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Overview of the events of 1890 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1890 .
January – William Heinemann launches his Heinemann publishing business in London's Covent Garden with Hall Caine 's successful novel The Bondman [1]
January 25 – L. Frank Baum begins publishing and editing his newspaper The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer in Aberdeen, South Dakota ; it survives for just over a year.
March 8 – Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula [2]
c. June–September – Joseph Conrad , at this time serving as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski with a Belgian steamer company, makes a journey on the Congo River which will inspire his novel Heart of Darkness 1899 ).
July 13 – Ambrose Bierce 's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ", one of his best known works, is first published, in The San Francisco Examiner
July–August – Bram Stoker holidays with his family at Whitby on the north-east coast of England and from the library there reads William Wilkinson's An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia , all of which feed into his composition of Dracula [3]
September – Arthur Morrison joins the staff of The Globe (London newspaper)[4]
October 20 – A day after the death of Richard Francis Burton in Trieste , his widow, Isabel , burns his journals, a revised translation of The Perfumed Garden [5]
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Leo Tolstoy 's novella The Kreutzer Sonata United States Post Office Department prohibits mailing of newspapers containing serialized installments of it.[6]
Macmillan Publishers in the U.K. begin to supply on "net book" terms, i.e. no discounts are available to retail consumers.[7]
Hall Caine 's four-act historical drama Mahomet , based on the life of Muhammad and written for the actor-manager Henry Irving , is banned by the Lord Chamberlain after it causes unrest in Britain's Muslim communities, threatens British rule in parts of India and strains Britain's relations with the Ottoman Empire.[8]
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Children and young people [ edit ]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
January 9
January 11 – Oswald de Andrade , Brazilian poet and polemicist (died 1954 )
February 10 – Boris Pasternak , Russian author (died 1960 )[10]
March 11 – Vannevar Bush , American author (died 1974 )
April 26 – Mykola Zerov , Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh 1937 )[11]
May 15 – Katherine Anne Porter , American journalist and novelist (died 1980 )
May 18 – Zora Cross , Australian poet and novelist (died 1964 )
May 20 – Allan Nevins , American historian and journalist (died 1971 )[12]
May 29
May 31 – Gheorghe Eminescu , Romanian historian and memoirist (died 1988 )
August 15 – Tsugi Takano (鷹野 つぎ), Japanese novelist (died 1943 )
August 20 – H. P. Lovecraft , American horror writer (died 1937 )[13]
August 24 – Jean Rhys , Dominica, West Indies-born English novelist (died 1979 )[14]
August 28 – Ivor Gurney , English war poet and composer (died 1937 )[15]
August 31 (August 19 O.S. ) – August Alle , Estonian writer (died 1952 )
September 6 – Brinsley MacNamara , born John Weldon, Irish novelist and playwright (died 1963 )
September 10 – Franz Werfel , Austrian author (died 1945 )
September 15 – Agatha Christie , English mystery writer (died 1976 )[16]
September 24 – A. P. Herbert , English humorist and novelist (died 1971 )
October 1 – Blanche Oelrichs , American poet and playwright (died 1950 )
October 13 – Conrad Richter , American novelist (died 1968 )
November 2 – Moa Martinson , Swedish author (died 1964 )[17]
November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg , English poet (killed in action 1918 )
December 2 – Károly Molter , Hungarian novelist, dramatist and academic (died 1981 )
January 2 – George Henry Boker , American poet and playwright (born 1823 )
June 11 – George Edward Brett , American publisher (born 1829 )
June 24 – Subba Row , Hindu Theosophist writer (cutaneous disease, born 1856 )
July 15 – Gottfried Keller , Swiss novelist (born 1819 )
July 18 – Lydia Becker , English journalist and author, co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal 1827 )[18]
August 9 – Eduard von Bauernfeld , Austrian dramatist (born 1802 )
September 18 – Dion Boucicault , Irish dramatist (born c. 1820)
October 19 – Sir Richard Francis Burton , English explorer, translator and writer (born 1821 )
October 26 – Carlo Collodi , Italian children's writer (born 1826 )
November 1 – Júlio Ribeiro , Brazilian naturalist, novelist and grammarian (tuberculosis, born 1845 )
December 6 – Richard William Church , English biographer and cleric (born 1815 )
December 18 – Grigory Danilevsky , Russian historical novelist (born 1829 )
December 19 – Zénaïde Fleuriot , French novelist (born 1829)
December 29 – Octave Feuillet , French novelist and dramatist (born 1821 )[19]
References [ edit ]
^ Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7
^ Sutherland, John (2017). Who is Dracula's Father? . London: Icon. pp. 74–5. ISBN 978-1-78578-297-8
^ Loughlin-Chow, M. Clare (2004). "Morrison, Arthur George (1863–1945)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/38649 . Retrieved 2014-06-03 . (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Isabel Burton; Lady Isabel Burton (1999). The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton ISBN 978-81-206-0728-6
^ "Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata" . British Library . Retrieved 2014-05-28 .
^ R. J. L. Kingsford; Reginald John Lethbridge Kingsford (2 January 1970). The Publishers Association 1896-1946 ISBN 978-0-521-07756-9
^ Foulkes, Richard (2008). Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager . Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-138-66565-1
^ Hubert, Susan J. (2002). Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives ISBN 978-0-87413-743-9
^ Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves (November 1999). Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z ISBN 978-1-57958-048-3
^ "Zerov, Mykola" . encyclopediaofukraine.com . Retrieved 1 April 2024 .
^ Gerald L. Fetner (1 February 2012). Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History ISBN 978-0-7914-8566-8
^ Charles P. Mitchell (2001). The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography ISBN 978-0-313-31641-8
^ Sylvie Maurel (30 October 1998). Jean Rhys ISBN 978-1-349-27006-4
^ John Lucas (2001). Ivor Gurney ISBN 978-0-7463-0887-5
^ "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 14 September 2020 .
^ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Springfield: Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6
^ Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth (2005). Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-2520-3015-4
^ Richard Kaufmann (1891). Paris of To-day
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