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Overview of the events of 1887 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1887.
- February –
Oscar Wilde publishes "
The Canterville Ghost", his first
short story, in
The Court and Society Review.
[1]
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March 30 –
Théâtre Libre, established by
André Antoine to promote
naturalism in theatre, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble.
[2]
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April 22 –
Syracuse University in New York State purchases the
Ranke Library from the estate of historian
Leopold von Ranke, outbidding the
Prussian government.
- November –
Arthur Conan Doyle's first
detective novel,
A Study in Scarlet, is published in
Beeton's Christmas Annual by
Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective
Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler
Dr. Watson (illustrated by
D. H. Friston).
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December 5 – The
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect.
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December 15 – The Romanian literary magazine Revista Nouă is launched in
Bucharest by
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who answers a request made by
Ioan Bianu,
Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea,
Alexandru Vlahuță and others. The first issue, illustrated by
George Demetrescu Mirea, hosts Delavrancea's Hagi Tudose and
Petre Ispirescu's Sarea în bucate
[3] (a
localized folkloric version of the
King Leir myth).
[4]
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Children and young people
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January 2 –
Dmitrii Milev, Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (died
1937)
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January 7 –
Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (died
1953)
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January 10 –
Robinson Jeffers, American poet (died
1962)
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January 22 –
Helen Hoyt, American poet (died
1972)
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February 1 –
Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (died
1947)
[10]
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February 3 –
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (died of overdose
1914)
[11]
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February 4 –
Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer (died
1955)
[12]
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February 11 –
John van Melle, South African writer (died
1953)
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February 20 –
Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (died
1980)
[13]
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March 9 –
Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (died
1967)
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March 14 –
Sylvia Beach (Nancy Woodbridge Beach), American publisher and memoirist (died
1962)
[14]
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May 15 –
Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and translator (died
1959)
[15]
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May 31 –
Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer and
Nobel Prize laureate (died
1975)
[16]
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June 2 –
Orrick Glenday Johns, American poet and playwright (died
1946)
[17]
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June 25 –
George Abbott, American playwright, director and screenwriter (died
1995)
[18]
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July 1 –
Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (died
1981)
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July 6 –
Walter Flex, German war writer (died
1917)
[19]
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August 3 –
Rupert Brooke, English poet (died
1915)
[20]
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August 17 –
Marcus Garvey, African American publisher, entrepreneur and
Pan Africanist (died
1940)
[21]
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August 28 –
István Kühár,
Prekmurje Slovene poet, writer and politician (died
1922)
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September 1 –
Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss-born French writer (died
1961)
[22]
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September 8 –
Constantin Beldie, Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (died
1954)
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September 26 –
Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (died
1958)
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October 1 –
Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (died
1919)
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October 22 –
John Reed, American journalist and poet (died
1920)
[23]
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November 10 –
Arnold Zweig, German novelist (died
1968)
[24]
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December 15 –
A. de Herz, Romanian playwright and journalist (died
1936)
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February 10 –
Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), English novelist (born
1814)
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February 11 –
François Laurent, Belgian historian (born
1810)
[25]
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February 19 –
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch-born writer (born
1820)
[26]
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February 21 –
Elizabeth Caroline Gray, historian and travel author (born
1800)
[27]
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March 20 –
Pavel Annenkov, Russian critic and memoirist (born
1813)
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April 23 –
John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet and folk song collector (born
1832)
[28]
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May 4 –
William Murdoch, Scottish-born Canadian poet (born
1823)
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May 5 –
James Grant, Scottish novelist and historian (born
1822)
[29]
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August 20 –
Jules Laforgue, French poet (born
1860)
[30]
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August 25 –
Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (born
1825)
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September 14 –
Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German novelist, poet, playwright and art theorist (born
1807)
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September 27 –
Mikalojus Akelaitis, Lithuanian writer, linguist and publicist (born
1829)
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October 12 –
Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet (born
1826)
[31]
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November 2 –
Alfred Domett, English-born New Zealand poet and politician (born
1811)
[32]
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November 19 –
Emma Lazarus, American poet (born
1849)
[33]
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December 5 –
Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born
1804)
[34]
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^ Oscar Wilde (16 February 2021).
The Canterville Ghost Annotated. Independently Published.
ISBN
9798709933033.
Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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^ Claude Schumacher; John Northam; Glynne W. Wickham (26 September 1996).
Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918. Cambridge University Press. p. 301.
ISBN
978-0-521-23014-8.
Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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^
Sperantia, Eugeniu (1967). "Reviste de altădată: Revista Nouă". Steaua (in Romanian) (1): 48–49.
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^ Cernătescu, Radu (2013).
"Shakespeare și colindele românilor".
România Literară (in Romanian) (50).
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
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^ Ernest Franklin Bozman (1967).
Everyman's Encyclopaedia. Dent. p. 11.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Westcott, Kathryn (2011-04-09).
"HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?".
BBC News.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
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^
The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel. Macmillan International Higher Education. 1 April 1983. p. 148.
ISBN
978-1-349-17060-9.
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^ Boston Public Library (1892).
Works of Fiction in the French Language: Together with Translations from the French, in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston. The Trustees. p. 56.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Annetta Gertrude Dresser (1895).
The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby: With Selections from His Manuscripts and a Sketch of His Life. G. H. Ellis. p. 5.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Lesley Henderson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1990).
Twentieth-century Romance and Historical Writers. St. James Press. p. 486.
ISBN
978-0-912289-97-7.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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^ Georg Trakl; Robin Skelton (1994).
Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems. Broken Jaw Press. p. 9.
ISBN
978-0-921411-22-2.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Mary R. Reichardt (2001).
Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 193.
ISBN
978-0-313-31147-5.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Peter Ebert (1999).
In this Theatre of Man's Life: The Biography of Carl Ebert. Book Guild. p. 1.
ISBN
978-1-85776-347-8.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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^ Bruce Kellner (1988).
A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example. Greenwood Press. p. 153.
ISBN
978-0-313-25078-1.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Robert B. Hollander (1962).
A Textual and Bibliographical Study of the Poems of Edwin Muir. Columbia University. p. 176.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Bernard S. Schlessinger; June H. Schlessinger (1991).
The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990. Oryx Press. p. 74.
ISBN
978-0-89774-599-4.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ William Stanley Braithwaite (1917).
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913-29 and Yearbook of American Poetry. G. Sully. p. 398.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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^ Donald W. Whisenhunt (1997).
Encyclopedia USA: Abbe, Robert-Alexander, Robert Evans. Academic International Press. pp. 4–5.
ISBN
978-0-87569-076-6.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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^ Tim Cross (1989).
The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights. University of Iowa Press. p. 185.
ISBN
978-0-87745-264-5.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ John Lehmann (1980).
Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 20.
ISBN
978-0-297-77757-1.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Marcus Garvey; Robert A. Hill (17 August 1987).
Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. University of California Press. p. 35.
ISBN
978-0-520-06265-8.
Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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^ John Flower (17 January 2013).
Historical Dictionary of French Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 118.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7945-4.
Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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^
New Times. "Trud.". September 1987. p. 28.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Irene Harand (1937).
His Struggle (an Answer to Hitler). Artcraft Press. p. 240.
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^
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911).
"Laurent, François" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 284; line four.
...until his death on the 11th of February 1887
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^ Frank Northen Magill (1958).
Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature. Salem Press. p. 777.
Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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^ Boase, Frederic (1892).
"Gray, Rev. John Hamilton". Modern English Biography. Vol. 1.
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^ David Gwenallt Jones.
"Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet".
Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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^
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public domain: Watkins, Morgan George (1890). "
Grant, James (1822-1887)". In
Stephen, Leslie;
Lee, Sidney (eds.).
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 391–392.
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^ St James Press; Anthony Levi (1992).
Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present. St. James Press. p. 345.
ISBN
978-1-55862-086-5.
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^ August Nemo; Dinah Craik (1 July 2019).
Essential Novelists - Dinah Craik: The Ideals of English Middle-class Life. Tacet Books. p. 3.
ISBN
978-85-7777-325-1.
Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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^ Claudia Orange (21 December 2015).
The Story of a Treaty. Bridget Williams Books. p. 269.
ISBN
978-1-927131-34-3.
Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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^ Emma Lazarus (1888).
The Poems of Emma Lazarus. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 1.
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^ Claudia L. Bushman (1997).
Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah. Utah State University Press. p. 39.
ISBN
978-0-87421-233-4.
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