1880 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880.
Events
- February â The journal Science is first published in the United States, with financial backing from Thomas Edison.[1]
- April â 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 Ãmile Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, "Boule de Suif", which launches his career.[2]
- April 20 (O. S.: April 8) â At the Romanian Academy, Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet, adopted by a commission also comprising George BariÈ 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 â 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 â Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow.
- October â 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 â 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
- Henry Adams (anonymously) â Democracy: An American Novel
- Rhoda Broughton â Second Thoughts
- Wilkie Collins â Jezebel's Daughter
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield â Endymion
- Fyodor Dostoevsky â The Brothers Karamazov (ÐÑаÑÑÑ ÐаÑамазовÑ, Brat'ya Karamazovy)
- Amelia Edwards â Lord Brackenbury
- Evelyn Everett-Green â Tom Tempest's Victory
- Theodor Fontane
- George Gissing â Workers in the Dawn
- Walter T. Gray (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) â A Bad Boy's Diary
- Percy Greg â Across the Zodiac
- Anna Katharine Green â A Strange Disappearance
- Thomas Hardy â The Trumpet-Major
- Henry Kendall â Songs from the Mountains
- Alexander Kielland â Garman og Worse
- Pierre Loti â Le Mariage de Loti (as Rarahu)
- Ouida â Moths
- Louisa Parr â Adam and Eve
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin â The Golovlyov Family (ÐоÑпода ÐоловлÑвÑ, Gospoda Golovlyovy)
- Anthony Trollope â The Duke's Children
- Mark Twain â A Tramp Abroad
- Giovanni Verga â Vita dei campi (The Life of the Fields, short stories, including "Cavalleria rusticana" â "Rustic chivalry")
- Lew Wallace â Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- Ãmile Zola â Nana
Children and young people
- Carlo Collodi â The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
- Evelyn Everett-Green â Tom Tempest's Victory
- Johanna Spyri â Heidi
- Jules Verne â The Steam House (La Maison à vapeur)
Drama
- Adolphe L'Arronge â The Lonei Household (Haus Lonei)
- Augustus Harris and Paul Meritt â The World
- Oscar Wilde â Vera; or, The Nihilists (privately printed)
Poetry
- Anne Evans (died 1870) â Poems and Music (with a memorial preface by Anne Isabella Thackeray)
Non-fiction
- Henry Charlton Bastian â The Brain as an Organ of Mind
- James Legge â The Religions of China
- Algernon Charles Swinburne â A Study of Shakespeare
- Charles Warren â The Temple or the Tomb. Giving further evidence in favour of the authenticity of the present site of the Holy Sepulchre
Births
- February 21 â Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952)
- February 27 â Angelina Weld Grimké, African-American playwright and poet (died 1958)
- March 1 â Lytton Strachey, English critic and biographer (died 1932)[7]
- March 4 â Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (died 1946)
- March 13 â Frank Thiess, German writer (died 1977)
- March 21 â E. H. Young, English novelist (died 1949)
- March 30 â Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist (died 1964)[8]
- June 10 â Margit Kaffka, Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1918)
- June 17 â Carl Van Vechten, American writer (died 1964)[9]
- June 27 â Helen Keller, American writer and lecturer (died 1968)[10]
- July 4 â Anne Beffort, Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died 1966)
- July 10 â Greye La Spina, American writer (died 1969)
- August 5 â Ruth Sawyer, American children's writer and novelist (died 1970)
- August 15 â Anna Rüling, German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died 1953)[11]
- August 26 â Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and dramatist (died 1918)[12]
- September 12 â H. L. Mencken, American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956)[13]
- October 4 â Damon Runyon, American journalist and short-story writer (died 1946)[14]
- October 17 â Vasile Cijevschi, Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died 1931)
- October 18 â Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died 1940)
- November 1 â Grantland Rice, American sports writer (died 1954)
- November 6 â Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (died 1942)
- November 25 â Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died 1960)
- November 29 â N. D. Cocea, Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died 1949)
- December 24 â Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's author (died 1938)[15]
Deaths
- January 12 â Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, German author (born 1805)[16]
- February 12 â Karl Eduard von Holtei, German poet and dramatist (born 1798)
- February 17 â James Lenox, American bibliophile (born 1800)
- April 9 â Louis Edmond Duranty, French novelist and critic (born 1833)
- April 16 â Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, Irish writer and barrister (born 1819)
- April 18 â Costache Aristia, Wallachian translator, poet, dramatist and actor (born 1800)
- May 2 â Eunice Hale Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (born 1803)
- May 5 â Andrei Mocioni, Hungarian-Romanian journalist and literary patron (born 1812)
- May 6 â Ivan Surikov, Russian poet (born 1841)
- May 8 â Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (born 1821)[17]
- May 30 â James Planché, English dramatist (born 1796)
- June 7 â Karl Christian Planck, German philosopher (born 1819)
- July 7 â Lydia Maria Child, American writer and abolitionist (born 1802)
- July 12 â Tom Taylor, English dramatist and journalist (born 1817)
- September 23 â Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (born 1812)
- December 22 â George Eliot (Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born 1819)[18]
Awards
- Commander, First Class of the Order of St. Olav â Andreas Munch
- Newdigate Prize â Rennell Rodd, "Raleigh"[19]
