1902 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1902.
Events
- January 5
- The political drama Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, completed and published in 1835) by Georg Büchner (died 1837), is first performed, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in Berlin by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne.[1]
- George Bernard Shaw's controversial 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession receives its first performance at a private London club.[2]
- January 23 â The first example of a Sherlockian game â a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick â appears in The Cambridge Review.[3]
- April â Mark Twain buys a home in Tarrytown, New York. On June 4 he receives an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Missouri.
- June 16 â Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege about the mathematical problem to become known as Russell's paradox.[4]
- July 1 â The Romanian language literary review LuceafÄrul begins publication in Budapest.
- August 6 â Ãn sat sau la oraÈ (In the Village or in the City), by the Romanian peasant leader Constantin Dobrescu-ArgeÈ, is performed in his native MuÈÄteÈti, in front of an audience comprising Education Minister Spiru Haret[5] and some 2,000 villagers.[6]
- September 9 â P. G. Wodehouse leaves his job at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company in London to become a freelance writer. On September 18, his first published novel, the St. Austin's school story The Pothunters, is published in London by A & C Black, as a truncation of the version in their Public School Magazine from January to March.
- Early October â Beatrix Potter's self-illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit (originally published privately a year earlier) appears in its first trade edition with Frederick Warne & Co in London. It sells 28,000 copies by the end of the year.[7]
- October 5 â Thousands attend the funeral of the French novelist Ãmile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. They include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.[8]
- November 4 â J. M. Barrie's comedy The Admirable Crichton is first performed, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh. It runs for 828 performances.
- December 5 â Leo Tolstoy's drama The Power of Darkness («ÐлаÑÑÑ ÑÑмÑ», Vlast' t'my, written in 1886) has its Russian-language première at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.[9]
- December 18 â Maxim Gorky's drama The Lower Depths â Scenes from Russian Life («Ðа дне», Na dne) is first performed, at the Moscow Art Theatre, as a first major success for Konstantin Stanislavski as director and star.
- unknown date â The poet Ètefan PeticÄ's cycle Fecioara în alb is published, marking a maturing of Romanian Symbolism.[10]
New books
Fiction
- AzorÃn â La voluntad (Volition)
- Jane Barlow â The Founding of Fortunes
- PÃo Baroja â Camino de perfección (pasión mÃstica) (Road to Perfection)
- Edward Harold Begbie (as Caroline Lewis) â Clara in Blunderland
- Arnold Bennett
- Rhoda Broughton â Lavinia[11]
- Joseph Conrad
- Typhoon (serialized in The Pall Mall Magazine JanuaryâMarch and US book publication)[12]
- Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories, incorporating Youth: a Narrative (1898) and Heart of Darkness (first 1899)[2]
- The End of the Tether
- Marie Corelli â Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy
- Miguel de Unamuno â Amor y pedagogÃa
- Ramón del Valle-Inclán â Sonatas: Memorias del Marqués de BradomÃn â Sonata de otoño (Sonatas: The Pleasant Memories of the Marquis of BradomÃn â Autumn Sonata)
- Arthur Conan Doyle â The Hound of the Baskervilles[2]
- Paul Laurence Dunbar â The Sport of the Gods
- Hamlin Garland â The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop
- André Gide â L'immoraliste[13]
- Ellen Glasgow â The Battle-Ground
- Annie French Hector â Kitty Costello[14]
- Theodor Herzl â The Old New Land
- Violet Jacob â The Sheepstealers
- W. W. Jacobs â The Lady of the Barge (short stories, including "The Monkey's Paw")
- Henry James â The Wings of the Dove[2]
- Alfred Jarry â Supermale (Le Surmâle: roman moderne)
- Mary Johnston â Audrey
- Olha Kobylianska â Zemlya (Land)
- Jack London â A Daughter of the Snows
- George Barr McCutcheon â Brewster's Millions
- Charles Major â Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
- A. E. W. Mason â The Four Feathers[15]
- W. Somerset Maugham â Mrs Craddock
- Dmitri Merejkowski â The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
- Frank Norris â The Pit (serialization)
- Luigi Pirandello â Il Turno[16]
- W. Heath Robinson â The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
- Saki â The Westminster Alice
- Percy Sykes â Ten Thousand Miles in Persia[17]
- Jules Verne â The Kip Brothers (Les Frères Kip)
- Eduard Vilde â Mahtra sõda (The War at Mahtra)[18][19]
- Owen Wister â The Virginian[20]
Children and young people
- L. Frank Baum â The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- J. M. Barrie â The Little White Bird (includes the story "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens")
- Edith Ogden Harrison â Prince Silverwings and other fairy tales
- William Dean Howells â The Flight of Pony Baker
- Rudyard Kipling â Just So Stories for Little Children[2]
- Bessie Marchant â Fleckie: A Story of the Desert, etc.
- E. Nesbit â Five Children and It
- Beatrix Potter â The Tale of Peter Rabbit[2]
- Edward Stratemeyer â The Young Volcano Explorers
- Mrs George de Horne Vaizey â A Houseful of Girls
- C. N. and A. M. Williamson â The Lightning Conductor: the Strange Adventures of a Motor-car[21]
Drama
- J. M. Barrie â The Admirable Crichton
- Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers â Le CÅur a ses raisons[22]
- Constantin Dobrescu-ArgeÈ â Ãn sat sau la oraÈ (In the Village or in the City, first performance)[5]
- Clyde Fitch â The Girl with the Green Eyes
- Cosmo Gordon-Lennox â The Marriage of Kitty[23]
- Maxim Gorky â The Lower Depths[24]
- Haralamb Lecca â Septima. CâiniÄ
- Maurice Maeterlinck â Monna Vanna
- Frank Wedekind â King Nicolo
- W. B. Yeats â Cathleen NÃ Houlihan
Poetry
- Edwin James Brady â The Earthen Floor
- Walter de la Mare (as Walter Ramal) â Songs of Childhood[25][26]
- Ètefan PeticÄ â Fecioara în alb
Non-fiction
- Jane Addams â Democracy and Social Ethics
- James Allen â As a Man Thinketh
- Hilaire Belloc â The Path to Rome[27]
- Euclides da Cunha â Os Sertões (translated as Rebellion in the Backlands)[28]
- Arthur Conan Doyle â The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct
- Michael Fairless (pseudonym of Margaret Barber) â The Roadmender
- John A. Hobson â Imperialism: a study[2]
- William James â The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Bertrand Russell â A Free Man's Worshipbeach
- William Wynn Westcott â Collectanea Hermetica (finishes publication)
Births
- January 1 - Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir, Egyptian journalist and writer (d. 1981) [29]
- January 5 â Stella Gibbons, English novelist (died 1989)
- January 20 â Nazim Hikmet, Turkish lyricist and dramatist (died 1963)
- January 30 â Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born architectural historian (died 1983)
- February 13 â Fernando Chaves, Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, and journalist (died 1999)[30]
- February 16 â Ion CÄlugÄru, Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (died 1956)
- February 19 â Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and political activist (died 1992)
- February 27 â John Steinbeck, American novelist and journalist (died 1968)
- March 10 â Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (died 1994)
- March 29 â Marcel Aymé, French novelist and short-story writer (died 1967)[31]
- April 2 â Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)
- April 6 â Julien Torma, French poet and dramatist (died 1933)
- April 9 â Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (died 1986)
- April 23 â Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (died 1998)[32]
- June 5 â Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (died 1982)
- July 10 â Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (died 1989)
- July 8 â Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African American writer and artist (died 1981)
- August 15 â Katharine Brush, American short story writer (died 1952)
- August 16 â Georgette Heyer, English novelist (died 1974)[33]
- August 19 â Ogden Nash, American poet and humorist (died 1971)[34]
- August 24
- Felipe Alfau, Spanish-American fiction writer, poet and translator (died 1999)[35]
- Fernand Braudel, French historian (died 1985)
- October 13 â Arna Bontemps, African American poet (died 1973)
- October 23 â Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespeare scholar (died 1999)
- October 26 â Beryl Markham (Beryl Clutterbuck), English-born Kenyan adventurer and memoirist (died 1986)[36]
- October 31 â Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987)[37]
- November 1 â Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author (killed in action 1943)[38]
- November 2
- Hu Feng (è¡é£), Chinese novelist (died 1985)
- Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (died 1983)
- November 29 â Carlo Levi, Italian writer (died 1975)
- December 20 â Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright (died 1963)[39]
Deaths
- January 7 â Wilhelm Hertz, German poet and translator (born 1835)
- April 6 â Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (born 1843)[40]
- April 20 â Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (born 1834)
- April 21 â Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (born 1866)[41]
- May 5 â Bret Harte, American author and poet (born 1836)[42]
- May 6 â Emma Augusta Sharkey, American dime novelist (born 1858)[43]
- May 17/18 â Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge, American philanthropist, author and reformer (b. 1849)
- June 10 â Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (born 1845)[44]
- June 18 â Samuel Butler, English novelist (born 1835)[45]
- August 31 â Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (born 1828)[46]
- September 11 â Ernst Dümmler, German historian (born 1830)[47]
- September 19 â Masaoka Shiki (æ£å²¡ åè¦), Japanese haiku poet (born 1867)[48]
- September 29
- William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel poet (born 1825)[49]
- Ãmile Zola, French novelist (carbon monoxide poisoning, born 1840)[50]
- October 7 â George Rawlinson, English historian (born 1812)
- October 13 â John George Bourinot, Canadian historian (born 1836)
- October 25 â Frank Norris, American novelist (peritonitis, born 1870)[51]
- October 31 â Cornélie Huygens, Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist (born 1848)[52]
- November 16 â G. A. Henty, English historical novelist (born 1832)[53]
- December 26 â Mary Hartwell Catherwood, American author and poet (born 1849)[54]
