1883 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1883.
Events
- January 13 â Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende, 1882) gains its first performance at the Christiania Theatre.[1]
- February â Carlo Collodi's children's story The Adventures of Pinocchio appears first in Italy complete in book form as Le avventure di Pinocchio.
- May 23 â Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island first appears in book form from Cassell in London.
- June â Footlights, the University of Cambridge drama club in England, gives its first performance.
- June 4 â Mihai Eminescu reads his nationalist poem Doina to an enthusiastic crowd at Junimea in IaÈi.[2] It is sometimes described as his last work before a mental breakdown later this year. Eminescu's host Ion CreangÄ recalls it being composed on the spot,[3] but some researchers date it back to 1870.[4]
- June 30âOctober 20 â Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest is serialized in the British magazine Young Folks as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.
- July â The first issue of Fiamuri Arbërit, an Albanian literary and political magazine, is published from Cosenza. Managed by Girolamo de Rada, it promotes Ottomanism against Philhellenism.[5]
- August â Ivan Turgenev dictates his last story, "An end", to Pauline Viardot (who writes it in French) on his deathbed at Bougival in France.[6]
- August 29 â Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library, opens in Andrew Carnegie's home town, Dunfermline, Scotland.
- October 3â9 â Turgenev's body is returned by train from Paris to Saint Petersburg with crowds turning out to honor him.[6]
- December 27â28 â The Modern Language Association of America holds its first meeting.
- Uncertain dates
- Mark Twain's memoirs Life on the Mississippi are published simultaneously in Boston (Massachusetts) and London, as the first major book submitted to a publisher in typescript.[7]
- Kisari Mohan Ganguli begins publication of the first English-language translation of the Mahabharata.
- The Deutsches Theater company is formed in Berlin.[8]
New books
Fiction
- Emilia Pardo Bazán â La tribuna
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon â Phantom Fortune
- Rhoda Broughton â Belinda
- Wilkie Collins â Heart and Science
- Hugh Conway â Called Back
- Anne Elliot â Dr. Edith Romney
- Ludwig Ganghofer â The Hunter of Fall
- John Hay â The Bread-Winners (anonymous serialization in The Century Magazine)
- Alexander Kielland â Poison (Gift)
- Jonas Lie â Familien paa Gilje (The Gilje family)
- John Macnie (as Ismar Thiusen) â The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead
- Mary E. Mann â The Parish of Hilby
- Guy de Maupassant â Une Vie
- George A. Moore â A Modern Lover
- Friedrich Nietzsche â Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra, publication begins)
- Margaret Oliphant â "Hester (novel)"
- Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid â Gladys Fane
- Charlotte Riddell â A Struggle for Fame
- Annie S. Swan â Aldersyde
- Giovanni Verga â Novelle rusticane (Rustic short stories, about Sicily)
- Jules Verne â Kéraban the Inflexible (Kéraban-le-têtu)
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam â Contes cruels
Children and young people
- Carlo Collodi â The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
- George MacDonald â The Princess and Curdie
- Howard Pyle â The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Robert Louis Stevenson â Treasure Island (book publication)
Drama
- Frances Hodgson Burnett and William Gillette â Esmeralda
- François Coppée â Severo Torelli
- Imre Madách â The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, first performed)
- Edward Rose â Vice Versa
- George Robert Sims â In the Ranks
- August Strindberg â Lycko-Pers resa (Lucky Peter's Travels or Lucky Pehr)
- Oscar Wilde â Vera; or, The Nihilists (first performed)
- William Young â The Rajah; or Wyncot's Ward
Poetry
Non-fiction
- American Medical Association â Journal of the American Medical Association
- Mathilde Blind â George Eliot
- Hall Caine â Cobwebs of Criticism
- Thomas Hill Green (died 1882) â Prolegomena to Ethics
- J.-K. Huysmans â L'Art moderne
- Agnes Catherine Maitland (as A. C. M., Examiner...) â The Rudiments of Cookery: a Manual for Use in Schools and Homes
- William Robinson â The English Flower Garden
- J. R. Seeley â The Expansion of England
- Alfred Percy Sinnett â Esoteric Buddhism
- John Addington Symonds â A Problem in Greek Ethics: an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists
- Mark Twain â Life on the Mississippi
Births
- January 1 â Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer (died 1949)
- January 6 â Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-born poet and novelist writing in Arabic and English (died 1931)
- January 10 â Aleksei Tolstoy, Russian writer (died 1945)[9]
- January 20 â Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (died 1942)
- January 21 â Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher (died 1929)
- February 8 â Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian/American political economist (died 1950)
- February 15 â Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died 1959)
- February 16 â Elizabeth Craig, British writer (died [1980)
- February 20 â Naoya Shiga, Japanese novelist (died 1971)
- March 2 (February 18 O.S.) â Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek novelist (died 1957)
- March 9 â Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (died 1957)
- March 17 â Urmuz, Romanian short prose writer (died 1923)
- March 27 (March 15 O.S.) â Marie Under, Estonian poet (died 1980)
- April 18 â Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (died 1956)
- April 27 â Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (died 1927)[10]
- April 30 â Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek, Czech novelist (died 1923)[11]
- June 3 â Franz Kafka, Czech novelist writing in German (died 1924)
- June 4 â Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, English crime writer (died 1955)
- July 29 â Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (died 1942)
- September 14 â Rose Combe, French writer and railway worker (died 1932)[12]
- September 22 â Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (died 1932)
- October 18 â Helena Boguszewska, Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (died 1978)
- December 13 â Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (died 1950)[13]
- December 23 â Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher and politician (died 1966)
- December 30 â Marie Gevers, Belgian novelist writing in French (died 1975)
- unknown date â May Edginton, English popular novelist (died 1957)[14]
Deaths
- January 21 â Anna Eliza Bray, English novelist and travel writer (born 1790)
- March 14 â Karl Marx, German philosopher (born 1818)
- April 24 â Jules Sandeau, French novelist (born 1811)
- May 15 â Mary Elizabeth Mohl ("Clarkey"), English-born literary salonnière (born 1793)
- May 23 â Cyprian Norwid, Polish poet, dramatist and artist (born 1821)
- June 20 â Gustave Aimard, French novelist (born 1818)
- June 11 â Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English poet, novelist, short story writer (born 1813)
- July 16 â Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (born 1814)
- August 31 â Levin Schücking, German novelist (born 1814)
- September 2 â Léon Halévy, French historian and dramatist (born 1802)
- September 3 â Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist (born 1818)
- September 10 â Hendrik Conscience, Flemish novelist (born 1812)
- September 25 â George Ayliffe Poole, English writer and cleric (born 1809)[15]
- November 26 â Sojourner Truth, African American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author (born 1797)[16]
- December 13 â Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (born 1812)[17]
- unknown date â Mary S. B. Shindler, American poet (born 1810)