1879 in literature
Overview of the events of 1879 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1879 .
Events
January 1 – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell 's bookshop, in Oxford .[ 1] January 11 – During construction of an extension to Birmingham Central Library in England, a fire destroys 50,000 books and the original manuscript of the Coventry Mystery Plays (including the "Coventry Carol ").September – The English critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into permanent care at his Putney home.[ 2]
September 6 – Arthur Conan Doyle has his first story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley ", published anonymously in Chambers's Journal October 10 – The collected works of the American poet Ethel Lynn Beers are published as All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems . The title poem is her best-known work . On the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey .December – Walter Besant persuades Thomas Hardy to become a founder-member of The Rabelais Club in London , which holds a literary dinner once every two months. Other members include the novelists Henry James , Bret Harte , Oliver Wendell Holmes and George du Maurier .[ 3]
December 21 – The first production of Henrik Ibsen 's controversial "modern drama" A Doll's House Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen , after publication there on December 4 .unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
We must come to a final settlement, Torvald. During eight whole years. . . we have never exchanged one serious word about serious things.
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – E. M. Forster , English novelist and critic (died 1970 )January 26 – Alfred Eckhard Zimmern , German-born English historian and political scientist (died 1957 )February 2 – I. C. Vissarion , Romanian novelist, dramatist, poet and science writer (died 1951 )February 13 – Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay), Indian poet and politician (died 1949 )February 17 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher , American activist and novelist (died 1958 )March 9 – Agnes Miegel , German author, journalist and poet (died 1964 )March 14 – Harold Monro , English poet and promoter of poetry (died 1932 )March 28 – Terence MacSwiney , Irish playwright, poet and politician (died on hunger strike 1920 )April 14 – James Branch Cabell , American novelist (died 1958 )May 8 – Ioan C. Filitti , Romanian historian, political theorist and essayist (died 1945 )June 4 – Percy Lubbock , English essayist, critic and biographer (died 1965 )July 19 – Ferenc Móra , Hungarian children's writer and editor (died 1934 )July 20 – Claude Scudamore Jarvis , English writer, Arabist and naturalist (died 1953 )August 19 – Lascăr Vorel , Romanian visual artist and short story writer (died 1918 )September 19 – Louis Joseph Vance , American novelist (died 1933 )October 2 – Wallace Stevens , American poet (died 1955 )November 19 – Mait Metsanurk , Estonian author and playwright (died 1957 )December 3 – Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風), Japanese novelist (died 1959 )December 24 – Émile Nelligan , French Canadian poet (died 1941 )[ 6]
Deaths
January 16 – Octave Crémazie , "the father of French Canadian poetry" (born 1827 )February 28 – Hortense Allart , French feminist novelist (born 1801 )[ 7] March 3
March 9 – Mark Prager Lindo , Dutch historian (born 1819 )March 19 – Claire Clairmont , English-born diarist and correspondent (born 1798 )[ 8] April 8 – Anthony Panizzi , Italian-born English librarian (born 1797 )April 21 – George Hadfield , English radical author and politician (born 1787 )April 25 – Charles Tennyson Turner , English poet (born 1808 )April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale , American novelist and poet (born 1788 )[ 9] June 1 – Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill , American children's author (born 1799 )[ 10] June 3 – Frances Ridley Havergal , English religious poet (born 1836 )[ 11] June 19 – George W. M. Reynolds , English popular novelist (born 1814 )July 4 – Sarah Dorsey , American novelist and historian (born 1829 )July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje , Norwegian poet and journalist (born 1818 )September 20 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon , Canadian novelist and poet (born 1829 )September 23 – Francis Kilvert , English diarist and cleric (born 1840 )October 11 – Ethel Lynn Beers , American poet (born 1827 )October 13 – Henry Charles Carey , American economist (born 1793 )October 28 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud , French political economist (born 1799 )October 31
November 23 – Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord , American political essayist (born 1810 )[ 12] December 27 – William Hepworth Dixon , English historian, traveller and journal editor (born 1821 )[ 13]
Awards
References
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^ Grayson, Sandra M. (2000). "Tuthill, Louisa Caroline Huggins (1799-1879), author" . American National Biography. doi :10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1602710 . ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7 . Retrieved July 4, 2018 . ^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 152. ISBN 9780720123302 ^ Fraser, Jessie Melville (1920). Bulletin ^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J) ISBN 978-1-60520-248-8 ^ Iona: Newdigate Prize Poem , 1879
