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Overview of the events of 1908 in literature
Overview of the events of 1908 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1908 .
Events
1st ed.
February 15 – The weekly boys'
story paper
The Magnet is first published in
London , containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional
Greyfriars School written by
Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of
Billy Bunter .
March –
Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to
Venice , where in July he publishes himself his first collection of poems,
A Lume Spento (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist
William Brooke Smith , who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until
1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule .
[1]
June 18 –
Mark Twain buys a house in
Redding, Connecticut .
[2]
Summer –
The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre,
Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque
Comus , directed by
Rupert Brooke .
July –
Katherine Mansfield moves to London; she will never return to her native
New Zealand .
September 30 –
Maurice Maeterlinck 's
The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu) is premièred, at
Konstantin Stanislavsky 's
Moscow Art Theatre .
October 3 – The
Avenida Theatre opens on
Buenos Aires '
Avenida de Mayo with a production of
Lope de Vega 's El castigo sin venganza (Justice Without Revenge,
1631 ) directed by
María Guerrero .
November 10 – Opening of a production of
Euripides '
The Bacchae directed by
William Poel in
Gilbert Murray 's verse translation at the
Royal Court Theatre in London under the management of
Harley Granville-Barker with his wife
Lillah McCarthy in the role of
Dionysus .
[3]
November 18 – The release in France of
La Mort du duc de Guise marks the first film with a
screenplay by an eminent man of letters, the playwright
Henri Lavedan ;
[4] it is also directed by two men of the theatre,
Charles Le Bargy and
André Calmettes , and features actors of the
Comédie-Française .
December –
Ford Madox Hueffer begins publication of the
literary magazine
The English Review in London. The first issue contains original work by
Thomas Hardy ,
Henry James ,
Joseph Conrad ,
John Galsworthy and
W. H. Hudson , and begins serialization of
H. G. Wells 's realist semi-autobiographical satirical novel
Tono-Bungay .
December 1 –
Cuala Press , set up at
Churchtown, Dublin , as a
private press independent of the former
Dun Emer Press in connection with the
Irish Literary Revival and
Arts and Crafts movement by
Elizabeth "Lolly" Yeats with editorial support from her brother
W. B. Yeats , produces its first publication, Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and
Lionel Johnson (died 1902).
[5]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
1st ed.
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Cover of
Robert Baden-Powell 's
Scouting for Boys , 1st part
Births
January 9 –
Simone de Beauvoir , French feminist philosopher (died
1986 )
[14]
January 16 –
Pavel Nilin , Soviet novelist and playwright (died
1981 )
January 18 –
Jacob Bronowski , Polish-born scientist and poet (died
1974 )
January 20
February 4 –
Julian Bell , English poet (killed
1937 )
February 11 –
Philip Dunne , American screenwriter, director, and producer (died
1992 )
February 29 –
Dee Brown , American novelist and historian (died
2002 )
March 5 –
Irving Fiske , American playwright, WPA writer, and speaker; co-founder of
Quarry Hill Creative Center (died
1990 ),
[16]
March 6 – Dame
Felicitas Corrigan , English writer and Benedictine nun (died
2003 )
[17]
March 8 –
Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh , Indian-born Bahraini poet (died
2002 )
March 22 –
Louis L'Amour , American author (died
1988 )
April 12 –
Ida Pollock , British romantic novelist (died
2013 )
May 17 –
Frederic Prokosch , American novelist and poet (died
1989 )
May 20 –
Aleksei Arbuzov , Soviet playwright (died
1986 )
May 25 –
Theodore Roethke , American poet (died
1963 )
May 27 –
Peggy Ramsay , born Margaret Venniker, Australian-born British theatrical agent (died
1991 )
May 28 –
Ian Fleming , English espionage novelist (died
1964 )
[18]
June 1 –
Julie Campbell Tatham , American children's writer (died
1999 )
June 14 –
Kathleen Raine , English poet, scholar, and translator (died
2003 )
[19]
June 27 –
João Guimarães Rosa , Brazilian novelist (died
1967 )
June 30
July 7 –
Laurie Fitzhardinge , Australian historian and librarian (died
1993 )
July 10 –
Carl Richard Jacobi , American journalist and author (died
1997 )
July 23 –
Elio Vittorini , Italian author (died
1966 )
August 21 –
M. M. Kaye , Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died
2004 )
[22]
August 23 –
Arthur Adamov , French Absurdist playwright (died
1970 )
August 28
August 31 –
William Saroyan , American writer (d.
1981 )
[23]
September 4 –
Richard Wright , African-American novelist and poet (died
1960 )
September 9 –
Cesare Pavese , Italian poet and novelist (suicide
1950 )
September 15 –
Miško Kranjec , Slovenian writer (died
1983 )
September 17 –
John Creasey , English crime writer (died
1973 )
[24]
October 5 –
Joshua Logan , American stage and film writer and director (died
1988 )
October 13 –
Robert Liddell , English biographer, novelist and poet (died
1992 )
October 17 –
Leon Kalustian , Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist (died
1990 )
October 23 –
Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov , Chechen historian (died
1997 )
October 24 –
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Phyllis Byam Shand), Dominican writer (died
1986 )
October 25 –
Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer (died
2004 )
November 8 –
Zhou Yang , Chinese literary theorist (died
1989 )
November 8 –
Martha Gellhorn , American journalist (suicide
1998 )
[25]
November 9 –
Lucian Boz , Romanian and Australian literary critic (died
2003 )
November 20 –
Alistair Cooke , English-born American journalist (died
2004 )
[26]
November 21 –
Elizabeth George Speare , American children's writer (died
1994 )
November 23 –
Nelson S. Bond , American author, playwright and scriptwriter (died
2006 )
November 28
November 30 –
Buddhadeb Bosu , Bengali poet and writer (died
1974 )
December 14 –
Mária Szepes , Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (died
2007 )
December 22 –
Giovanni Luigi Bonelli , Italian comic book author and writer (died
2001 )
December 25 –
Quentin Crisp , English gay icon, author and raconteur (died
1999 )
Deaths
January 9 –
Wilhelm Busch , German humorist and poet (born
1832 )
January 14 –
Holger Drachmann , Danish poet and dramatist (born
1846 )
[27]
January 18 –
Edmund Clarence Stedman , American poet and critic (born
1833 )
January 25 –
Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), English novelist (born
1839 )
[28]
February 7
February 17 –
Annie Ryder Gracey , American author and missionary (born
1836 )
March 4 –
Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy Key), English historical novelist and children's writer (born
1853 )
March 11 –
Edmondo De Amicis , Italian novelist (born
1846 )
[29]
March 12 –
Susan Marr Spalding , American poet (born
1841 )
[30]
March 19 –
Eduard Zeller , German philosopher (born
1814 )
March 25 –
Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov , Russian poet, dramatist and critic (born
1821 )
March 29
April 20 –
Henry Chadwick , English-born American
baseball writer and historian (born
1824 )
May 7 –
Ludovic Halévy , French playwright and author (born
1834 )
May 23 –
François Coppée , French author, le poète des humbles (born
1842 )
[32]
June 5 –
Jonas Lie , Norwegian writer (born
1944 )
June 16 –
Mary Elizabeth Hawker , Scottish-born English fiction writer (born
1848 )
June 20 –
Eleanor Kirk , American author, publisher (born
1831 )
July 3 –
Joel Chandler Harris , American journalist and author (born
1848 )
July 28 –
Otto Pfleiderer , German theologian (born
1839 )
July 29 –
Estelle M. H. Merrill , American journalist and editor (born
1858 )
[33]
August 4 –
Bronson Howard , American dramatist (born
1842 )
August 10 –
Louise Chandler Moulton , American author and critic (born
1835 )
[34]
August 14 –
Anton Giulio Barrili , Italian novelist (born
1836 )
[35]
September 29 –
Machado de Assis , Brazilian writer (born
1839 )
[36]
November 1 –
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney , American educator, poet, author, and editor (born
1823 )
November 8
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