Overview of the events of 1870 in literature
Overview of the events of 1870 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870 .
Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair (engraving). Fildes, the illustrator for Edwin Drood at the time of Charles Dickens 's death, shows Dickens's empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place . It appears in the Christmas edition of The Graphic and thousands of prints of it are sold.[1] January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris.[2] March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford , in Cornwall .[3] March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective in the title. April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens ' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent , from a stroke, aged 58.[4] May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony .[5] Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi 's only novel Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in the Finnish language . August 24 /25 – Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War , resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg , the Apologist codex containing the only text of the early Epistle to Diognetus , and rare Renaissance books.[6] September 17 – The first performance of Alexander Pushkin 's play Boris Godunov (1825 ) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre . c. September 20 – Friedrich Engels moves permanently to London from Manchester .[7] December 18 – The Russian literary weekly Niva («Ни́ва», "Cornfield") is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg. unknown date – Construction of the David Sassoon Library in Bombay , India, is completed.[8] New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Lear 's illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat from Nonsense Songs Non-fiction [ edit ] January 3 – Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), Australian novelist (died 1946 ) March 5 – Frank Norris , American novelist (died 1902 ) April 7 – Gustav Landauer , German philosopher and revolutionary (murdered 1919 ) June 25 – Erskine Childers , Irish novelist (executed 1922 ) July 27 – Hilaire Belloc , French-born English writer, poet and satirist (died 1953 ) October 18 – Petre P. Negulescu , Romanian philosopher (died 1951 ) October 22 (October 10 OS ) – Ivan Bunin , Russian-born writer, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1953 ) October 29 – Gerald Duckworth , English publisher (died 1937 ) December 17 – Ioan A. Bassarabescu , Romanian short story writer and politician (died 1952 ) December 18 – Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), English short story writer and dramatist (killed in action 1916 )[12] January 21 – Alexander Herzen , Russian writer (born 1812 ) February 25 – Henrik Hertz , Danish poet (born 1797 ) April 16 – Rallou Karatza , Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (born 1799 ) April 24 – Louisa Stuart Costello , Irish writer on history and travel (born 1799 ) June 9 – Charles Dickens , English novelist (born 1812 )[13] June 11 – William Gilmore Simms , American poet, novelist and historian (born 1806 ) June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon , Australian poet (born 1833 )[14] July 19 – Benjamin Thorpe , scholar of Old English (born c. 1782 ) July 20 – Jules de Goncourt , French novelist and critic (syphilis, born 1830 )[15] July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström , Swedish poet and historian (born 1790 ) July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje , Norwegian journalist and poet (born 1818 )[16] September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American author and explorer (born 1836 )[17] September 23 – Prosper Mérimée , French writer (b. 1803 )[18] November 4 – Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse), French poet and writer (born 1846 )[19] December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père , French novelist (born 1802 )[20] References [ edit ] ^ "Luke Fildes" . TheFamousArtists.com. ^ Brumfield, William С. (2014), "Invitation to a Beheading: Turgenev and Troppmann" , Informatsionnyi gumanitarnyi portal "Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie" (6), archived from the original on 2015-04-02, retrieved 2015-03-17 . ^ "Emma Gifford" . Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-23 . ^ Obituary, The Times (London), August 1870. ^ Sonderheft der Karl-May-Gesellschaft . Karl-May-Gesellschaft. 1972. p. 129. ^ "History of the BNU" . Strasbourg: BNU (Bibliothèque nationale universitaire ). Retrieved 2014-01-21 . ^ "Outstanding Dates" . The Life and Work of Karl Marx . Retrieved 2013-07-23 . ^ Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagã̄vakara (2009). Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863 . Anthem Press. p. 366. ISBN 978-1-84331-305-2 . ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Put Yourself in His Place" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 120. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 . ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6 . ^ Ignatius Frederick Clarke (1997). The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come . Liverpool University Press. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-85323-642-9 . ^ "Dickens, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. ^ Harris, Max (1983). The unknown great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits . Melbourne: Sun Books. p. 45. ISBN 9780725104245 . ^ Pages from the Goncourt Journals (2006). NYRB Classics. ISBN 159017190X . ^ "Vinje-Sanger" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. ^ Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). The Biographical Dictionary of America . Vol. 7. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 75 – via Wikisource . [scan ] ^ "Prosper Mérimée" . Encyclopaedia Britannica . ^ Bachelard, Gaston (1986). "Lautréamont". Dallas Institute. ^ Douglas Munro (1978). Alexandre Dumas Père: A Bibliography of Works Translated Into English to 1910 . Garland Pub. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-8240-9836-0 .