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Overview of the events of 1880 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1880 .
Events April – Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola 's home, including Guy de Maupassant 's first, Boule de Suif
April 20 (O. S. : April 8) – At the Romanian Academy , Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet , adopted by a commission also comprising George Bariț and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu .[1] rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists".[2] October – Henry James 's novel The Portrait of a Lady Macmillan's Magazine The Atlantic Monthly
December 15 – First performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society Quicksands ) at the Gaiety Theatre, London .[3] Karl May begins publishing his Orient Cycle in Deutschen Hausschatz Deadly Dust: Ein Abenteuer aus dem nordamerikanischen Westen In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company . New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (died 1952 )February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimké , African-American playwright and poet (died 1958 )March 13 – Frank Thiess , German writer (died 1977 )March 21 – E. H. Young , English novelist (died 1949 )March 30 – Seán O'Casey , Irish dramatist (died 1964 )[4] June 10 – Margit Kaffka , Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1918 )June 17 – Carl Van Vechten , American writer (died 1964 )July 4 – Anne Beffort , Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died 1966 )July 10 – Greye La Spina , American writer (died 1969 )August 5 – Ruth Sawyer , American children's writer and novelist (died 1970 )September 12 – H. L. Mencken , American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956 )October 18 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died 1940 )November 1 – Grantland Rice , American sports writer (died 1954 )November 6 – Robert Musil , Austrian novelist (died 1942 )November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died 1960 )November 29 – N. D. Cocea , Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died 1949 )Deaths February 12 – Karl Eduard von Holtei , German poet and dramatist (born 1798 )February 17 – James Lenox , American bibliophile (born 1800 )April 9 – Louis Edmond Duranty , French novelist and critic (born 1833 )April 16 – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy , Irish writer and barrister (born 1819 )April 18 – Costache Aristia , Wallachian translator, poet, dramatist and actor (born 1800 )May 5 – Andrei Mocioni , Hungarian-Romanian journalist and literary patron (born 1812 )May 6 – Ivan Surikov , Russian poet (born 1841 )May 8 – Gustave Flaubert , French novelist (born 1821 )May 30 – James Planché , English dramatist (born 1796 )June 7 – Karl Christian Planck , German philosopher (born 1819 )July 7 – Lydia Maria Child , American writer and abolitionist (born 1802 )July 12 – Tom Taylor , English dramatist and journalist (born 1817 )September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury , English novelist and woman of letters (born 1812 )December 22 – George Eliot (Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born 1819 )Awards In literature References
^ Urziceanu, Florentina (2005). Titu Maiorescu 1840–1917. Bio-bibliografie selectivă . Craiova: Aman County Library. p. 12. ^ Ivașcu, George (1973). "Titu Maiorescu". In Cioculescu, Șerban; Papadima, Ovidiu; Piru, Alexandru (eds.). Istoria literaturii române. III: Epoca marilor clasici . Bucharest: Editura Academiei. pp. 95–99, 129.^ "English first performances" . Ibsen.net . 2004-05-12. Retrieved 2013-02-08 .^ "Sean O'Casey - Irish dramatist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 7 July 2017 .
