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Overview of the events of 1899 in literature
Overview of the events of 1899 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1899 .
Events
Moscow Art Theatre production of
Uncle Vanya
January 21 – The French actress
Sarah Bernhardt , having taken over management of the Paris theatre she renames the
Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt , opens it in the title rôle of
Victorien Sardou 's
La Tosca . On
May 20 she premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's
Hamlet , with herself in the title rôle.
March 20 –
W. H. Davies , "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump on a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.
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April –
Karl Kraus establishes the radical periodical Die Fackel (The Torch) in Vienna.
April–June –
Rainer Maria Rilke , still an art student at the time, travels to Moscow to meet
Leo Tolstoy .
May–December – The only work of fiction by the British politician
Winston Churchill ,
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania , is serialised in
Macmillan's Magazine .
[2]
May –
Jack London 's first published work, the short story "
A Thousand Deaths ", appears in
The Black Cat ; its acceptance convinces London that he can make a living from literature.
[3]
[4]
May 8 – The
Irish Literary Theatre , founded by
W. B. Yeats ,
Augusta, Lady Gregory ,
George Moore and
Edward Martyn , puts on its first production in Dublin, a version of Yeats' verse drama
The Countess Cathleen .
June 20 – The English writer
Edward Thomas , an Oxford undergraduate at this time, marries Helen Noble at
Fulham
register office .
July 31 –
Arthur Machen 's wife Amy dies after a long illness, an event that has a devastating effect on him.
[5]
September 1 – The
National Theatre in Norway opens with pieces by
Holberg and
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 's 1862 trilogy
Sigurd Slembe .
September – The British Mutoscope and Biograph Company's
King John (a very
short
silent film starring
Herbert Beerbohm Tree ) becomes the first known film based on a Shakespeare play.
November – The oldest surviving Japanese film,
Momijigari , is shot by
Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo. It records the
kabuki actors
Onoe Kikugorō V and
Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play
Momijigari .
Broadway production of
Ben-Hur
November 6 –
William Gillette 's play
Sherlock Holmes , based (with authorisation) on the writings of
Arthur Conan Doyle , opens in New York City with himself in the title rôle.
November 7 (October 26
Old Style ) –
Anton Chekhov 's
Uncle Vanya , a reworking of his
The Wood Demon (1889), receives its Russian metropolitan première at the
Moscow Art Theatre , with
Konstantin Stanislavski directing and playing the rôle of Astrov, and
Olga Knipper as Yeléna.
November 18 –
Leo Tolstoy completes his last novel,
Resurrection («Воскресение», Voskreseniye ), published serially in
Niva .
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December 12 –
Herbert Putnam is appointed
Librarian of Congress in the United States, where he will introduce in practice the
Library of Congress Classification (LCC) scheme.
December – The imprisoned William Sydney Porter's
pseudonym
O. Henry first appears over the
short story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in this month's
McClure's Magazine .
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 17 –
Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway), English novelist (died
1960 )
February 3 –
Lao She , Chinese author (died
1966 )
February 23 –
Erich Kästner , German children's author (died
1974 )
March 8 –
Eric Linklater , Welsh-born Scottish novelist and travel writer (died
1974 )
March 19 –
Aksel Sandemose , Danish novelist (died
1965 )
March 25 –
Jacques Audiberti , French playwright (died
1965 )
April 22 –
Vladimir Nabokov , Russian-born novelist (died
1977 )
May 8 –
Friedrich Hayek , Austrian-born social scientist (died
1992 )
May 18 –
D. Gwenallt Jones , Welsh poet (died
1968 )
May 24
June 7 –
Elizabeth Bowen , Irish-born English novelist and short-story writer (died
1973 )
June 11 –
Yasunari Kawabata , Japanese novelist, short-story writer and
Nobel laureate in Literature (died
1972 )
June 18 –
Eugène Vinaver , Russian-born English literary scholar (died
1979 )
July 1 –
James Lennox Kerr (Peter Dawlish, Gavin Douglas), Scottish novelist and children's writer (died
1963 )
July 8 –
G. B. Edwards ,
Guernsey -born writer (died 1976)
July 11 –
E. B. White , American children's writer and writer on style (died
1985 )
July 21
August 9
August 24
August 27 –
C. S. Forester , Egyptian-born English adventure novelist (died
1966 )
September 30 –
Hendrik Marsman , Dutch poet (died
1940 )
October 19 -
Miguel Ángel Asturias , (died 1974)
November 10 –
Kate Seredy , Hungarian-born American children's writer and illustrator (died
1975 )
November 17 –
Roger Vitrac , French surrealist playwright and poet (died
1952 )
December 9 –
Jean de Brunhoff , French children's author and illustrator (died
1937 )
December 16
December 18 –
Peter Wessel Zapffe , Norwegian philosopher (died
1990 )
Deaths
February 10 –
Archibald Lampman , Canadian poet (born
1861 )
March 16 –
Alexander Balloch Grosart , Scottish literary editor (born
1827 )
May 1 –
Ludwig Büchner , German philosopher (born
1824 )
May 16 –
Francisque Sarcey , French journalist and theater critic (born
1827 )
June 7 –
Augustin Daly , American dramatist and theater manager (born
1838 )
June 30 –
E. D. E. N. Southworth , American novelist (born
1819 )
July 18 –
Horatio Alger, Jr. , American novelist and children's author (born
1832 )
August 27 –
Vendela Hebbe , Swedish journalist and novelist (born
1808 )
August 29 –
Catharine Parr Traill , English-born Canadian author (born
1802 )
October 22 –
Ella H. Brockway Avann , American educator and writer (born
1853 )
October 25 –
Grant Allen , Canadian science writer and novelist (born
1848 )
October 27 –
Florence Marryat , English novelist and entertainer (born
1833 )
November 2 –
Anna Swanwick , English feminist writer (born
1813 )
November 13 –
Arthur Giry , French historian (born
1848 )
December 17 –
Bernard Quaritch , German-born English bibliographer and bookseller (born
1819 )
December 18 –
Bonifaciu Florescu , Romanian polygraph (ventricular hypertrophy, born
1848 )
December 22 –
Dwight L. Moody , American preacher and publisher (born
1837 )
Awards
References
^ Moult, Thomas (1934). W. H. Davies . London: Thornton Butterworth.
^ Providence Public Library (R.I.) (1898).
Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library ... Library. p. 116.
^ Bessom, Harold E. (October 1920).
"The Story of The Black Cat " . The Black Cat . Vol. 25, no. 12. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 2022-11-04 .
^ London, Jack (1911). "
Introduction ". In Umbstaetter, H. D. (ed.). The Red-Hot Dollar and Other Stories from The Black Cat . Boston: L. C. Page & Co. pp. v–ix. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
^ Graf, Susan Johnston (30 March 2015).
Talking to the Gods: Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune . SUNY Press. p. 57.
ISBN
978-1-4384-5555-6 .
^ Wasiolek, Edward (1978).
Tolstoy's Major Fiction . University of Chicago Press. pp. 218–.
ISBN
978-0-226-87398-5 .
^ MacKay, K. L.
"Native American Literature – selected bibliography" . Retrieved 2014-02-21 .
^ Price, Glanville (2000). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe . Wiley-Blackwell. p. 45.
^ Fraser, Hilary (2004).
"Dilke, Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke (1840–1904)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
Oxford University Press . Retrieved 2017-09-02 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^
"Hart Crane | American poet" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 27 July 2021 .
^ Sue Sims; Hilary Clare (2000).
The Encyclopaedia of School Stories: The encyclopaedia of girls' school stories . Ashgate. p. 313.
^ Chase's calendar of events 2021 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months . Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. p. 424.
ISBN
9781641434249 .
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Harold Edgeworth Butler, Arcadia, the Newdigate Prize Poem, 1899 . B. H. Blackwell, 1899