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Overview of the events of 1871 in literature
Overview of the events of 1871 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1871.
Events Programme for the opening night of The Bells Henry Irving as Mathias in The Bells January 1 – The children's literary magazine Young Folks Our Young Folks' Weekly Budget .[1] January – John Ruskin begins publishing Fors Clavigera
March 18 –May 28 – The Paris Commune is influential on the literary figures in the city at the time and far beyond:
Jules Vallès publishes his newspaper Le Cri du Peuple February 22–May 23 (with interruptions).At the beginning of April, Victor Hugo moves to Brussels to take care of the family of his son, who has just died, but closely follows events in Paris, on April 21 publishing the poem "Pas de représailles" (No reprisals) and on June 11 writing the poem "Sur une barricade" (On the barricade).
Émile Zola , as a journalist for Le Sémaphore de Marseille , reports the fall of the Commune, and is one of the first reporters to enter the city during Semaine sanglante (Bloody Week, beginning May 21).October – "Thomas Maitland", i. e. Athenaeum
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November 25 – First performance of The Bells Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London ,[2] December – Publication of George Eliot 's novel Middlemarch [3]
unknown date – , is established in London.New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 9 – Eugène Marais , South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer (died 1936 )[7] February 22 – John Langalibalele Dube , Zulu writer (died 1946 )February 25 (February 13 OS ) – Lesya Ukrainka , Ukrainian poet and writer (died 1913 )February 28 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez , Venezuelan writer and politician (died 1927 )[8] March 5 – Rosa Luxemburg , Polish-born German revolutionary socialist (died 1919 )[9] March 27 – Heinrich Mann , German narrator, dramatist and essayist (died 1950 )June 17 – James Weldon Johnson , American writer and activist (died 1938 )May 6 – Christian Morgenstern , German poet (died 1914 )May 14 – Caton Theodorian , Romanian dramatist and novelist (died 1939 )June 5 – Nicolae Iorga , Romanian historian, politician, culture critic, poet and playwright (died 1940 )[10] July 3 – W. H. Davies , Welsh poet (died 1940 )July 10 – Marcel Proust , French novelist (died 1922 )August 21 (August 9 OS ) – Leonid Andreyev , Russian short story writer and playwright (died 1919 )August 27 – Theodore Dreiser , American novelist (died 1945 )September 27 – Grazia Deledda , Italian writer and Nobel Prize winner (died 1926 )[11] October 7 – Georg Hermann [de ] , German fiction writer (died 1943 )October 10 – Wickham Steed , English journalist, editor and historian (died 1956 )October 30 – Paul Valéry , French poet (died 1945 )November 1 – Stephen Crane , American novelist (died 1900 )November 10 – Winston Churchill , American novelist (died 1947 )Deaths January 12 – Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois , French dramatist (born 1806 )February 4 – Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau , German travel and gardening writer (born 1785 )February 9 – Martha Haines Butt , American novelist (born 1833 )February 12 – Alice Cary , American poet (tuberculosis, born 1820 )[12] Robert Chambers, Scottish writer and publisher (born
1802 March 28 – Joseph Isidore Samson , French playwright and actor (born 1793 )July 6 – Castro Alves , Brazilian poet and playwright (tuberculosis;born 1847 )[13] July 31 – Phoebe Cary , American poet (born 1824 )July 15 – Ján Chalupka , Slovak dramatist (born 1791 )September 16 – Jan Erazim Vocel , Czech poet, archaeologist, historian and cultural revivalist (born 1803 )November 2 – Athalia Schwartz , Danish writer, journalist and educator (born 1821 )[14] December 8 – Thomas Gaspey , English novelist and journalist (born 1788 )[15] December 21 – Luise Aston , German author and feminist (born 1814 )[16] References
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Aston, Luise". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
