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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1887.
Events
- February – Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review.[1]
- March 30 – Théâtre Libre, established by André Antoine to promote naturalism in theatre, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble.[2]
- April 22 – Syracuse University in New York State purchases the Ranke Library from the estate of historian Leopold von Ranke, outbidding the Prussian government.
- November – Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston).
- December 5 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect.
- December 15 – The Romanian literary magazine Revista Nouă is launched in Bucharest by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who answers a request made by Ioan Bianu, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Alexandru Vlahuță and others. The first issue, illustrated by George Demetrescu Mirea, hosts Delavrancea's Hagi Tudose and Petre Ispirescu's Sarea în bucate[3] (a localized folkloric version of the King Leir myth).[4]
- unknown dates
- Futabatei Shimei writes and begins to publish The Drifting Cloud (浮雲, Ukigumo), the first modern novel in Japan.
- George Hutchinson establishes Hutchinson & Co. as a publisher in London.
- John Lane and Elkin Mathews set up in partnership under the name The Bodley Head in London, originally as antiquarian booksellers.
New books
Fiction
- Herman Bang – Stucco (Stuk)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Cut by the County
- Hall Caine – The Deemster[5]
- Marie Corelli – Thelma
- F. Marion Crawford – Saracinesca
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz – A Relíquia (The Relic)
- Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea – Hagi Tudose
- Anna Bowman Dodd – The Republic of the Future
- Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet
- Édouard Dujardin – Les Lauriers sont coupés (early example of Stream of consciousness, narrative mode)
- Benito Pérez Galdós – Fortunata y Jacinta (publication completed)
- Enrique Gaspar – El anacronópete, first fiction to feature a time machine[6]
- George Gissing – Thyrza
- H. Rider Haggard
- Thomas Hardy – The Woodlanders
- W. H. Hudson – A Crystal Age
- Joris-Karl Huysmans – En rade (Becalmed; serialization concludes, book publication)
- Petre Ispirescu – Sarea în bucate
- Pierre Loti – Madame Chrysanthème
- Paolo Mantegazza – Testa
- William Morris – The Tables Turned, Or, Nupkins Awakened: A Socialist Interlude[7]
- Appu Nedungadi – Kundalatha (കുന്ദലത)
- Bolesław Prus – The Doll (Lalka; serialization begins)
- José Rizal – Noli Me Tangere
- William James Roe (as Hudor Genone) – Bellona's Husband: A Romance
- Mark Rutherford (pseudonym of Hale White) – Revolution in Tanner's Lane
- Futabatei Shimei – The Drifting Cloud
- August Strindberg – The People of Hemsö (Hemsöborna)
- Jules Verne
- The Flight to France (Le Chemin de France)[8]
- Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (Nord contre Sud)
- Émile Zola – La Terre (The Earth)
Children and young people
- Palmer Cox – The Brownies, Their Book
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
Drama
- Anton Chekhov – Ivanov
- Arthur Wing Pinero – Dandy Dick
- Victorien Sardou – La Tosca
- August Strindberg – The Father
- Thomas Russell Sullivan – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, adapted from 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Non-fiction
- Mikhail Bakunin – God and the State
- Hall Caine – Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Charles Darwin (died 1882) – The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
- Julius Dresser – The True History of Mental Science[9]
- Friedrich Engels (translated by Florence Kelley) – The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (first English language edition)
- George William Foote – Royal Paupers: a radical's contribution to the Jubilee
- Franz Hartmann – The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings
- David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross - The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland
- Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – The Kabbalah Unveiled
- Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morality
- Marius Nygaard, Jan Johanssen and Emil Schreiner – Latinsk Ordbog
- E. J. Richmond – Woman, First and Last, and What She has Done
- A. E. Waite – The Real History of the Rosicrucians
- Mary Allen West – Childhood: Its Care and Culture
- L. L. Zamenhof – Unua Libro
Births
- January 2 – Dmitrii Milev, Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (died 1937)
- January 7 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (died 1953)
- January 10 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (died 1962)
- January 22 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (died 1972)
- February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (died 1947)[10]
- February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (died of overdose 1914)[11]
- February 4 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer (died 1955)[12]
- February 11 – John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
- February 20 – Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (died 1980)[13]
- March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (died 1967)
- March 14 – Sylvia Beach (Nancy Woodbridge Beach), American publisher and memoirist (died 1962)[14]
- May 15 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and translator (died 1959)[15]
- May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)[16]
- June 2 – Orrick Glenday Johns, American poet and playwright (died 1946)[17]
- June 25 – George Abbott, American playwright, director and screenwriter (died 1995)[18]
- July 1 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (died 1981)
- July 6 – Walter Flex, German war writer (died 1917)[19]
- August 3 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)[20]
- August 17 – Marcus Garvey, African American publisher, entrepreneur and Pan Africanist (died 1940)[21]
- August 28 – István Kühár, Prekmurje Slovene poet, writer and politician (died 1922)
- September 1 – Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser), Swiss-born French writer (died 1961)[22]
- September 8 – Constantin Beldie, Romanian literary promoter and memoirist (died 1954)
- September 26 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (died 1958)
- October 1 – Barbu Nemțeanu, Romanian poet and translator (died 1919)
- October 22 – John Reed, American journalist and poet (died 1920)[23]
- November 10 – Arnold Zweig, German novelist (died 1968)[24]
- December 15 – A. de Herz, Romanian playwright and journalist (died 1936)
Deaths
- February 10 – Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), English novelist (born 1814)
- February 11 – François Laurent, Belgian historian (born 1810)[25]
- February 19 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch-born writer (born 1820)[26]
- February 21 – Elizabeth Caroline Gray, historian and travel author (born 1800)[27]
- March 20 – Pavel Annenkov, Russian critic and memoirist (born 1813)
- April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet and folk song collector (born 1832)[28]
- May 4 – William Murdoch, Scottish-born Canadian poet (born 1823)
- May 5 – James Grant, Scottish novelist and historian (born 1822)[29]
- August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (born 1860)[30]
- August 25 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (born 1825)
- September 14 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German novelist, poet, playwright and art theorist (born 1807)
- September 27 – Mikalojus Akelaitis, Lithuanian writer, linguist and publicist (born 1829)
- October 12 – Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet (born 1826)[31]
- November 2 – Alfred Domett, English-born New Zealand poet and politician (born 1811)[32]
- November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (born 1849)[33]
- December 5 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (born 1804)[34]
References
- ^ Oscar Wilde (16 February 2021). The Canterville Ghost Annotated. Independently Published. ISBN 9798709933033. Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ^ Claude Schumacher; John Northam; Glynne W. Wickham (26 September 1996). Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918. Cambridge University Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-521-23014-8. Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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- ^ Ernest Franklin Bozman (1967). Everyman's Encyclopaedia. Dent. p. 11. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ^ Westcott, Kathryn (2011-04-09). "HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
- ^ The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel. Macmillan International Higher Education. 1 April 1983. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-349-17060-9.
- ^ Boston Public Library (1892). Works of Fiction in the French Language: Together with Translations from the French, in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston. The Trustees. p. 56. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ^ Annetta Gertrude Dresser (1895). The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby: With Selections from His Manuscripts and a Sketch of His Life. G. H. Ellis. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
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