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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1893.
Events
[edit]- January 14–Kate Chopin's short stories "Désirée's Baby"and" A Visit to Avoyelles "appear inVoguemagazine in the United States.
- February/March – The 22-year-oldStephen Cranepays for publication of his first book, theBowerynovellaMaggie: A Girl of the Streets,under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith" inNew York.Coming to be considered a pioneering example of Americanliterary realism,the first trade edition (rewritten) comes out in1896after Crane has attained fame withThe Red Badge of Courage.
- April 19–Oscar Wilde's social comedyA Woman of No Importancereceives its first performance at theHaymarket Theatre,London, withHerbert Beerbohm Tree,Mrs. Bernard BeereandJulia Neilson.
- May 2– Swedish dramatistAugust Strindberg,44, begins a brief marriage with Austrian writerFrida Uhl,21.
- May 17–Maurice Maeterlinck'ssymbolistplayPelléas and Mélisandeis first performed.[1]
- May 27–Arthur Wing Pinero'sproblem playThe Second Mrs Tanquerayis first performed, at theSt. James Theatre,London, withMrs. Patrick Campbellin the title rôle.[2]
- June 14– TheShelley Memorialis inaugurated atUniversity College, Oxford,from which the poet was expelled in1811.It is designed byBasil Champneys,with a reclining nude marble statue ofPercy Bysshe ShelleybyEdward Onslow Ford.
- July –Bangiya Sahitya Parishadis established as "The Bengal Academy of Literature".[3]
- July 1– The first issue ofL'Ère Nouvelleis published inParisby the RomanianGeorge Diamandy.It will have contributions fromMarxisttheoreticians, includingFriedrich Engels,Paul Lafargue,Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea,Georgi Plekhanov,andGeorges Sorel.[4]In literature,L'Ère Nouvellepromotes a blend ofnaturalismas embodied byÉmile Zolaandhistorical materialism.[5]
- October –André Gidebegins his travels in North Africa, where he comes to accept hishomosexuality.
- October 7–Finley Peter Dunneintroduces his characterMr. Dooleyin theChicago Evening Post.
- November 11–Jerome K. JeromefoundsTo-Day,"A weekly magazine-journal", in London.[6]
- November 26–Arthur Conan Doylesurprises the reading public by revealing in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem",published inThe Strand Magazinedated December, that his private detective characterSherlock Holmeshad apparently died at theReichenbach Fallson 4 May 1891. Doyle has stayed in Switzerland for a time this year.
- November 28– TheRaimund Theateropens in Vienna, Austria.[7]
- December –W. B. YeatspublishesThe Celtic Twilight,giving a popular name to theIrish Literary Revival.
- December 16– Establishment, inYorkshire(England), of the Brontë Society, possibly the oldest literary society of this nature, dedicated to establishing what will become theBrontë Parsonage Museum.[8]
- December 20– The first story featuring the private detective characterSexton Blake,"The Missing Millionaire", appears inAlfred Harmsworth's new boys' story paperTheHalfpenny Marvel(London), written by Harry Blyth under the pen-name Hal Meredeth.[9]
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- E. F. Benson–Dodo
- Byron A. Brooks –Earth Revisited
- Rhoda Broughton–A Beginner
- Hall Caine
- Cap'n Davey's Honeymoon(novella)
- The Last Confession(novella)
- The Blind Mother(novella)
- Mary Cholmondeley–Diana Tempest
- Marie Corelli–Barabbas
- Stephen Crane–Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Walter Crane–Columbia's Courtship
- Arthur Conan Doyle–The Refugees
- 'George Egerton' (Mary Dunne) –Keynotes(short stories)
- Edith Escombe–A Tale that is Told
- Anatole France–At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque(La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman–Jane Field
- André Gide
- La tentative amoureuse
- Le voyage d'Urien
- George Gissing–The Odd Women
- Sarah Grand–The Heavenly Twins
- H. Rider Haggard–Montezuma's Daughter
- Beatrice Harraden–Ships That Pass in the Night[10]
- "Two Women of the West" (Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant) –Unveiling a Parallel
- Josef Svatopluk Machar–Magdalena
- Henry Olerich–A Cityless and Countryless World
- Bolesław Prus–The New Woman(Emancypantki;serialization completed)
- Addison Peale Russell–Sub-Coelum
- Flora Annie Steel
- From the Five Rivers(short stories)
- Miss Stuart's Legacy
- August Strindberg–The Defence of a Fool(Le Plaidoyer d'un fou)
- Ivan Vazov–Under the Yoke(Под игото,Pod Igoto)
- Jules Verne
- The Carpathian Castle(Le Château des Carpathes)
- Claudius Bombarnac
- Foundling Mick(P'tit-Bonhomme)
- Lew Wallace–The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
- Stanley J. Weyman–A Gentleman of France[10]
- Émile Zola–Le Docteur Pascal
Children and young people
[edit]- Margaret Marshall Saunders–Beautiful Joe
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Catriona
- Island Nights' Entertainments(three stories)
Drama
[edit]- Rosario de Acuña–La voz de la patria(Pregnant Woman)
- Alexandre BissonandAlbert Carré–Le Veglione (le Bal masqué)
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- The Beaver Coat(Der Biberpelz)
- The Assumption of Hannele(Hanneles Himmelfahrt)
- Herman Heijermans–Dora Kremer
- Maurice Maeterlinck–Pelléas et Mélisande
- George Moore–The Strike at Arlingford
- Arthur Wing Pinero–The Second Mrs Tanqueray
- Arthur Schnitzler–Anatol(published)
- George Bernard Shaw–Mrs. Warren's Profession(written)
- Oscar Wilde
- Salome(first published, in French)
- A Woman of No Importance
Poetry
[edit]- Gabriele D'Annunzio–Odi Navali
- Maryana Marrash–Bint fikr
- Alice Meynell–Poems
- Eric Stenbock–The Shadow of Death: poems, songs, and sonnets
- Francis Thompson–Poems,including "The Hound of Heaven"
Non-fiction
[edit]- Hart's Rulesfor Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford(1st edition)
- Henry James–Essays in London and Elsewhere
- George Panu–Portrete și tipuri parlamentare(Parliamentary Portraits and Types)
- Alois Riegl–Stilfragen:Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik
- William Wynn Westcott–Collectanea Hermetica(start of publication)
Births
[edit]- January 3
- W. N. Hodgson(Edward Melbourne), English war poet (killed in action1916)[11]
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle,French novelist (died1945)
- January 10–Vicente Huidobro,ChileanCreacionismopoet and editor (died1948)
- January 12–Maria Jolas,born Maria McDonald, American-born French literary publisher (died1987)
- January 13–Clark Ashton Smith,American poet and short-story writer (died1961)
- February 11–Nan Shepherd,Scottish novelist and poet (died1981)
- February 26–Dorothy Whipple,English writer of fiction and children's books (died1966)
- March 11–Wanda Gág,American children's author and artist (died1946)
- March 18–Wilfred Owen,English war poet (killed in action1918)
- April 9
- Victor Gollancz,English publisher (died1967)[12]
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan,Indian historian, writer, scholar (died1963)
- April 16–Germaine Guèvremont,Canadian journalist and author (died1968)[13]
- May 6–Margaret Cole(Margaret Postgate), English political writer, biographer and activist (died1980)
- May 14–Louis Verneuil,born Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage, French playwright (suicide1952)
- May 19–H. Bonciu,Romanian novelist, poet and translator (died1950)
- June 13–Dorothy L. Sayers,English writer of detective fiction and translator (died1957)[14]
- July 3–Luca Caragiale,Romanian poet, novelist and translator (died1921)
- July 5–Anthony Berkeley Cox,English crime writer (died1971)[15]
- July 19–Vladimir Mayakovsky,Russian and Soviet poet and playwright (suicide1930)
- July 21–Hans Fallada(Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen), German novelist (died1947)
- August 1–Mihail Celarianu,Romanian poet and novelist (died1985)
- August 14–Francis Dvornik,Czech historian (died1975)
- August 22–Dorothy Parker,American poet, journalist and wit (died1967)
- September 18
- William March,American writer and soldier (died1954)
- Reidar Rye Haugan,American newspaper editor and publisher (died1972)
- September 28–Giannis Skarimpas,Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (died1984)
- October 9–Mário de Andrade,Brazilian writer and photographer (died1945)[16]
- October 14
- May Wedderburn Cannan,English poet (died1973)
- Lois Lenski,American author and illustrator (died1974)[17]
- October 15–Saunders Lewis,English-born Welsh poet, dramatist and critic (died1985)
- October 16–Harry Donenfeld,American pulp fiction publisher (died1965)
- October 26–Miloš Crnjanski,Serbian poet and novelist (died1977)
- November 10–John P. Marquand,American novelist (died1960)[18]
- November 14–Carlo Emilio Gadda,Italian author (died1973)
- December 6–Sylvia Townsend Warner,English novelist and poet (died1978)
- December 29–Vera Brittain,English memoirist, novelist, feminist and pacifist (died1970)
- Unknown date–Samuel Roth,Galician-born American writer and publisher (died1974)
Deaths
[edit]- January 7–Jožef Stefan,Slovenian physicist, mathematician and poet (born1835)
- January 15–Fanny Kemble,English actress (born1809)
- January 22–Kawatake Mokuami( hà trúc mặc a di ), Japanese dramatist (born1816)
- January 23–José Zorrilla,Spanish dramatist and poet (born1817)
- February 10
- Henry Churchill de Mille,American playwright (born1853)
- Alphonse Jolly,French dramatist and librarian (born1810)
- February 13–Ignacio Manuel Altamirano,first modern Mexican novelist (Clemencia) and (El Zarco) (born1834)[19]
- April 6–Charlotte Anley,English didactic novelist and religious writer (born1796)
- April 17–Lucy Larcom,American teacher and author (born1824)[20]
- April 19–John Addington Symonds,English poet and essayist (born1840)
- May 10–Julius Dresser,American writer of the "New Thought" movement (born1838)[21]
- June 11–H. B. Goodwin,American novelist, poet and educator (born1827)
- June 14–Jakob Frohschammer,German theologian and philosopher (born1821)
- July 6–Guy de Maupassant,French novelist and short story writer (born1850)
- August 12–Edward Bruce Hamley,English military writer, general and politician (born1824)
- August 31–Lucy Hamilton Hooper,American poet, journalist, editor, playwright, and translator (born1835)
- September 4–Francis Adams,Maltese-born English political writer, poet and novelist (born1862)[22]
- October 7–William Smith,English lexicographer (born1813)
- November 12–Jemima von Tautphoeus,English-born novelist (born1807)
- December 2–Charlotte Maria Tucker,English children's writer (born1821)
- December 25
- Ivan Broz,Croatian linguist and literary historian (born1852)[23]
- Emily Sarah Holt,English novelist (born1836)
Awards
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