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Overview of the events of 1897 in literature
Overview of the events of 1897 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1897 .
Events
1st ed.
January–March –
Oscar Wilde , imprisoned in
Reading Gaol in England, writes a letter to his lover,
Lord Alfred Douglas ,
De Profundis .
January 2 – Newspapers in London erroneously report the death of
Mark Twain . It is believed the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
[1]
April–December –
H. G. Wells ' science fiction novel
The War of the Worlds is serialized in
Pearson's Magazine (London).
April 13 – The
Grand Guignol is opened in Paris by
Oscar Méténier .
May 19 – Oscar Wilde is released early this morning from
Pentonville Prison in London, to which he has been transferred from Reading via
Twyford the previous night. This afternoon he visits
Hatchards bookshop briefly before catching an evening train to
Newhaven , on his way to exile on the continent under the pseudonym "Sebastian Melmoth".
May 26
June 22 –
Moscow Art Theatre is formed by
Constantin Stanislavski and
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko .
[4]
July 2 – The
Yorkshire Dialect Society is founded, the oldest such society in England.
July 25 – The writer
Jack London sails to join the
Klondike Gold Rush , where he will write his first successful stories.
October – The first issue of Albina , a Romanian literary and agriculturalist magazine aimed at a peasant readership, is published in
Bucharest by
Ioan Kalinderu ,
George Coșbuc and
Petre Dulfu .
[5]
November 1 – The
Library of Congress Building in Washington, D.C., is opened.
December 28 –
Edmond Rostand 's play
Cyrano de Bergerac opens at the
Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris with the theater's director,
Coquelin aîné , in the title role. The applause lasts for more than an hour.
December 30 – The comedy
The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) , by
Oscar Blumenthal and
Gustav Kadelburg , opens in
Berlin . Decades later it will be turned into a successful musical play.
[6]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 8 –
Dennis Wheatley , English thriller writer (died
1977 )
January 11 –
Bernard DeVoto , American historian (died
1955 )
January 14 –
Wasif Jawhariyyeh , Palestinian Arab diarist, poet and composer (died
1972 )
January 19 –
Natacha Rambova (Winifred Shaughnessy), American dramatist (died
1966 )
January 27 –
Iris Tree , English poet (died
1968 )
March 8 –
Josep Pla , Catalan journalist and writer (died
1981 )
March 17 –
Barbu Solacolu , Romanian poet, translator and economist (died
1976 )
March 23 –
Béla Hamvas , Hungarian philosopher (died
1968 )
May 11 –
Carola Oman , English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer (died
1978 )
June 20 –
Elisabeth Hauptmann , German writer (died
1973 )
July 1 –
Edward Tennant , English poet (killed in action
1916 )
July 14 –
Myroslav Irchan , Ukrainian storywriter and playwright (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at
Sandarmokh
1937 )
[10]
July 15 –
R. J. Yeatman , English humorous author (died
1968 )
July 25 –
Basil Willey , English academic literary critic (died
1978 )
August 11
September 10 –
Georges Bataille , French philosopher, essayist and novelist (died
1962 )
September 25 –
William Faulkner , American novelist (died
1962 )
September 26 –
Michael Joseph , English publisher (died
1958 )
October 3 –
James Hanley , English novelist and dramatist of Irish descent (died
1985 )
October 4 –
Jirō Osaragi (大佛 次郎, Haruhiku Nojiri), Japanese novelist (died
1973 )
October 17 –
Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu , Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (died
1995 )
October 21 –
Alexander Lernet-Holenia , Austrian poet, dramatist and fiction writer (died
1976 )
October 22 –
Marjorie Flack , American children's author (died
1958 )
[12]
November 1 –
Naomi Mitchison , Scottish novelist and poet (died
1999 )
November 5 –
Hilda Vīka , Latvian poet and novelist (died
1963 )
November 7 –
Herman J. Mankiewicz , American screenwriter (died
1953 )
November 8 –
Dorothy Day , American journalist (died
1980 )
November 28 –
Marcus Goodrich , American screenwriter and novelist (died
1991 )
December 3 –
Kate O'Brien , Irish novelist and dramatist (died
1974 )
October 23 –
Arab Shamilov , Kurdish novelist (died
1978 )
December 26 –
Willy Corsari (Wilhelmina Schmidt), Dutch author of detective fiction (died
1998 )
[13]
Deaths
January 24 –
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford , Irish novelist (born
1855 )
[14]
February 4 –
Walter Gregor , Scottish folklorist, linguist and pastor (born
1825 )
[15]
March 2 –
Guillermo Prieto , Mexican novelist, short-story writer and poet (born
1818 )
[16]
March 6 –
E. Cobham Brewer , English lexicographer (born
1810 )
[17]
March 7 –
Harriet Jacobs , African-American writer (born
1813 )
[18]
March 11 –
Henry Drummond , Scottish evangelist and natural historian (born
1851 )
April 26 –
Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai , Indian scholar and dramatist (born
1855 )
May 4 –
Isabella Banks , English poet and novelist (born
1821 )
May 12
June 25 –
Margaret Oliphant , Scottish novelist (born
1828 )
[20]
July 6 –
Henri Meilhac , French dramatist and opera librettist (born
1831 )
July 20 –
Jean Ingelow , English novelist and poet (born
1820 )
[21]
July 28 –
Étienne Vacherot , French philosophical writer (born
1809 )
August 2 –
Adam Asnyk , Polish poet and dramatist (born
1838 )
August 5 –
James Hammond Trumbull , American philologist (born
1821 )
August 8 –
Jacob Burckhardt , Swiss historian (born
1818 )
August 25 –
Léon Gautier , French historian (born
1832 )
September 9
October 23 –
Jessie Catherine Couvreur , Australian novelist (born
1848 )
October 24 –
Francis Turner Palgrave , English anthologist (born
1824 )
[22]
October 27 –
Gheorghe Chițu , Romanian classical scholar, publisher and journalist (born
1828 )
November 15 –
Lucinda Barbour Helm , American author, editor, and activist (born
1839 )
November 29 –
James Legge , Scottish sinologist, missionary and translator (born
1815 )
December 17 –
Alphonse Daudet , French novelist (born
1840 )
[23]
Awards
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