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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880.

Events

April – Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of six 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, which launches his career.^[1]
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.^[2] The rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists".^[3]
May – In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company.^[4]
June 6 – Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow.
October – Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady begins serial publication in Macmillan's Magazine (U.K.) and The Atlantic Monthly (U.S.)
December 15 – First performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands) at the Gaiety Theatre, London.^[5]

New books

Fiction

Henry Adams (anonymously) – Democracy: An American Novel
Rhoda Broughton – Second Thoughts
Wilkie Collins – Jezebel's Daughter
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield – Endymion
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy)
Amelia Edwards – Lord Brackenbury
Evelyn Everett-Green – Tom Tempest's Victory
Theodor Fontane
- Grete Minde
- Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
George Gissing – Workers in the Dawn
Walter T. Gray (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) – A Bad Boy's Diary
Percy Greg – Across the Zodiac
Anna Katharine Green – A Strange Disappearance
Thomas Hardy – The Trumpet-Major
Henry Kendall – Songs from the Mountains
Alexander Kielland – Garman og Worse
Pierre Loti – Le Mariage de Loti (as Rarahu)
Ouida – Moths
Louisa Parr – Adam and Eve
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin – The Golovlyov Family (Господа Головлёвы, Gospoda Golovlyovy)
Anthony Trollope – Ayala's Angel
Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad
Giovanni Verga – Vita dei campi (The Life of the Fields, short stories, including "Cavalleria rusticana" – "Rustic chivalry")
Lew Wallace – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Émile Zola – Nana

Children and young people

Carlo Collodi – The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
Evelyn Everett-Green – Tom Tempest's Victory
Johanna Spyri – Heidi
Jules Verne – The Steam House (La Maison à vapeur)

Drama

Adolphe L'Arronge – The Lonei Household (Haus Lonei)
Augustus Harris and Paul Meritt – The World
Oscar Wilde – Vera; or, The Nihilists (privately printed)

Poetry

Anne Evans (died 1870) – Poems and Music (with a memorial preface by Anne Isabella Thackeray)

Non-fiction

Henry Charlton Bastian – The Brain as an Organ of Mind
James Legge – The Religions of China
Algernon Charles Swinburne – A Study of Shakespeare
Charles Warren – The Temple or the Tomb. Giving further evidence in favour of the authenticity of the present site of the Holy Sepulchre

Births

February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952)
February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimké, African-American playwright and poet (died 1958)
March 1 – Lytton Strachey, English critic and biographer (died 1932)^[6]
March 4 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (died 1946)
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)^[7]
June 10 – Margit Kaffka, Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1918)
June 17 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer (died 1964)^[8]
June 27 – Helen Keller, American writer and lecturer (died 1968)^[9]
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)
August 15 – Anna Rüling, German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died 1953)^[10]
August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and dramatist (died 1918)^[11]
September 12 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956)^[12]
October 4 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and short-story writer (died 1946)^[13]
October 17 – Vasile Cijevschi, Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died 1931)
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)
December 24 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's author (died 1938)^[14]

Deaths

January 12 – Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, German author (born 1805)^[15]
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 2 – Eunice Hale Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (born 1803)
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)^[16]
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)^[17]

Awards

Commander, First Class of the Order of St. Olav – Andreas Munch
Newdigate Prize – Rennell Rodd, "Raleigh"^[18]

References

^ M. Paul Holsinger; Mary Anne Schofield (1992). Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture. Popular Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-87972-556-3.
^ 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.
^ Henry James (15 October 2016). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1. U of Nebraska Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-8032-8827-0.
^ "English first performances". Ibsen.net. 2004-05-12. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006
^ "Sean O'Casey - Irish dramatist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
^ White, Edward (2014), The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-20157-9
^ Nielsen, Kim E. (2007). "The Southern Ties of Helen Keller". Journal of Southern History. 73 (4): 783–806. doi:10.2307/27649568. JSTOR 27649568. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
^ Rowold, Katharina (2011). The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1134625840.
^ Annette Becker. "Apollinaire, Guillaume". International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
^ Evans, Rod L. (2008). "Mencken, H. L. (1880–1956)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 324–325. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n196. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
^ "Birth Announcement". The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist. October 7, 1880.
^ Patricia Hall (1993). Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Pelican Publishing. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0882899084. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hahn-Hahn, Ida, Countess von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 819.
^ Edmund Gosse (1911) Flaubert, Gustave entry in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4
^ Nancy Henry (7 April 2008). The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot. Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-139-46968-5.
^ T. Bose; R. N. Colbeck (1 November 2011). A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres. UBC Press. p. 677. ISBN 978-0-7748-4481-9.

[1] M. Paul Holsinger; Mary Anne Schofield (1992). Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture. Popular Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-87972-556-3.

[2] Urziceanu, Florentina (2005). Titu Maiorescu 1840–1917. Bio-bibliografie selectivă. Craiova: Aman County Library. p. 12.

[3] 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.

[4] Henry James (15 October 2016). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1. U of Nebraska Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-8032-8827-0.

[5] "English first performances". Ibsen.net. 2004-05-12. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[6] S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006

[7] "Sean O'Casey - Irish dramatist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 July 2017.

[8] White, Edward (2014), The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-20157-9

[9] Nielsen, Kim E. (2007). "The Southern Ties of Helen Keller". Journal of Southern History. 73 (4): 783–806. doi:10.2307/27649568. JSTOR 27649568. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2016.

[10] Rowold, Katharina (2011). The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1134625840.

[11] Annette Becker. "Apollinaire, Guillaume". International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

[12] Evans, Rod L. (2008). "Mencken, H. L. (1880–1956)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 324–325. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n196. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.

[13] "Birth Announcement". The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist. October 7, 1880.

[14] Patricia Hall (1993). Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Pelican Publishing. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0882899084. Retrieved September 14, 2018.

[15] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hahn-Hahn, Ida, Countess von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 819.

[16] Edmund Gosse (1911) Flaubert, Gustave entry in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4

[17] Nancy Henry (7 April 2008). The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot. Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-139-46968-5.

[18] T. Bose; R. N. Colbeck (1 November 2011). A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres. UBC Press. p. 677. ISBN 978-0-7748-4481-9.

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