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Overview of the events of 1889 in literature
Overview of the events of 1889 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1889 .
Events 1st ed. January – H. G. Wells begins to teach science at Henley House School, north London, where his pupils include A. A. Milne , whose father runs the school.[1]
February 12 – Henrik Ibsen 's symbolic drama The Lady from the Sea 1888 ) receives simultaneous first performances in Oslo (in Norwegian ) and Weimar (in German).March 14 – August Strindberg 's naturalistic drama Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)1888 , is first performed, by the Scandinavian Experimental Theater at the University of Copenhagen . His wife Siri von Essen plays the title rôle.April 24 – The Garrick Theatre in London, financed by playwright W. S. Gilbert , opens with a performance of Pinero's The Profligate .May 30 – The English publisher Henry Vizetelly is prosecuted for obscenity for the second time in London; he is again fined and imprisoned for his English translations of Émile Zola 's works.[2] June – Algernon Methuen begins publishing books in England, which is the origin of Methuen Publishing .
August 30 – Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are entertained together at dinner at the Langham Hotel, London , by the American Joseph Marshall Stoddart of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine The Sign of the Four The Picture of Dorian Gray September 3 – Jerome K. Jerome 's comic fictional English travelogue set on the River Thames , Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) Bristol .November – Leo Tolstoy 's novella The Kreutzer Sonata [3]
September 14 – The Volkstheater, Vienna opens with a performance of Der Fleck auf der Ehr (The Stain on Honour) by its Dramaturg , Ludwig Anzengruber , who dies on December 10 from blood poisoning.November – Marcel Proust begins a year's service in the French army, stationed at Coligny Barracks in Orléans .[4]
December 12 – Robert Browning 's book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published on the same day hedies at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice .[5] Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey .unknown dates
The first literary novel in the Maltese language , Anton Manwel Caruana's Ineż Farruġ , is published.[6]
The first of four volumes of Theodore Roosevelt 's The Winning of the West is published in the United States.[7] New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births March 1 – Kanoko Okamoto (岡本かの子, Ohnuki Kano), Japanese novelist and poet (died 1939 )April 7 – Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957 )April 18 – Horace Alexander , English current-affairs writer and ornithologist (died 1989 )May 12 – Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩), Chinese dramatist (died 1962 )June 23 – Anna Akhmatova , Russian poet (died 1966 )July 5 – Jean Cocteau , French writer (died 1963 )July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American author (died 1970 )August 5 – Conrad Aiken , American novelist and poet (died 1973 )August 22 – Peter Frederick Anson , English writer on religion and maritime matters (died 1975 )September 1 – Leonora Eyles , English feminist writer and novelist (died 1960 )September 15 – Claude McKay , Jamaican American writer (died 1948 )September 23 – Walter Lippmann , American writer (died 1974 )September 25
September 26 – Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (died 1976 )October 18 – Fannie Hurst , American novelist (died 1968 )November 12 – DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest ) (died 1981 )Deaths Browning after death.January 3 – James Halliwell-Phillipps , English bibliophile (born 1820 )January 17 – Juan Montalvo , Ecuadorian writer (born 1832 )April 23 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly , French novelist (born 1808 )June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (born 1844 )[9] June 15 – Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (born 1850 )August 5 – Fanny Lewald , German novelist (born 1811 )August 19 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French Symbolist writer (born 1838 )[10] September 10 – Amy Levy , English feminist poet and novelist (suicide, born 1861 )September 23 – Wilkie Collins , English novelist (born 1824 )October 25 – Émile Augier , French dramatist (born 1820 )[11] November 18 – William Allingham , Irish poet (born 1824)December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber , Austrian poet (born 1839 )December 12 – Robert Browning , English poet (born 1812 )[5] December 17 – Thomas Purnell , Welsh-born English drama critic and essayist (born 1834 December 23 – Constance Naden , English poet and philosopher (born 1858 )[12] Awards References
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