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Overview of the events of 1896 in literature
Overview of the events of 1896 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1896 .
Events February 11 – While Oscar Wilde is in prison, his play Salome 1891 ) is premièred in its original French by Lugné-Poe 's Théâtre de l'Œuvre company in Paris, perhaps at the Comédie-Parisienne .[1] [2] March – Afrikaans language novel, begins serialization in
Ons Klyntji .
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March 3 – Publication begins of the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality , Der Eigene Adolf Brand in Berlin .[4] October 10 – The New York Times The New York Times Book Review [7] October 17 – Anton Chekhov 's play The Seagull Chayka ) is unsuccessfully premièred at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg (Russia).November – The British magazine The Lady's Realm William Henry Wilkins .
December – Frank Munsey 's The Argosy pulp magazine genre in the United States.[8]
Madras
.December 10 – Alfred Jarry 's play Ubu Roi Le Livre d'art ) is premièred by the Théâtre de l'Œuvre in Paris. The opening word, "Merdre! ", triggers disturbances and the play is not performed again in the author's lifetime.unknown dates
New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 7 – Arnold Ridley , English dramatist and actor (died 1984 )[21] January 9 – Eleanor Graham , English children's writer and editor (died 1984 )January 12 – Nobuko Yoshiya , Japanese romantic novelist (died 1973 )January 14 – John Dos Passos , American novelist (died 1970 )[22] January 21 – Guy Gilpatric , American short story writer (suicide 1950 )February 12 – Dorothy Frooks , American author and publisher (died 1997 )February 18 – André Breton , French Surrealist poet and author (died 1966 )[23] March 1 – Moriz Seeler , German writer, poet, film producer and man of the theatre (died 1942 )March 10 – Nancy Cunard , English patron of the arts (died 1965 )March 22 – Sigge Stark , born Signe Petersén, Swedish writer (died 1964 )[24] April 16 – Tristan Tzara , Romanian-French poet and essayist (died 1963 )[25] April 23 – Margaret Kennedy , English novelist and playwright (died 1967 )May 1 – Mihai Ralea , Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (died 1964 )May 3 – Dodie Smith , English novelist and dramatist (died 1990 )May 9 – Austin Clarke , Irish poet, playwright and novelist (died 1974 )May 27 – Joanna Cannan , English writer of children's pony books and detective novels (died 1961 )June 6 – R. C. Sherriff , English dramatist (died 1975 )[26] June 18 – Philip Barry , American playwright (died 1949 )[27] July 4 – Mao Dun , Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (died 1981 )[28] July 19 – A. J. Cronin , Scottish novelist (died 1981 )[29] July 25 – Josephine Tey , Scottish crime writer (died 1952 )[30] August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa , Japanese poet (died 1933 )August 28 – Liam O'Flaherty , Irish novelist and short-story writer (died 1984 )September 4 – Antonin Artaud , French theatre director (died 1948 )[31] September 5 – Heimito von Doderer , Austrian author (died 1966 )Uri Zvi Grinberg, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli poet writing in Yiddish and Hebrew (died
1981 )
[32] September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (died 1940 )[33] October 11 – Roman Jakobson , Russian linguistic theorist (died 1982 )October 22 – José Leitão de Barros , Portuguese playwright and film director (died 1967 )October 30 – Ruth Gordon , American actress and screenwriter (died 1985 )November 1 – Lawrence Riley , American playwright and screenwriter (died 1974 )[34] November 4 – J. R. Ackerley , English literary editor (died 1967 )December 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian novelist (died 1957 )[35] December 27 – Carl Zuckmayer , German writer and playwright (died 1977 )[36] December – Sandu Tudor , Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (died 1962 )
unknown date – Edith Ditmas , English archivist, historian and writer (died 1986 )Deaths January 6 – Thomas W. Knox , American journalist and author, journalist (born 1835 )[37] January 8 – Paul Verlaine , French poet (born 1844 )[38] Lady Llanover, Welsh writer and patron of the arts (born
1802 )
[39] January 20 – Graciano López Jaena , Filipino journalist, writer and patriot (born 1856 )[40] February 26 – Arsène Houssaye , French novelist, poet and man of letters (born 1815 )[41] March 21 – Elizabeth Otis Dannelly , American poet (born 1838 )March 22 – Ludwig Laistner , German novelist, mythologist and literary historian (born 1845 )[42] May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner , American novelist and poet (born 1855 )May 13 – Nora Perry , American poet, journalist and children's author (born 1831 )June 8 – Jules Simon , French philosopher (born 1814 )June 22 – Sir Augustus Harris , French-born English dramatist and theater manager (born 1852 )[43] July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe , American novelist (born 1811 )[44] July 11 – Ernst Curtius , German historian (born 1814 )[45] July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt , French critic and founder of Prix Goncourt (born 1822 )[46] July 23 – Mary Dickens , English memoirist, editor and novelist (born 1838 )August 17 – Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), American essayist (born 1833 )September 23 – Ivar Aasen , Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (born 1813 )[47] October 3 – William Morris , English poet, novelist and designer (born 1834 )[48] October 8 – George du Maurier , English cartoonist and novelist (born 1834)[49] November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi , Japanese writer (born 1872 )[50] November 26
December 10 – Alfred Nobel , Swedish founder of the Nobel prizes (born 1833 )[53] References
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. January 7, 1896. p. 16.. . ^ Yoder, Robert L. (August 7, 1999). Graciano López Jaena . Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna .
^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Houssaye, Arsène" Encyclopædia Britannica He died on the 26th of February 1896 ^ Eduard Theiner (1982), "Laistner, Ludwig" , Neue Deutsche Biographie ^ "Manager Harris Dead" (PDF) . The New York Times . Retrieved 21 August 2009 .. ^ Massachusetts Historical Society (1897). Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society . . Vol. 01 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 4–5, see page 5. He died in Christiania on the 23rd of September 1896 . . . ^ Nineteenth Century Prose ^ Alfred Henry Miles (1898). Charles Kingsley to James Thomson ^ The Georgia Review
