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Overview of the events of 1894 in literature
Overview of the events of 1894 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1894 .
Events
February –
Oscar Wilde 's play
Salome is first published in English, with illustrations by
Aubrey Beardsley .
February 15 – French anarchist
Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich , a fictionalised version of which appears in
Joseph Conrad 's novel
The Secret Agent (
1907 ).
Early Spring –
Mary Antin emigrates from White Russia (
Belarus ) to the United States with her mother.
April –
The Yellow Book imprint, edited by
Henry Harland , begins publication by
John Lane and
Elkin Mathews –
The Bodley Head – in London.
April 21 –
George Bernard Shaw 's play
Arms and the Man is premièred at the
Avenue Theatre in London.
[1]
May – The Scottish writer
William Sharp publishes Pharais , his first novel under the
pseudonym Fiona MacLeod.
June – The German novelist
Hermann Hesse begins an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at a factory in
Calw .
August 15 –
A. E. Waite starts to publish and edit an occult periodical, The Unknown World .
October –
Lafcadio Hearn begins work as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle in Japan.
November 8 –
Robert Frost 's first poem, "My Butterfly" appears in The New York Independent , which pays him $15.
December
December 22 –
Claude Debussy 's
symphonic poem
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , a free interpretation of
Stéphane Mallarmé 's 1876 poem, "L'Après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
Aurora Nilsson , Swedish writer (died
1972 )
January 22 –
Charles Langbridge Morgan , English novelist and dramatist (died
1958 )
[6]
February 6 –
Eric Partridge , New Zealand/British lexicographer (died
1979 )
[7]
March 14 –
Nichita Smochină , Transnistrian Romanian ethnographer and journalist (died
1980 )
March 17 –
Paul Green , American novelist and
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (died
1981 )
[8]
March 23 –
Mark Slonim , Russian literary historian and critic (died
1976 )
[9]
April 6 –
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer , English children's writer (died
1969 )
[10]
April 7 –
A. A. Thomson , English cricket and travel writer (died
1968 )
May 1 –
Elizabeth Johanna Bosman , South African author who wrote under the pen name Marie Linde (d.
1963 )
[11]
May 27
June 14 –
W. W. E. Ross , Canadian geophysicist and
Imagist poet (died
1966 )
June 15 –
Trygve Gulbranssen , Norwegian novelist, businessman and journalist (died
1962 )
June 28 –
Allardyce Nicoll , British literary scholar (died
1976 )
July 8 –
Claude-Henri Grignon , Canadian novelist, journalist and politician (died
1976 )
July 9 –
Phelps Putnam , American poet (died
1948 )
July 18 –
Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (died
1940 )
July 26 –
Aldous Huxley , English novelist and poet (died
1963 )
[12]
July 30 –
Păstorel Teodoreanu , Romanian poet and satirist (died
1964 )
August 31 –
Albert Facey , Australian autobiographer (died
1982 )
September 6 –
Howard Pease , American maritime adventure novelist (died
1974 )
September 19 –
Rachel Field , American author and poet (died
1942 )
[13]
September 23 –
Momčilo Nastasijević , Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (died
1938 )
October 4 –
Frans G. Bengtsson , Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer (died
1954 )
October 9 –
Agnes von Krusenstjerna , Swedish writer (died
1940 )
October 14 –
E. E. Cummings , American poet (died
1962 )
[14]
October 18 –
H. L. Davis , American fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and poet (died
1960 )
October 26 –
Eugene Jolas , American writer, literary translator and critic (died
1952 )
December 8 –
James Thurber , American cartoonist and humorous writer (died
1961 )
December 26
December 31 –
Hong Shen (洪深), Chinese dramatist (died
1955 )
Deaths
January 7 –
Sophia Alice Callahan , American Muscogee novelist and teacher (born
1868 )
February 8 –
R. M. Ballantyne , Scottish novelist for youth (born
1825 )
[15]
April 8
April 12 –
Ludwig Pfau , German poet, journalist, and revolutionary (born
1821 )
April 14 –
Adolf Friedrich von Schack , German poet, literary historian and art collector (born
1815 )
[18]
April 29 –
Augusta Theodosia Drane , English religious writer and biographer (born
1823 )
[19]
May 6 –
Fanny Murdaugh Downing , American author and poet (born
1831 )
May 7
May 19 –
Caroline M. Sawyer , American poet, writer, and editor (born
1812 )
May 20 –
Edmund Yates , Scottish novelist and dramatist (born
1831 )
[20]
June 5 –
Edward Capern , English poet (born
1819 )
[21]
July 30 –
Walter Pater , English essayist, critic and novelist (born
1839 )
[22]
August 6 –
Otto Müller , German novelist (born
1816 )
[23]
August 10 –
Cynthia Roberts Gorton , American poet and author (born
1826 )
[24]
August 25 –
Celia Laighton Thaxter , American author (born
1835 )
October 8 –
Oliver Wendell Holmes , American poet and physician (born
1809 )
[25]
October 20 –
James Anthony Froude , English historian, novelist and biographer (born
1818 )
[26]
December 3 –
Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer (born
1850 )
[27]
December 9 –
Mary Bell Smith , American writer, educator, social reformer (born
1818 )
[28]
December 29 –
Christina Rossetti , English poet (born
1830 )
[29]
Unknown dates
Awards
References
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
"An Alpine Pass on "Ski" " . The Strand Magazine . 8 . London: 657–661. 1894.
^ Draznin, Yaffa Claire (2001). Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day . Contributions in Women's Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 151.
ISBN
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^
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^
Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction . Oxford University Press. p. 85.
ISBN
978-0-19-921489-1 .
^
The Encyclopedia Americana . Americana Corp. 1980. p. 451.
ISBN
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^ Serle, Geoffrey (1988) 'Partridge, Eric Honeywood (1894–1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 11, Melbourne University Press
^
Roper, John Herbert Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. p. 83.
^ (in Italian) Giuseppina Giuliano,
"Mark L'vovič Slonim" ,
Russi in Italia database entry
^
"Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894-1969)" . Literary Heritage West Midlands .
Shropshire County Council . 28 October 2002. Archived from
the original on 24 November 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2018 .
^ De Kock, Sita (1968). Die Bosmans van Suid-Afrika, 1707-1965 (in Afrikaans). Pretoria: Van Schaik. p. 33.
OCLC
814141210 .
^ Sion, Ronald T. (2010).
Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels . McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 2.
ISBN
978-0-7864-4746-6 .
^ Fordyce, Rachel (1978). "Field, Rachel (Lyman)". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers . London: Macmillan. p. 445.
ISBN
978-0-33323-414-3 .
^ Maynard Mack (1961). Modern poetry . Prentice-Hall. pp. 364–5.
^ Rennie, Neil (2004). "Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825–1894)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/1232 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Merriam-Webster. 1995. p.
231 .
ISBN
978-0-87779-042-6 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain : "
Scott, Harriet Anne ".
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Schack, Adolf Friedrich, Graf von ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 309–310.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Drane, Augusta Theodosia ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 546.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Yates, Edmund Hodgson ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 907–908.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain : Seccombe, Thomas (1901). "
Capern, Edward ". In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement) . London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^
"Walter Pater" ,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Franz Brümmer (1906), "
Müller, Otto ",
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 52, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 527–529
^ Greasley, Philip A. (8 August 2016).
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination . Indiana University Press. p. 483.
ISBN
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^
"Walter Pater" ,
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^
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
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"Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour" . In
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Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 907–910.
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In Memoriam of Mary Perkins Blair Bell and Smith, 1818-1894 . Minneapolis. pp. 1–.
OCLC
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^
Gosse, Edmund William (1911).
"Rossetti, Christina Georgina" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 23 (11th ed.). pp. 746–747.
^ The Age of Leo the Tenth in Italy. The Newdigate prize poem, 1894 (British Library, Historical Print Editions (March 24, 2011))
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