dramatist and artist (born
1821 )
June 20 –
Gustave Aimard , French novelist (born
1818 )
June 11 –
Caroline Leigh Gascoigne , English poet, novelist, short story writer (born
1813 )
July 16 –
Edward Backhouse Eastwick , Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (born
1814 )
August 31 –
Levin Schücking , German novelist (born
1814 )
September 2 –
Léon Halévy , French historian and dramatist (born
1802 )
September 3 –
Ivan Turgenev , Russian novelist (born
1818 )
September 10 –
Hendrik Conscience , Flemish novelist (born
1812 )
September 25 –
George Ayliffe Poole , English writer and cleric (born
1809 )
[15]
November 26 –
Sojourner Truth , African American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author (born
1797 )
[16]
December 13 –
Victor de Laprade , French poet and critic (born
1812 )
[17]
unknown date –
Mary S. B. Shindler , American poet (born
1810 )
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