1877 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1877.
Events
- January 24 â Ãmile Zola's L'Assommoir (sometimes translated as "The Dram Shop"), seventh in his novel sequence Les Rougon-Macquart, is first published in book format a few weeks after its serialisation ends in Le Bien public (Paris). It sells more than 50,000 copies by the end of the year.
- February 24âMarch 17 â Robert Louis Stevenson's first published work of fiction, the novella "An Old Song", appears anonymously in four episodes in the magazine London. It is first attributed to Stevenson in 1980.[1]
- July â The ending of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is published in Russkiy vestnik.[2]
- July 15 â "Coppino Law" in Italy makes elementary schools mandatory, free and secular.
- October â Robert Louis Stevenson publishes the short story "A Lodging for the Night" (in Temple Bar magazine), later collected in New Arabian Nights.
- October 15 â Edward L. Wheeler's first story featuring Deadwood Dick, set on the American frontier, opens the first number of Beadle's Half-Dime Library, published in New York.[3]
- November 5 â The Mitchell Library is established in Glasgow.[4]
- November 14 â Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater (having been first published on October 11 in Copenhagen).[5]
- November 24 â Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty, his grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse "translated from the equine" is published by Jarrolds of Norwich in England. Her only book, published five months before her death arising from long-standing illness, it rapidly establishes its position as an all-time bestseller, going on to sell fifty million copies[6] and becoming the sixth best seller in the English language.[7]
- December 30 â Swedish dramatist August Strindberg marries his mistress, the divorced actress Siri von Essen, a member of the Finnish-Swedish minor nobility.
New books
Fiction
- R. M. Ballantyne â The Settler and the Savage
- R. D. Blackmore â Erema; or, my father's sin
- Ned Buntline â Buffalo Bill Trails the Devil Head
- Bankim Chatterjee
- Chandrasekhar
- Rajani
- Ion CreangÄ â Harap Alb
- Fyodor Dostoevsky â "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Сон ÑмеÑного Ñеловека, short story)
- Maria Fetherstonhaugh â Kilcorran
- Gustave Flaubert â Three Tales
- Henry James â The American
- Jan Neruda â PovÃdky malostranské (Tales of the Little Quarter)
- Margaret Oliphant â CaritÃ
- William Clark Russell â The Wreck of the Grosvenor
- Theodor Storm â Aquis Submersus
- Anthony Trollope
- The American Senator
- Is He Popenjoy?
- Jacint Verdaguer â L'Atlà ntida
- Jules Verne
- Ãmile Zola â L'Assommoir
Children and young people
- Louisa May Alcott â Under the Lilacs
- Mary Louisa Molesworth (Mrs. Molesworth) â The Cuckoo Clock
- Anna Sewell â Black Beauty
- Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton) â A Peep Behind the Scenes
Drama
- James Albery â The Pink Dominos
- José Echegaray â Saint or Madman? (O locura o santidad)
- W. S. Gilbert â Engaged
- Henrik Ibsen â The Pillars of Society (Samfundets støtter)
- Adolphe L'Arronge â Hasemann's Daughters
Poetry
- Edward Lear â Laughable Lyrics (published December 1876, dated 1877)[8]
- Stéphane Mallarmé â Poésies
Non-fiction
- Henry Spencer Ashbee (as Pisanus Fraxi) â Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical on Curious and Uncommon Books
- Helena Blavatsky â Isis Unveiled
- Florence Caddy â Household Organisation
- Amelia Edwards â A Thousand Miles up the Nile
- Henry Miers Elliot (ed. by John Dowson) â The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians
- Kenneth Mackenzie â Royal Masonic Cyclopedia
- Lewis H. Morgan â Ancient Society
- Shen Fu (æ²å¾©) â Six Records of a Floating Life (autobiography; first printed edition)
Births
- January 4 â Sextil PuÈcariu, Romanian linguist, philologist and journalist (died 1948)
- February 7 â Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet" (died 1930)
- March 6 â Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (died 1957)[9]
- April 14 â Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (died 1936)[10]
- April 29 â Henri Stahl, Romanian historian, short story writer, memoirist and stenographer (died 1942)
- June 11 â Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet (died 1909)
- July 2 â Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (died 1962)
- August 27 â Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist and pastor (died 1951)
- September 1 â Rex Beach, American novelist and playwright (died 1949)
- September 9 â James Agate, English diarist and critic (died 1947)
- November 15 â William Hope Hodgson, English fiction writer (killed in action 1918)
Deaths
- January 29 â Caroline Howard Jervey, American author, poet, and teacher (born 1823)
- February 18 â Henrietta A. Bingham, American writer and editor (born 1841)
- April â Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller, German philologist (born 1802)
- June 15 â Caroline Norton (née Caroline Sheridan), English poet, pamphleteer and social reformer (born 1808)
- June 17 â John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian and pastor (born 1805)
- August 30 â Toru Dutt, multilingual Indian Bengali poet, novelist and translator, of pulmonary tuberculosis (born 1856)
- September 12 â Emily Pepys, English child diarist (born 1833)
- October 10 â Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and critic (born 1801)
- October 16 â Théodore Barrière, French dramatist (born 1823)
- October 28 â Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (born 1824)
- December 12 â José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (born 1829)