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Overview of the events of 1863 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1863 .
Events
January 1 – Essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing "Boston Hymn " and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall .January 31 – Jules Verne 's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen Cinq semaines en ballon ) is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris; it will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires February 3 – Mark Twain at the Territorial Enterprise : Samuel Langhorne Clemens, signing a humorous letter to the Territorial Enterprise Virginia City, Nevada , first uses the pen name Mark Twain .June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens , Anthony Trollope , Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts.June 13 – Samuel Butler 's dystopian article "Darwin among the Machines " is published (as by "Cellarius") in The Press Christchurch , New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon 1872 ).December 29 – An estimated 7000 people attend the funeral of William Makepeace Thackeray at Kensington Gardens in London, and nearly 2000 are at his burial in Kensal Green Cemetery .[ 1] Mendele Mocher Sforim publishes his first Yiddish language story, "Dos Kleine Menshele" ("The Little Man"), in the Odessa weekly Kol Mevasser Establishment in Iași of the Romanian Junimea literary society , a group which will exercise a major influence on Romanian culture until the 1910s.
Elvira, or the Love of a Tyrant , a novel by the Neapolitan author Giuseppe Folliero de Luna, becomes the first to be published in the Maltese language , as Elvira Jew Imħabba ta’ Tirann .Publication of The Works of William Shakespeare (the "Cambridge Shakespeare"), edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright , published by Macmillan and printed by Cambridge University Press , begins in Britain.
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 9 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English novelist and playwright (died 1933 )March 3 – Arthur Machen (Arthur Llewellyn Jones), Welsh novelist and short story writer (died 1947 )March 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian poet (died 1938 )April 9 – Henry De Vere Stacpoole , Irish novelist (died 1951 )April 29 – Constantine Cavafy , Greek Alexandrine poet (died 1933 )June 20 – Florence White , English food writer (died 1940 )August 7 – Gene Stratton Porter , American novelist and naturalist (died 1924 )September 1 – Violet Jacob (Violet Kennedy-Erskine), Scottish historical novelist and poet (died 1946 )September 8 – W. W. Jacobs , English short story writer (died 1943 )September 22 – Ferenc Herczeg (Franz Herzog), Hungarian dramatist (died 1954 )November 1 – Arthur Morrison , English writer (died 1945 )November 18 – Richard Dehmel , German poet (died 1920 )November 21 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q.), English novelist and anthologist (died 1944 )December 16 – George Santayana , American novelist and poet (died 1952 )
Deaths
May 13 – August Hahn , German Protestant theologian (born 1792 )July 3 – William Barksdale , American journalist and Confederate general (killed in action, born 1821 [ 8] July 10 – Clement Clarke Moore , American classicist and poet (born 1779 )September 17 – Alfred de Vigny , French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1797 )September 20 – Jacob Grimm , German philologist and fairy-tale author (born 1785 )October 6 – Frances Trollope , English novelist (born 1779 )October 8 – Richard Whately , English theologian and archbishop (born 1787 )December 13 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel , German poet and dramatist (born 1813 )December 17 – Émile Saisset , French philosopher (born 1814 )December 24 – William Makepeace Thackeray , Indian-born English novelist and travel writer (stroke, born 1811 )
Awards
References
^ Victorian Web: Grave of William Makepeace Thackeray . Accessed 8 March 2013^ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review ^ Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel . London: Faber and Faber. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3 There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ Doten, Lizzie. "Poems from the Inner Life " . Retrieved 2015-03-08 . ^ a b Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1863". The People's Chronology . Thomson Gale. ^ William Barksdale biography , Sons of Confederate Veterans
