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Overview of the events of 1892 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1892 .
January – The
Schauspielhaus Zürich opens as the Volkstheater am Pfauen , a
music hall .
[1]
January 18 –
Rudyard Kipling marries Caroline Starr Balestier.
[2]
February 22 –
Oscar Wilde 's comedy
Lady Windermere's Fan is premièred at
St James's Theatre in London, starring
Winifred Emery and
Marion Terry .
[3]
April 27 – The magazine
Isis is established by students at the
University of Oxford .
June – Rehearsals for the première of
Oscar Wilde 's play
Salome for inclusion in
Sarah Bernhardt 's London season (in French) are halted when the British
Lord Chamberlain 's licensor of plays prohibits it for including Biblical characters.
July 15 – The
Bibliographical Society is established in London.
[4]
September 12 – The 11-year-old Virginia Stephen, the later novelist
Virginia Woolf , takes a boat trip to
Godrevy Lighthouse on a family holiday in Cornwall.
[5]
October 14 – The first collection of
Arthur Conan Doyle 's
Sherlock Holmes stories from
The Strand Magazine (June 1891–June 1892),
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , is published by
George Newnes in London; it includes Doyle's favourite, "
The Adventure of the Speckled Band ", which was originally published in February.
October 20 (
O. S. : October 8) –
Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș inaugurates Romania's first rural printing press, at
Mușătești .
[6]
November –
The Sewanee Review is established by
William Peterfield Trent ; it will become the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States.
December 9 –
George Bernard Shaw 's first play
Widowers' Houses has its first performance, at the
Royalty Theatre in London under the auspices of the
Independent Theatre Society . The author is booed.
[7]
December 21 –
Brandon Thomas ' farce
Charley's Aunt begins a record-breaking
London run at the Royalty Theatre (following a pre-London opening at
Bury St Edmunds on
February 29 ).
The Irish Literary Society is founded by
W. B. Yeats ,
T. W. Rolleston and
Charles Gavan Duffy in London, and the
National Literary Society by Yeats in
Dublin with scholar
Douglas Hyde as its first president.
[8]
unknown dates
Children and young people
January 3 –
J. R. R. Tolkien , South African-born English novelist and scholar (died
1973 )
January 13 –
N. Porsenna , Romanian novelist, essayist, poet and social psychologist (died
1971 )
February 8 –
Ralph Chubb , English poet, printer and artist (died
1960 )
February 22 –
Edna St. Vincent Millay , American poet (died
1950 )
February 23 –
Agnes Smedley , American journalist and writer (died 1950)
March 1 –
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Japanese short story writer and poet (suicide
1927 )
March 8 –
Juana de Ibarbourou , Uruguayan poet (died
1979 )
March 9
March 18 –
Robert P. T. Coffin , American poet, essayist, novelist and academic (died
1955 )
March 22 –
Karel Poláček , Czech writer, humorist and journalist (died
1944 )
May 9 –
Ștefan Foriș , Hungarian and Romanian journalist and communist activist (murdered
1946 )
May 18 –
Cecil Roberts , English novelist, journalist and poet (died
1976 )
May 26 –
Maxwell Bodenheim , American poet and novelist (murdered
1954 )
May 29 –
Max Brand , born Frederick Schiller Faust, American Western, pulp fiction and screenwriter (died 1944)
June 11 –
Irene Rathbone , English novelist (died
1980 )
June 12 –
Djuna Barnes , American writer (died
1982 )
June 26 –
Pearl S. Buck , born Pearl Sydenstricker, American novelist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature (died
1973 )
July 1 –
James M. Cain , American author and journalist (died
1977 )
July 12 –
Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and artist (killed
1942 )
August 5 –
Margery Fish , English gardening writer (died
1969 )
October 8 (September 26
O.S. ) –
Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet (suicide
1941 )
October 9 –
Ivo Andrić , Serbo-Croatian novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died
1975 )
October 27 –
Victor E. van Vriesland , Dutch writer (died
1974 )
December 6 –
Osbert Sitwell , English novelist and poet (died
1969 )
December 10 –
Lucy M. Boston , born Lucy Maria Wood, English children's novelist (died
1990 )
December 12 –
Mykola Kulish , Ukrainian prose writer, playwright (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at
Sandarmokh
1937 )
[11]
December 21
unknown dates
January 20 –
Christopher Pearse Cranch , American poet and magazine editor (born
1813 )
January 28 –
Gustav Zerffi , Hungarian journalist and rationalist (born
1820 )
March 16 –
Edward Augustus Freeman , English historian and politician (born
1823 )
March 26 –
Walt Whitman , American
poet (born
1819 )
March 28 –
Emily Lucas Blackall , American author (born
1832 )
April 15 –
Amelia Edwards , English fiction writer and Egyptologist (born
1831 )
April 21 –
Emelie Tracy Y. Swett , American author (b.
1863 )
July 10 –
Rudolf Westphal , German classical scholar (born
1826 )
July 15 –
Thomas Cooper , English Chartist poet (born
1805 )
July 18 –
Rose Terry Cooke , American poet and novelist (born
1827 )
August 25 –
Richard Lewis Nettleship , English philosopher (born
1846 )
September 6 –
B. Beaumont , British author (born
1828 )
September 7 –
John Greenleaf Whittier , American Quaker poet (born
1807 )
September 11 –
Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop , American social reformer and autobiographer (born
1847 )
September 17 –
Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle , Austrian poet (born
1825 )
September 23 –
George Grub , Scottish church historian (born
1812 )
October 2 –
Teréz Karacs , Hungarian novelist, poet and memoirist (born
1808 )
October 12 –
Xavier Marmier , French writer and translator (born
1808 )
October 17 –
David Edelstadt , Russian-born American poet in Yiddish (born
1866 )
October 21 –
Anne Charlotte Leffler , Swedish novelist and dramatist (born
1849 )
October 24 –
Anton Gindely , Bohemian historian (born
1829 )
December 1 –
Mary Allen West , American superintendent of schools, newspaper editor (born
1837 )
December 3 (November 21
O.S. ) –
Afanasy Fet , Russian lyric poet, essayist and short-story writer (born
1820 )
December 27 –
Orange Judd , American editor and publisher (born
1822 )
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Turicum (in German). Orell Fuessli Graphische Betriebe. 1977. p. 48.
^
NEHGS Nexus . New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1992. p. 30.
^ Norbert Kohl (3 March 2011).
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel . Cambridge University Press. p. 240.
ISBN
978-0-521-17653-8 .
^ "The Bibliographical Society".
The Morning Post . London. July 16, 1892. p. 2.
^ Dexter, Gar y (2010). "To The Lighthouse (1927)". Title Deeds: the hidden stories behind 50 books . Tiverton: Old Street Publishing. pp. 127–31.
ISBN
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^
Macedonski, Alexandru (1892).
"Notițele Literatoruluĭ . Banchiet Țĕrănesc" (PDF) . Literatorul (in Romanian) (6): 5.
^
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ISBN
978-1-845-95185-6 .
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^ 1896 according to Z. Zylbercweig.
^ Mir Shamsur Rahman (2012).
"Panni, Wazed Ali Khan" . In
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ISBN
984-32-0576-6 .
OCLC
52727562 .
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30677644M . Retrieved 10 July 2024 .
^
"Kulish, Mykola" . encyclopediaofukraine.com . Retrieved 1 April 2024 .
^ Anne Commire (1977).
Something About the Author: Facts and Pictures About Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People . Gale /Cengage Learning. p. 27.
ISBN
978-0-8103-0072-9 .