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Overview of the events of 1880 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880 .
Events
February – The journal
Science is first published in the United States, with financial backing from
Thomas Edison .
[1]
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.
[2]
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 .
[3] The
rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the
deep orthography favored by "Latinists".
[4]
May – In the United States, the publishing business of
Henry Oscar Houghton and
George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as
Houghton, Mifflin and Company .
[5]
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 .
[6]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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 )
[7]
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 )
[8]
June 10 –
Margit Kaffka , Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died
1918 )
June 17 –
Carl Van Vechten , American writer (died
1964 )
[9]
June 27 –
Helen Keller , American writer and lecturer (died
1968 )
[10]
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 )
[11]
August 26 –
Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet and dramatist (died
1918 )
[12]
September 12 –
H. L. Mencken , American journalist and English language scholar (died
1956 )
[13]
October 4 –
Damon Runyon , American journalist and short-story writer (died
1946 )
[14]
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 )
[15]
Deaths
January 12 –
Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn , German author (born
1805 )
[16]
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 )
[17]
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 )
[18]
Awards
References
^ "Thomas A. Edison and the Founding of Science: 1880". Science . 105 (2719): 142–148. 7 February 1947.
Bibcode :
1947Sci...105..142. .
doi :
10.1126/science.105.2719.142 .
PMID
17813458 .
^ 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 .