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Overview of the events of 1900 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1900 .
Events May
May 17 – L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chicago , the first of Baum's Oz books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children.June 24 – During the Boxer Rebellion , the Hanlin Academy in Peking , housing "the oldest and richest library in the world", catches fire and is destroyed.[2] June 25 – Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the "Library Cave" or "Cave for Preserving Scriptures", no. 17 of the Mogao Caves in north-west China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.July 1 – Net Book Agreement comes into force in the U.K: publishers will supply booksellers only on condition that they will not retail books at a discounted rate.November 19 – August Strindberg 's To Damascus Till Damaskus , first two parts) receives its première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with August Palme and Harriet Bosse , Strindberg's future wife, in the leading rôles.Ermete Novelli establishes the "Casa di Goldoni", a new theatre, at Rome, in imitation of the Comédie Française .In Austrian Bosnia , Osman Nuri Hadžić issues Behar Bosnian Muslim literary journal, promoting liberal Islam within the Islamic revival movement.[3]
Release of the first film version of Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt playing the title rôle (sic) . New books The first edition original cover of one of the most prominent literary works of the year 1900, L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 9 – Emmanuel D'Astier , French journalist (died 1969 in literature )January 15 – William Heinesen , Faroese writer (died 1991 in literature )January 31 – Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall , English biographer and children's writer (died 1990 in literature )February 4 – Jacques Prévert , French poet (died 1977 )February 19 – Giorgos Seferis , Greek poet (died 1971 )February 22 – Seán Ó Faoláin , Irish short story writer (died 1991 )March 7 – Benn Levy , English playwright and politician (died 1973 )March 15 – Gilberto Freyre , Brazilian author (died 1987 )April 19 – Richard Hughes , English novelist (died 1976 )April 20 – Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor , Romanian anthropologist, ethnographer and children's writer (died 1968 )April 22 – Vyvyan Adams (Watchman), English writer and politician (died 1951 )April 24 – Elizabeth Goudge , English novelist and children's author (died 1984 )May 1 – Ignazio Silone , Italian author and politician (died 1978 )May 6 – Garrett Mattingly , American historian (died 1962 )May 24 – Eduardo De Filippo , Italian author (died 1984 )May 28 – Nan Chauncy , English-born Australian children's writer (died 1970 )June 11 – Leopoldo Marechal , Argentine writer (died 1970 )June 25 – Gerald Drayson Adams , English screenwriter (died 1988 )June 29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French novelist (died 1944 )July 2 – Tyrone Guthrie , English theatrical director (died 1971 )July 18 – Nathalie Sarraute , Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (died 1999 )July 24 – Zelda Fitzgerald , American author (died 1948 )August 10 – Charles Shaw , Australian writer (died 1955 )September 7 – Taylor Caldwell , Anglo-American novelist (died 1985 )September 9 – James Hilton , English novelist (died 1954 )October 16 – Edward Ardizzone , English children's writer and illustrator (died 1979 )October 30 – Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter (died 1995 )November 8 – Margaret Mitchell , American novelist (died 1949 )November 19 – Anna Seghers , German writer (died 1983 )December 8 – Ants Oras , Estonian writer (died 1982 )December 16 – V. S. Pritchett , English short story writer (died 1997 )Deaths January 19 – William Larminie , Irish poet and folklorist (born 1849 )January 20 – Richard Doddridge Blackmore , English novelist (born 1825 )January 25 – Frederick H. Chapin , American author and explorer (born 1852 )January 29 – John Ruskin , English art critic, social thinker and poet (born 1819 )February 6 – Elijah Benamozegh , Italian spiritual writer and rabbi (born 1822 )February 14 – Giovanni Canestrini , Italian scientist, essayist and translator (born 1835 )February 18 – Eugenio Beltrami , Italian mathematician and theorist (born 1835 )February 23 – Ernest Dowson , English poet and novelist (born 1867 )March 11 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand , French mathematics writer (born 1822 )March 30 – David Léon Cahun , French Orientalist and writer (born 1841 )April 12 – James Richard Cocke , American author and hypnotherapist (born 1863 )April 21 – Charles Beecher , American composer, minister and writer (born 1815 )April 23 – Charles Isaac Elton , English historian, politician and writer (born 1839 )April 27 – Francišak Bahuševič , Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer (born 1840 )April 30 – George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll , Scottish politician and writer (born 1823 )May 4 – Hugo Badalić , Croatian writer and scholar (born 1851 )May 20 – André Léo , French novelist and journalist (born 1824 )May 28 – Sir George Grove , English writer and lexicographer on music (born 1820 )June 2 – Clarence Cook , American author and art critic (born 1828 )June 3 – Mary Kingsley , English travel writer and explorer (born 1862 )June 4 – Edwards Amasa Park , American theologian, pastor and writer (born 1808 )June 5 – Stephen Crane , American writer, journalist and poet (born 1871 )June 19 – Salvador Camacho , Colombian economist, politician and writer (born 1827 )July 3 – Fernand Brouez , Belgian editor and founder of La Société Nouvelle (born 1861 )July 22 – Lucius E. Chittenden , American writer and politician (born 1824 )July 29 – Henry Spencer Ashbee , English writer and bibliographer (born 1834 )August 2 – Sydney Robert Bellingham , Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (born 1808 )August 16 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz , Portuguese novelist (born 1845 )August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher and philologist (born 1844 )August 28 – Henry Sidgwick , English philosopher (born 1838 September 18 – Anne Beale , Welsh novelist and poet (born 1816 September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary , American author and prohibitionist (born 1814 )October 13 – Louis Adolphe Cochery , French journalist and politician (born 1819 )October 27 – James Henry Bowker , South African naturalist (born 1822 )November 12 – Thomas Arnold the Younger , English literary scholar (born 1823 )November 16 – Isidore Barthe , French-Canadian journalist and translator (born 1834 )November 27 – David Carnegie , Australian travel writer (born 1871 )November 30 – Oscar Wilde , Irish poet, dramatist and short story writer (born 1854 )[6] December 15 – Charles Cotesworth Beaman , American lawyer and author (born 1840 )December 30 – Henry Ames Blood , American poet, dramatist and historian (born 1836 )December 31 – Oscar Alin , Swedish historian, politician and author (born 1846 )Unknown dates
In literature See also References
^ Tavis, Anna A. (1997). Rilke's Russia: A Cultural Encounter . Northwestern University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-8101-1466-6 ^ Davis, Donald G.; Huanwen, Cheng, Destruction Of Chinese Books in the Peking Siege Of 1900 the original on 2008-09-19, retrieved 2008-10-26 ^ Okey, Robin (2007). Taming Balkan Nationalism. The Habsburg "Civilizing Mission" in Bosnia 1878–1914 . Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press. pp. 168–169, 240. ISBN 978-0-19-921391-7 ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.^ "Arabia: The Cradle of Islam" . World Digital Library . Retrieved 2013-09-21 .^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)" . bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 3 January 2017 .
