1903 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1903.
Events
- JanuaryâDecember â Henry James's novel The Ambassadors is published as a serial in the monthly North American Review.
- May 22 â Japanese philosophy student Misao Fujimura (è¤ææ, born 1886) carves a poem into a tree at Kegon Falls before committing suicide over unrequited love.[1]
- June 20 â Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild begins serial publication in the Saturday Evening Post.[2]
- October 24 â Mark Twain sets out for Florence (Italy).[3]
- December â The Prix Goncourt for French literature is awarded for the first time, to John Antoine Nau for his novel Force ennemie.
- December 16 â The London County Council erects a plaque to novelist Charles Dickens (d. 1870) on his former home in Doughty Street.
- December 19 â The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series The Club of Queer Trades, "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown", appears in Harper's Weekly.
- unknown date â William Foyle and his brother Gilbert establish the London bookselling business of Foyles.[4]
New books
Fiction
- PÃo Baroja â El Mayorazgo de Labraz (Lord of Labraz, second of La Tierra Vasca â The Basque Country trilogy, 1900â1909)
- Ioan A. Bassarabescu â Nuvele
- Thio Tjin Boen â Tjerita Oeij Se
- René Boylesve â Enfant à la Balustrade
- Samuel Butler (died 1902) â The Way of All Flesh
- Erskine Childers â The Riddle of the Sands
- Joseph Conrad â Typhoon and Other Stories (U. K. book publication)
- Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer â Romance
- Florence Converse â Long Will
- Grazia Deledda â Elias Portolu
- Isabelle Eberhardt â Trimardeur (serialization begins)
- John Fox, Jr. â The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman â The Wind in the Rose Bush
- George Gissing â The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
- Henry James â The Ambassadors
- Jack London â The Call of the Wild
- John Antoine Nau â Force ennemie
- Frank Norris (died 1902) â The Pit
- Marmaduke Pickthall â Said the Fisherman
- Bram Stoker â The Jewel of Seven Stars
- Jules Verne â Travel Scholarships (Bourses de voyage)
- Mary Augusta Ward â Lady Rose's Daughter
- Ãmile Zola â Vérité
- Jerzy Å»uÅawski â Na Srebrnym Globie (On the Silver Globe, first in the Trylogia KsiÄżycowa â Lunar Trilogy)
Children and young people
- L. Frank Baum â The Enchanted Island of Yew
- Beatrix Potter
- Herminie Templeton â Darby O'Gill and the Good People (book publication)
- Kate Douglas Wiggin â Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Drama
- Dusé Mohamed Ali â The Jew's Revenge
- Jacinto Benavente â La noche del sábado (Saturday Night)
- Haralamb Lecca â Cancer la inimÄ
- André de Lorde â Le Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume
- W. Somerset Maugham â A Man of Honour
- René Morax â La Dîme
- Ètefan PeticÄ â FraÈii
- Florencio Sánchez â M'hijo el dotor (My son, the doctor)
- George Bernard Shaw â Man and Superman (published)
- J. M. Synge â In the Shadow of the Glen
- Pierre Wolff â The Secret of Polichinelle (Le Secret de Polichinelle)
- StanisÅaw WyspiaÅski â Wyzwolenie (Liberation)
Poetry
- Giovanni Pascoli â Canti di Castelvecchio
- Thomas Traherne (died 1674) â Poetical Works
- W. B. Yeats â In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age
Non-fiction
- James Allen â As a Man Thinketh
- Ada Cambridge â Thirty Years in Australia
- E. K. Chambers â The Mediaeval Stage
- W. E. B. Du Bois â The Souls of Black Folk
- Helena Rutherfurd Ely â A Woman's Hardy Garden
- Auguste Escoffier â Le Guide culinaire
- Helen Keller â The Story of My Life (book publication)
- G. E. Moore â Principia Ethica
- John Morley â The Life of Gladstone[5]
- Alois Riegl â Der moderne Denkmalkultus, sein Wesen, seine Entstehung (The Modern Cult of Monuments, Its Character and Origin)
- W. B. Yeats â Ideas of Good and Evil (essays)
Births
- January 10 â E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist and broadcaster (died 1961)
- February 11 â Alan Paton, South African novelist and activist (died 1988)
- February 13 â Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer (died 1989)
- February 17 â Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-born novelist (suicide 1951)
- February 21
- Anaïs Nin, French-American novelist and diarist (died 1977)
- Raymond Queneau, French poet (died 1976)
- February 22 â Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (died 1990)
- February 24
- Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (died 1967)
- Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist (died 1942)
- June 8 â Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (died 1987)
- June 18 â Raymond Radiguet, French author (died 1923)
- June 25 â George Orwell, English novelist and journalist (died 1950)[6]
- July 3 â Oliver Stonor, English novelist (died 1987)
- July 10 â John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (died 1969)[7]
- September 5 â János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died 1971)
- September 9 â Edward Upward, English novelist and short story writer (died 2009)
- September 10 â Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (died 1974)
- September 14 â Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (died 1980)
- October 17
- G. E. Trevelyan, English novelist (died 1941)
- Nathanael West, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1940)
- October 28 â Evelyn Waugh, English novelist and critic (died 1966)
- December 6 (November 23 OS) â Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist (died 1971)
- December 10
- Mary Norton, English children's writer (died 1992)
- William Plomer (Robert Pagan), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor (died 1973)
- December 13 â Todhunter Ballard, American novelist (died 1980)
- December 24 â Nancy Brysson Morrison, Scottish novelist (died 1986)
- December 29 â Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1976)
- Uncertain dates â Kathleen Lindsay, prolific English-born romance novelist (died 1973)
Deaths
- January 22 â Augustus Hare, English biographer and travel writer (born 1834)
- February 8 â Ada Ellen Bayly, English novelist (born 1857)
- March 4 â Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (born 1834)
- March 6 â Gaston Paris, French literary critic and scholar (born 1839)
- March 8 â Josefina Wettergrund, Swedish writer (born 1830)
- March 9 â Minnie Mary Lee, American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (born 1825)
- March 14 â Ernest Legouvé, French dramatist (born 1807)
- April 28 â Frances Augusta Conant, American journalist (born 1841)
- April 29 â Paul Du Chaillu, French American travel writer (born c. 1831)[8]
- May 12 â Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (born 1825)
- May 24 â Max O'Rell (Léon Paul Blouet), French journalist (born 1847)
- June 12 â Claymoor, Romanian fashion and entertainment critic (peptic ulcer; born c. 1842)[9]
- July 11 â W. E. Henley, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1847)[10]
- August 31 â William Hastie, Scottish theologian (born 1842)
- September 1 â Charles Bernard Renouvier, French philosopher (born 1815)[11]
- October 4 â Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (suicide, born 1880)
- November 1 â Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian (born 1817)[12]
- November 11 â Lavilla Esther Allen, American author (born 1834)
- November 19 â Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (born 1862)
- December 28 â George Gissing, English novelist (emphysema, born 1857)[13]
