1878 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878.
Events
[edit ]- January 28 – The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.[1]
- June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories The Suicide Club featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in The London Magazine .
- June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS Mavis.
- July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria.[2]
- August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France.[3]
- October – The Peabody Institute Library (later George Peabody Library) opens to the public in Baltimore, Maryland.[4]
- December 30 – Henry Irving's production of Hamlet , with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management).[5]
- unknown dates
- The Johns Hopkins University Press is established in Baltimore, Maryland, as the University Publication Agency, making it the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States.[6]
- The Remington No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters, is introduced in the United States.[7]
New books
[edit ]Fiction
[edit ]- W. Harrison Ainsworth – Beatrice Tyldesley
- Rebecca Agatha Armour – Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton
- Walter Besant and James Rice – The Monks of Thelema
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon – An Open Verdict
- Ellen Buckingham Mathews (pseudonym Helen Mathers) – Cherry Ripe
- Wilkie Collins – The Haunted Hotel
- Theodor Fontane – Vor dem Sturm (Before the Storm)[8]
- Anna Katharine Green – The Leavenworth Case
- Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native (serialized in Belgravia )
- Henry James
- William Hurrell Mallock
- Margaret Oliphant – The Primrose Path
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – Cousin Bazilio (O Primo Basílio)
- Anne Eliza Smith – Seola
- Robert Louis Stevenson – "The Suicide Club" and "The Rajah's Diamond"
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives
- Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina («Анна Каренина», book publication)
- Anthony Trollope – Is He Popenjoy? (serialization concluded and book publication)
- Émile Zola – Une Page d'amour
Children and young people
[edit ]- Randolph Caldecott – The House that Jack Built
- Hector Malot – Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy)
- Jules Verne – Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (Un Capitaine de quinze ans)[9]
- Evelyn Whitaker – Miss Toosey's Mission. A Tale
Drama
[edit ]- Ion Luca Caragiale – A Stormy Night (O noapte furtunoasă sau Numĕrul 9)
- José Echegaray – En el pilar y en la cruz (The Stake and the Cross)[10]
- W. S. Gilbert – The Ne'er-do-Weel [11]
Poetry
[edit ]Main article: 1878 in poetry
Non-fiction
[edit ]- François Callet – Tantara ny Andriana eto Madagasikara
- Richard Jefferies – The Gamekeeper at Home
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches)
- Robert Louis Stevenson – An Inland Voyage
Births
[edit ]- January 4 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (died 1957)
- January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (died 1967)
- January 12 – Ferenc Molnár (Ferenc Neumann), Hungarian playwright and novelist (died 1952)
- March 14 – Victor Bridges, English novelist, playwright and poet (died 1972)
- April 15 – Robert Walser, Swiss author and poet writing in German (died 1956)
- June 1 – John Masefield, English poet (died 1967)
- June 12 – James Oliver Curwood, American author (died 1927)
- August 2 – Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romantic novelist (died 1978)[12]
- August 10 – Louis Esson, Scottish-born Australian poet and playwright (died 1943)
- September 20 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist (died 1968)
- September 22 – F. J. Harvey Darton English children's literature historian and publisher (died 1936)
- November 25 – Georg Kaiser, German dramatist (died 1945)
- December 15 – Hans Carossa, German novelist and poet (died 1956)
Deaths
[edit ]- January 8 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (born 1821)[13]
- January 19 – Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (born 1814)
- February 1 – George Cruikshank, English illustrator (born 1792)
- April 24 – Heinrich Leo, Prussian historian (born 1799)
- April 25 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (born 1820)
- May 28 – Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier, Lithuanian novelist (born 1790)
- July 1 – Catherine Winkworth, English translator (born 1827)[14]
- July 17 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (born 1812)[15]
- August 13
- George Gilfillan, Scottish poet and author (born 1813)
- Elizabeth Prentiss, American poet and hymnist (born 1818)
- November 3 – Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood), English children's writer
- November 17 – Karl Theodor Keim, German theologian (born 1825)
- November 20 – William Thomas, Welsh-language poet (born 1832)[16]
- December 5 – George Whyte-Melville, Scottish-born novelist (hunting accident, born 1821)
- December 19 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (born 1825)
- December 31 – Giulietta Pezzi, Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (born 1810)
Awards
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "Yale Daily News Historical Archive". Yale University Library. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ Autobiographical account published in his More Poetic Gems.
- ^ Barnes, Julian (2009年11月05日). "On We Sail". London Review of Books . 31 (21). Retrieved 2015年12月17日.
- ^ "History". The George Peabody Library. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 2005. Archived from the original on 2010年06月04日. Retrieved 2013年11月29日.
- ^ Shearer, Moira (1998). Ellen Terry. Pocket Biographies. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 0-7509-1526-9.
- ^ Camhi, Jeff (2013). A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas. New York: Algora Publishing. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-87586-989-6 . Retrieved 2013年08月31日.
- ^ Charles Kendall Adams (1899). Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia: A New Edition. D. Appleton. p. 329.
- ^ Fontane, Theodor (2011). Hehle, Christine (ed.). Vor dem Sturm. Roman aus dem Winter 1812 auf 13. Große Brandenburger Ausgabe, Das erzählerische Werk, Bd. 1 und 2 (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-351-03114-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Gondolo della Riva, Piero (1977). Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne. Vol. I. Société Jules Verne.
- ^ Horst Frenz (1999). Literature, 1901-1967. World Scientific. p. 34. ISBN 978-981-02-3413-3.
- ^ * Knight, Joseph. Theatrical Notes, (Lawrence & Bullen: 1893), pp. 206–15
- ^ "Authors: Ruck, Berta: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Lebedev, Yu, V. (1990). "Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseyevich". Russian Writers. Biobibliographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. Ed. P.A.Nikolayev. Moscow. Prosveshchenye Publishers. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Catherine Winkworth - The Center For Church Music, Songs and Hymns". songsandhymns.org. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aleardi, Aleardo" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 538.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones (1959). "Thomas, William (Islwyn;1832-1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 March 2023.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (1878), Ravenna, archived from the original on 2015年12月05日, retrieved 2015年12月17日.