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Overview of the events of 1879 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1879 .
January 1 –
Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first
Blackwell 's bookshop, in
Oxford .
[1]
January 11 – During construction of an extension to
Birmingham Central Library in England, a fire destroys 50,000 books and the original manuscript of the
Coventry Mystery Plays (including the "
Coventry Carol ").
September – The English critic and poet
Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the
alcoholic poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne into permanent care at his
Putney home.
[2]
September 6 –
Arthur Conan Doyle has his first story, "
The Mystery of Sasassa Valley ", published anonymously in
Chambers's Journal .
October 10 – The collected works of the American poet
Ethel Lynn Beers are published as All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems . The title poem is her
best-known work . On the following day she dies aged 52 at
Orange, New Jersey .
December –
Walter Besant persuades
Thomas Hardy to become a founder-member of The Rabelais Club in
London , which holds a literary dinner once every two months. Other members include the novelists
Henry James ,
Bret Harte ,
Oliver Wendell Holmes and
George du Maurier .
[3]
December 21 – The first production of
Henrik Ibsen 's controversial "modern drama"
A Doll's House takes place at the
Royal Danish Theatre in
Copenhagen , after publication there on
December 4 .
unknown dates
Children and young people
We must come to a final settlement, Torvald. During eight whole years. . . we have never exchanged one serious word about serious things.
Nora, in
Ibsen's
A Doll's House (1879)
January 1 –
E. M. Forster , English novelist and critic (died
1970 )
January 26 –
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern , German-born English historian and political scientist (died
1957 )
February 2 –
I. C. Vissarion , Romanian novelist, dramatist, poet and science writer (died
1951 )
February 13 –
Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay), Indian poet and politician (died
1949 )
February 17 –
Dorothy Canfield Fisher , American activist and novelist (died
1958 )
March 9 –
Agnes Miegel , German author, journalist and poet (died
1964 )
March 14 –
Harold Monro , English poet and promoter of poetry (died
1932 )
March 28 –
Terence MacSwiney , Irish playwright, poet and politician (died on hunger strike
1920 )
April 14 –
James Branch Cabell , American novelist (died
1958 )
May 8 –
Ioan C. Filitti , Romanian historian, political theorist and essayist (died
1945 )
June 4 –
Percy Lubbock , English essayist, critic and biographer (died
1965 )
July 19 –
Ferenc Móra , Hungarian children's writer and editor (died
1934 )
July 20 –
Claude Scudamore Jarvis , English writer, Arabist and naturalist (died
1953 )
August 19 –
Lascăr Vorel , Romanian visual artist and short story writer (died
1918 )
September 19 –
Louis Joseph Vance , American novelist (died
1933 )
October 2 –
Wallace Stevens , American poet (died
1955 )
November 19 –
Mait Metsanurk , Estonian author and playwright (died
1957 )
December 3 –
Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風), Japanese novelist (died
1959 )
December 24 –
Émile Nelligan , French Canadian poet (died
1941 )
[6]
January 16 –
Octave Crémazie , "the father of French Canadian poetry" (born
1827 )
February 28 –
Hortense Allart , French feminist novelist (born
1801 )
[7]
March 3
March 9 –
Mark Prager Lindo , Dutch historian (born
1819 )
March 19 –
Claire Clairmont , English-born diarist and correspondent (born
1798 )
[8]
April 8 –
Anthony Panizzi , Italian-born English librarian (born
1797 )
April 21 –
George Hadfield , English radical author and politician (born
1787 )
April 25 –
Charles Tennyson Turner , English poet (born
1808 )
April 30 –
Sarah Josepha Hale , American novelist and poet (born
1788 )
[9]
June 1 –
Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill , American children's author (born
1799 )
[10]
June 3 –
Frances Ridley Havergal , English religious poet (born
1836 )
[11]
June 19 –
George W. M. Reynolds , English popular novelist (born
1814 )
July 4 –
Sarah Dorsey , American novelist and historian (born
1829 )
July 30 –
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje , Norwegian poet and journalist (born
1818 )
September 20 –
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon , Canadian novelist and poet (born
1829 )
September 23 –
Francis Kilvert , English diarist and cleric (born
1840 )
October 11 –
Ethel Lynn Beers , American poet (born
1827 )
October 13 –
Henry Charles Carey , American economist (born
1793 )
October 28 –
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud , French political economist (born
1799 )
October 31
November 23 –
Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord , American political essayist (born
1810 )
[12]
December 27 –
William Hepworth Dixon , English historian, traveller and journal editor (born
1821 )
[13]
^
"Nos 48–51: Blackwell's Bookshop" . Broad Street, Oxford . 2008. Archived from
the original on 2 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-14 .
^
The Pre-Raphælite Review . Rat & Mole Press. 1977. p. 76.
^ Mark Ford (10 October 2016).
Thomas Hardy . Harvard University Press. p. 188.
ISBN
978-0-674-73789-1 .
^ Mark Ford (10 October 2016).
Thomas Hardy . Harvard University Press. pp. 188–.
ISBN
978-0-674-73789-1 .
^
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^
"Émile Nelligan | Canadian poet" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 17 April 2019 .
^ Hansen, Helynne Hollstein (1998).
Hortense Allart: the woman and the novelist . Lanham, Md:
University Press of America . p. 11.
ISBN
076181213X .
^ McCalman, Iain (2001).
McCalman et al., pp. 454–455 .
ISBN
9780199245437 . Retrieved 14 May 2012 .
^ Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States . New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205.
ISBN
0-19-503186-5
^ Grayson, Sandra M. (2000).
"Tuthill, Louisa Caroline Huggins (1799-1879), author" . American National Biography.
doi :
10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1602710 .
ISBN
978-0-19-860669-7 . Retrieved July 4, 2018 .
^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 152.
ISBN
9780720123302 .
^ Fraser, Jessie Melville (1920).
Bulletin . Vol. 91 (Public domain ed.). The University of South Carolina. p. 1.
^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008).
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J) . Cosimo, Inc. p. 146.
ISBN
978-1-60520-248-8 .
^
Iona: Newdigate Prize Poem , 1879