Overview of the events of 1900 in literature
Overview of the events of 1900 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1900 .
March 5 – New York performances of the play Sapho curbed for immorality.[1] March 15 – Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand 's l'Aiglon .[2] May May 17 – L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago , the first of Baum's books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children. June 24 – The Hanlin Academy in Peking , housing "the oldest and richest library in the world", catches fire and is destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion .[4] June 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Library Cave or Cave for Preserving Scriptures, No. 17 of the Mogao Caves in north-west China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century. July 1 – The Net Book Agreement comes into force in the U.K: publishers will supply booksellers only on condition that they do not retail the supplied books at a discounted rate. October 15 – Mark Twain ends an absence from the United States of some nine years when he returns to New York aboard the Atlantic Transport Line steamship Minnehaha .[5] November 1 – Ermete Novelli opens the "Casa di Goldoni", a new theatre in imitation of the Comédie Française , at Rome.[6] November 19 – August Strindberg 's To Damascus (Till Damaskus , first two parts) receives its première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with August Palme and Harriet Bosse , Strindberg's future wife, in the leading rôles. unknown dates New books [ edit ] The first edition title page of one of the most prominent literary works of the year 1900, L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Musicals [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] January – Elisabeth Inglis-Jones , Welsh novelist and biographer (died 1994 ) January 9 – Emmanuel D'Astier , French journalist (died 1969 ) January 11 – Borden Chase , American writer (died 1971 ) January 15 – William Heinesen , Faroese writer (died 1991 ) January 31 – Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall , English biographer and children's writer (died 1990 ) February 4 – Jacques Prévert , French poet (died 1977 ) February 19 – Giorgos Seferis , Greek poet (died 1971 ) February 22 – Seán Ó Faoláin , Irish short story writer (died 1991 ) March 7 – Benn Levy , English playwright and politician (died 1973 ) March 15 – Gilberto Freyre , Brazilian author (died 1987 ) April 19 – Richard Hughes , English novelist (died 1976 ) April 20 – Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor , Romanian anthropologist, ethnographer and children's writer (died 1968 ) April 22 – Vyvyan Adams (Watchman), English writer and politician (died 1951 ) April 24 – Elizabeth Goudge , English novelist and children's author (died 1984 )[11] April 26 – Roberto Arlt , Argentine novelist, playwright and journalist (died 1942 ) April 28 – Antonieta Rivas Mercado , Mexican feminist writer and patron of the arts (died 1931 ) May 1 – Ignazio Silone , Italian author and politician (died 1978 ) May 6 – Garrett Mattingly , American historian (died 1962 ) May 24 – Eduardo De Filippo , Italian author (died 1984 ) May 28 – Nan Chauncy , English-born Australian children's writer (died 1970 ) June 7 – Jan Engelman , Dutch writer (died 1972 ) June 11 – Leopoldo Marechal , Argentine writer (died 1970 ) June 19 – Ștefan Voitec , Romanian politician and journalist (died 1984 ) June 25 – Gerald Drayson Adams , English screenwriter (died 1988 ) June 29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French novelist (died 1944 ) July 2 – Tyrone Guthrie , English theatrical director (died 1971 ) July 18 – Nathalie Sarraute , Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (died 1999 ) July 24 – Zelda Fitzgerald , American author (died 1948 ) August 10 – Charles Shaw , Australian writer (died 1955 ) September 7 – Taylor Caldwell , Anglo-American novelist (died 1985 ) September 9 – James Hilton , English novelist (died 1954 ) October 3 – Thomas Wolfe , American novelist (died 1938 ) October 16 – Edward Ardizzone , English children's writer and illustrator (died 1979 ) October 30 – Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter (died 1995 ) November 8 – Margaret Mitchell , American novelist (died 1949 ) November 19 – Anna Seghers , German writer (died 1983 ) December 8 – Ants Oras , Estonian writer (died 1982 ) December 16 – V. S. Pritchett , English short story writer (died 1997 )[12] unknown date – Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah , Scottish writer (d. 1960 ) January 4 – Stanisław Mieroszewski , Polish-born politician, historian and writer (born 1827 )[13] January 11 – James Martineau , English religious philosopher (born 1805 )[14] January 19 – William Larminie , Irish poet and folklorist (born 1849 ) January 20 January 25 – Frederick H. Chapin , American author and explorer (born 1852 ) February 6 – Elijah Benamozegh , Italian spiritual writer and rabbi (born 1822 ) February 14 – Giovanni Canestrini , Italian scientist, essayist and translator (born 1835 ) February 18 – Eugenio Beltrami , Italian mathematician and theorist (born 1835 ) February 23 – Ernest Dowson , English poet and novelist (born 1867 ) March 11 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand , French mathematics writer (born 1822 ) March 30 – David Léon Cahun , French Orientalist and writer (born 1841 ) April 5 – Maria Louise Eve , American author (born 1842 ) April 12 – James Richard Cocke , American author and hypnotherapist (born 1863 ) April 21 – Charles Beecher , American composer, minister and writer (born 1815 ) April 23 – Charles Isaac Elton , English historian, politician and writer (born 1839 ) April 27 – Francišak Bahuševič , Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer (born 1840 ) April 30 – George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll , Scottish politician and writer (born 1823 ) May 4 – Hugo Badalić , Croatian writer and scholar (born 1851 ) May 20 – André Léo , French novelist and journalist (born 1824 ) May 28 – Sir George Grove , English writer and lexicographer on music (born 1820 ) June 2 – Clarence Cook , American author and art critic (born 1828 ) June 3 – Mary Kingsley , English travel writer and explorer (born 1862 )[15] June 4 – Edwards Amasa Park , American theologian, pastor and writer (born 1808 ) June 5 – Stephen Crane , American writer, journalist and poet (born 1871 ) June 12 – Lucretia Peabody Hale , American journalist and author (born 1820 )[16] June 19 – Salvador Camacho , Colombian economist, politician and writer (born 1827 ) July 3 – Fernand Brouez , Belgian editor and founder of La Société Nouvelle (born 1861 ) July 6 – Gustav Jacob Born , German medical author and histologist (born 1851 ) July 22 – Lucius E. Chittenden , American writer and politician (born 1824 ) July 29 – Henry Spencer Ashbee , English writer and bibliographer (born 1834 ) August 2 – Sydney Robert Bellingham , Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (born 1808 ) August 16 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz , Portuguese novelist (born 1845 ) August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher and philologist (born 1844 ) August 28 – Henry Sidgwick , English philosopher (born 1838 ) September 18 – Anne Beale , Welsh novelist and poet (born 1816 ) September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary , American author and prohibitionist (born 1814 ) October 13 – Louis Adolphe Cochery , French journalist and politician (born 1819 ) October 20 October 27 – James Henry Bowker , South African naturalist (born 1822 ) November 12 – F. Burge Griswold , American poet and short story writer (born 1826 ) November 12 – Thomas Arnold the Younger , English literary scholar (born 1823 ) November 16 – Isidore Barthe , French-Canadian journalist and translator (born 1834 ) November 27 – David Carnegie , Australian travel writer (born 1871 ) November 30 – Oscar Wilde , Irish poet, dramatist and short story writer (born 1854 )[17] December 15 – Charles Cotesworth Beaman , American lawyer and author (born 1840 ) December 30 – Henry Ames Blood , American poet, dramatist and historian (born 1836 ) December 31 – Oscar Alin , Swedish historian, politician and author (born 1846 ) unknown date – Berdakh , Uzbek poet (born 1827 )[18] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century . Ecam Publication. p. 10. ISBN 0-942191-01-3 . ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century . Ecam Publication. p. 12. ISBN 0-942191-01-3 . ^ Tavis, Anna A. (1997). 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