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Overview of the events of 1909 in literature
Overview of the events of 1909 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1909 .
Events
January –
T. E. Hulme 's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the
Poets' Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII , as the first examples of
Imagism .
January 15 –
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 's drama La donna è mobile opens at the
Teatro Alfieri ,
Turin .
[1]
February 1 – The first issue appears of La
Nouvelle Revue Française , a
literary magazine founded in Paris by
André Gide , Jacques Copeau, Jean Schlumberger,
Gaston Gallimard , and others.
[2]
February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's
Futurist Manifesto first appears in the French newspaper
Le Figaro .
March 2 –
Katherine Mansfield , while pregnant by another man, marries the singing teacher George Bowden, whom she barely knows. She leaves him the same evening to resume lesbian relations with Ida Baker.
[3]
April
The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama Le Roi bombance (The Feasting King, written 1905) is heckled by the audience and the writer himself.
The German periodical
Die Tat is founded by Ernst Horneffer.
[4]
April 24 – The Metropolitan Library (京师图书馆 , Jīngshī Túshūguǎn ) in
Beijing , predecessor of the
National Library of China , is founded by the
Qing government.
September 6 –
Israel Zangwill 's play
The Melting Pot opens in
New York City .
September 23 –
Gaston Leroux 's novel
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) begins serialization in the Paris newspaper
Le Gaulois .
September 29 –
Franz Kafka 's short story "
The Aeroplanes at Brescia (Die Aeroplane in Brescia)", based on a real event, is published in the Prague newspaper
Bohemia , as the first description of airplanes in German literature.
[5]
November –
E. M. Forster 's
science fiction short story "
The Machine Stops " is published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review .
unknown date – Babelstornið (The Tower of Babel), by
Rasmus Rasmussen , writing as Regin í Líð, becomes the first
Faroese language novel to be published.
[6]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poster by
Oskar Kokoschka advertising the première of his play
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 20 –
Mae Virginia Cowdery , African American poet (died
1953 )
January 18 –
Oskar Davičo , Serbian novelist and poet (died
1989 )
January 29 –
Phoebe Hesketh (Phoebe Rayner), English poet (died
2005 )
February 15 –
Miep Gies (Hermine Santruschitz), Austrian-born biographer (died
2010 )
February 24 –
August Derleth , American anthologist (died
1971 )
March 6 –
Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish aphorist and poet (died
1966 )
March 17 –
Margiad Evans , Anglo-Welsh poet, novelist and illustrator (died
1958 )
March 22 –
Gabrielle Roy , French Canadian author (died
1983 )
March 28 –
Nelson Algren , American novelist (died
1981 )
March 31 –
Robert Brasillach , French author (died
1945 )
April 8 –
John Fante , American novelist (died
1983 )
May 1 –
Yiannis Ritsos , Greek poet (died
1990 )
May 5 –
Miklós Radnóti , Hungarian poet (died
1944 )
May 9 –
Robert Garioch , Scottish poet (died
1981 )
June 6 –
Isaiah Berlin , German-born philosopher (died
1997 )
June 19 –
Osamu Dazai (太宰 治), Japanese author (died
1948 )
June 28 –
Eric Ambler , English spy novelist (died
1998 )
July 1 –
Juan Carlos Onetti , Uruguayan writer (died
1994 )
July 8 –
Petar Šegedin , Croatian diplomat, novelist and essayist (died
1998 )
July 17 –
G. P. Wells , English zoologist, son and co-author of
H. G. Wells (died
1985 )
July 28 –
Malcolm Lowry , English novelist (died
1957 )
July 29 –
Chester Himes , American writer (died
1984 )
July 30 –
C. Northcote Parkinson , English historian and author (died
1993 )
August 3 –
Walter Van Tilburg Clark , American novelist (died
1971 )
August 11 –
Uku Masing , Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (died 1985)
August 19 –
Jerzy Andrzejewski , Polish author (died
1983 )
October 24 –
Sheila Watson (Sheila Doherty), Canadian novelist and critic (died
1998 )
November 12 –
Laxmi Prasad Devkota , Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist (died
1959 )
November 26 –
Eugène Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu), Romanian-born French playwright (died
1994 )
November 27 –
James Agee , American writer (died
1955 )
December 14 –
Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton), Welsh novelist and children's writer writing in English (died
1982 )
December 16 –
Edgar Mittelholzer , Guyanese novelist (suicide
1965 )
Deaths
January 1 –
Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis , American poet, writer, and editor (born
1844 )
January 14 –
William à Beckett , English journalist (born
1844 )
January 22 –
Hattie Tyng Griswold , American author (born
1842 )
February 11 –
Russell Sturgis , American art critic (born
1836 )
March 24 –
John Millington Synge , Irish dramatist and poet (born
1871 )
March 27 (probable) –
John Davidson , Scottish poet (born
1857 )
April 9
April 12 –
Algernon Charles Swinburne , English poet (born
1837 )
April 21 –
Denys Corbet ,
Guernsey poet writing in Guernsey French and English (born
1826 )
April 26 –
Marcus Dods , Scottish theologian (born
1834 )
May 18 –
George Meredith , English novelist and poet (born
1828 )
June 11 –
Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin , American dramatist (born
1853 )
June 24 –
Sarah Orne Jewett , American writer (born
1849 )
[13]
July 8 –
Albert Craig (The Surrey Poet), English cricket writer (born
1850 )
July 9 –
Rosa Nouchette Carey , English children's writer (born
1840 )
[14]
August 15 –
Euclides da Cunha , Brazilian writer, shot (born
1866 )
August 18 –
Theodore Martin , Scottish-born writer (born
1816 )
August 21 –
George Cabot Lodge , American poet (born
1873 )
[15]
August 23 –
Liu E (劉鶚, Liu O), Chinese scholar, entrepreneur and novelist (born
1857 )
August 26 –
George Manville Fenn , English novelist and educationalist (born
1831 )
September 4 –
Clyde Fitch , American playwright (born
1865 )
September 19 –
József Borovnyák , Slovene writer, politician and priest (born
1826 )
October 16 –
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski , Upper Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator (born
1856 )
October 24 –
Henry Charles Lea , American historian (born
1825 )
November 5 –
H. L. Fischer , Pennsylvania German-language writer and translator (born
1822 )
[16]
November 18 –
Renée Vivien , English-born French-language Symbolist poet (born
1877 )
December 14 –
Frederick Greenwood , English novelist and journalist (born
1830 )
Awards
References
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ISBN
9780878171927 .
^
"La Nouvelle Revue française (NRF)" ,
Encyclopædia Britannica , 2010, retrieved 2010-07-21
^ Woods, Joanna (2007).
"Katherine Mansfield, 1888–1923" . New Zealand Notes and Queries . 7 (1).
Victoria University of Wellington : 63–98. Retrieved 2015-12-03 .
^ Ernst Horneffer: Unsere Ziele, in: Die Tat , 1. Jg., Heft 1 (April/1909), p. 1 (German)
^
Wagenbach, Klaus [in German] (1964). Franz Kafka, in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten . Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag. p. 73.
ISBN
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^
Faroese Short Stories . Ardent Media. 1972. p. 7.
^
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Pearson, Sidney.
"Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism" . The Heritage Foundation . Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
^ Baskett, Sam S. (Spring 1976). "Martin Eden: Jack London's Poem of the Mind".
Modern Fiction Studies . 22 (1): 23–36.
JSTOR
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^ Meadowcroft, Charles William. The Place of Eden Phillpotts in English Peasant Drama . University of Pennsylvania, 1924. Page 7.
^
Per Hallström .
"Critical Essay" . Retrieved March 20, 2021 .
^ American Academy of Political and Social Science (1909).
Race Improvement in the United States . American academy of political and social science. p. 175. Retrieved 26 November 2023 .
^ James, Edward T.; Wilson James, Janet; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 274.
ISBN
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^ Crisp, Jane (1989). Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1904): A Bibliography . St. Lucia: Department of English, University of Queensland. p. 2.
ISBN
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^
Adams, Henry Brooks (1911).
The Life of George Cabot Lodge .
^
Earl C. Haag (1988).
A Pennsylvania German Anthology . Susquehanna University Press. p. 68.
ISBN
978-0-945636-00-7 .
^ Katherine Ashley (2004).
Prix Goncourt, 1903-2003: essais critiques (in French). Peter Lang. p. 59.
ISBN
978-3-03910-018-7 .