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Overview of the events of 1896 in literature
Overview of the events of 1896 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1896 .
Events
February 11 – While Oscar Wilde is in prison, his play
Salome (written in
1891 ) is premièred in its original French by
Lugné-Poe 's
Théâtre de l'Œuvre company in Paris, perhaps at the
Comédie-Parisienne .
[1]
[2]
March –
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit 's Die Koningin van Skeba , the first
Afrikaans language novel, begins serialization in Ons Klyntji .
[3]
March 3 – Publication begins of the world's first magazine with an orientation to male
homosexuality ,
Der Eigene , by
Adolf Brand in
Berlin .
[4]
March 7 –
Gilbert & Sullivan 's last
operetta
The Grand Duke is premièred in
London at the
Savoy Theatre .
[5]
July 7 –
Charles Thomas Wooldridge is
hanged at
Reading Gaol in England for
uxoricide , inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3.
Oscar Wilde 's
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (
1897 ).
[6]
October 10 –
The New York Times publishes its first book review section, which evolves to become
The New York Times Book Review .
[7]
October 17 –
Anton Chekhov 's play
The Seagull (Чайка, Chayka ) is unsuccessfully premièred at the
Alexandrinsky Theatre in
Saint Petersburg (Russia).
November – The British magazine
The Lady's Realm is first published, edited by
William Henry Wilkins .
December –
Frank Munsey 's
The Argosy publishes its first all adult fiction issue, pioneering the
pulp magazine genre in the United States.
[8]
December 5 –
Connemara Public Library opens in
Madras .
December 10 –
Alfred Jarry 's play
Ubu Roi (first published this Spring in Le Livre d'art ) is premièred by the
Théâtre de l'Œuvre in Paris. The opening word, "Merdre! ", triggers disturbances and the play is not performed again in the author's lifetime.
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 7 –
Arnold Ridley , English dramatist and actor (died
1984 )
[21]
January 9 –
Eleanor Graham , English children's writer and editor (died
1984 )
January 12 –
Nobuko Yoshiya , Japanese romantic novelist (died
1973 )
January 14 –
John Dos Passos , American novelist (died
1970 )
[22]
January 21 –
Guy Gilpatric , American short story writer (suicide
1950 )
February 12 –
Dorothy Frooks , American author and publisher (died
1997 )
February 18 –
André Breton , French Surrealist poet and author (died
1966 )
[23]
March 1 –
Moriz Seeler , German writer, poet, film producer and man of the theatre (died
1942 )
March 10 –
Nancy Cunard , English patron of the arts (died
1965 )
March 22 –
Sigge Stark , born Signe Petersén, Swedish writer (died
1964 )
[24]
April 16 –
Tristan Tzara , Romanian-French poet and essayist (died
1963 )
[25]
April 23 –
Margaret Kennedy , English novelist and playwright (died
1967 )
May 1 –
Mihai Ralea , Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (died
1964 )
May 3 –
Dodie Smith , English novelist and dramatist (died
1990 )
May 9 –
Austin Clarke , Irish poet, playwright and novelist (died
1974 )
May 27 –
Joanna Cannan , English writer of children's pony books and detective novels (died
1961 )
June 6 –
R. C. Sherriff , English dramatist (died
1975 )
[26]
June 18 –
Philip Barry , American playwright (died
1949 )
[27]
July 4 –
Mao Dun , Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (died
1981 )
[28]
July 19 –
A. J. Cronin , Scottish novelist (died
1981 )
[29]
July 25 –
Josephine Tey , Scottish crime writer (died
1952 )
[30]
August 27 –
Kenji Miyazawa , Japanese poet (died
1933 )
August 28 –
Liam O'Flaherty , Irish novelist and short-story writer (died
1984 )
September 4 –
Antonin Artaud , French theatre director (died
1948 )
[31]
September 5 –
Heimito von Doderer , Austrian author (died
1966 )
September 22 –
Uri Zvi Grinberg , Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli poet writing in Yiddish and Hebrew (died
1981 )
[32]
September 24 –
F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (died
1940 )
[33]
October 11 –
Roman Jakobson , Russian linguistic theorist (died
1982 )
October 22 –
José Leitão de Barros , Portuguese playwright and film director (died
1967 )
October 30 –
Ruth Gordon , American actress and screenwriter (died
1985 )
November 1 –
Lawrence Riley , American playwright and screenwriter (died
1974 )
[34]
November 4 –
J. R. Ackerley , English literary editor (died
1967 )
December 23 –
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian novelist (died
1957 )
[35]
December 27 –
Carl Zuckmayer , German writer and playwright (died
1977 )
[36]
December –
Sandu Tudor , Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (died
1962 )
unknown date –
Edith Ditmas , English archivist, historian and writer (died
1986 )
Deaths
January 6 –
Thomas W. Knox , American journalist and author, journalist (born
1835 )
[37]
January 8 –
Paul Verlaine , French poet (born
1844 )
[38]
January 17 –
Lady Llanover , Welsh writer and patron of the arts (born
1802 )
[39]
January 20 –
Graciano López Jaena , Filipino journalist, writer and patriot (born
1856 )
[40]
February 26 –
Arsène Houssaye , French novelist, poet and man of letters (born
1815 )
[41]
March 21 –
Elizabeth Otis Dannelly , American poet (born
1838 )
March 22 –
Ludwig Laistner , German novelist, mythologist and literary historian (born
1845 )
[42]
May 11 –
Henry Cuyler Bunner , American novelist and poet (born
1855 )
May 13 –
Nora Perry , American poet, journalist and children's author (born
1831 )
June 8 –
Jules Simon , French philosopher (born
1814 )
June 22 – Sir
Augustus Harris , French-born English dramatist and theater manager (born
1852 )
[43]
July 1 –
Harriet Beecher Stowe , American novelist (born
1811 )
[44]
July 11 –
Ernst Curtius , German historian (born
1814 )
[45]
July 16 –
Edmond de Goncourt , French critic and founder of
Prix Goncourt (born
1822 )
[46]
July 23 –
Mary Dickens , English memoirist, editor and novelist (born
1838 )
August 17 –
Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), American essayist (born
1833 )
September 23 –
Ivar Aasen , Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (born
1813 )
[47]
October 3 –
William Morris , English poet, novelist and designer (born
1834 )
[48]
October 8 –
George du Maurier , English cartoonist and novelist (born 1834)
[49]
November 23 –
Ichiyō Higuchi , Japanese writer (born
1872 )
[50]
November 26
December 10 –
Alfred Nobel , Swedish founder of the Nobel prizes (born
1833 )
[53]
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