1882 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1882.
Events
- January 2 - Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte.[1] He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's New York City studio.[2]
- April 9 - English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti.[3]
- May 20 - World première of Henrik Ibsen's controversial play Ghosts (Gengangere; 1881) in Norwegian in Chicago.[4]
- June 2 - English language première of Ibsen's play A Doll's House (1879) as The Child Wife in Milwaukee.[4]
- October
- Almqvist & Wiksell are established in Uppsala (Sweden) by purchase of an earlier printing company.
- Rudyard Kipling returns to the British Raj and joins the staff of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore.
- December - Karl May (as Captain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura) begins publication of Das Waldröschen in instalments.[5]
- Publication in Delhi of the first original novel in Hindi, Pariksha guru (Parīkṣāguru, "Experience is the Only Teacher") by Srinivas Das (Śrīnivāsdās).[6]
New books
- F. Anstey - Vice Versa
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - The Story Without a Name
- Walter Besant - The Revolt of Man
- Félicien Champsaur - Dinah Samuel
- Bankim Chatterjee - Anandmath
- R. D. Blackmore - Christowell
- Wilkie Collins - After Dark (short stories)
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Terra vergine (short stories)
- Etonensis (George Augustus Sala and James Campbell Reddie) - The Mysteries of Verbena House, or, Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving
- Theodor Fontane - L'Adultera ("The Adulteress")
- Richard Jefferies - Bevis
- Alexander Kielland - Skipper Worse
- Ouida - Bimbi: Stories for Children
- George Bernard Shaw - Cashel Byron's Profession
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The New Arabian Nights
- Frank R. Stockton - "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (short story in The Century Magazine)
- Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir (Hólm) - Brynjólfur Sveinsson biskup
- Anthony Trollope - The Fixed Period
- Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
- Gleb Uspensky - The Power of the Land (Власть земли, in Otechestvennye Zapiski)
- Jules Verne
- Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery (L'École des Robinsons)
- The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert)
New drama
- José Echegaray - Conflicto entre dos deberes ("Conflict of Duties")
- Victor Hugo - Torquemada
- Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende)
- Victorien Sardou - Fédora
- Jules Verne - Journey Through the Impossible (Voyage à travers l'impossible)
Poetry
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Canto novo
- George Robert Sims - The Dagonet Ballads
Non-fiction
- Hall Caine - Recollections of Rossetti
- Ignatius L. Donnelly - Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
- William Morris - Hopes and Fears for Art
- Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)
- Theodore Roosevelt - The Naval War of 1812
Births
- January 10 – Olive Higgins Prouty, American novelist (died 1974)
- January 18 – A. A. Milne, English children's writer and novelist (died 1956)
- January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist (died 1941)
- February 2 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (died 1941)
- March 5 – Henry S. Whitehead, American author (died 1932)
- May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (died 1949)
- May 30 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian novelist (died 1975)
- September 12 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer (died 1963)
- October 28 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and editor (died 1911)
- November 24 – E. R. Eddison, English fantasy author (died 1945)
- December 13 – André Billy, French author (died 1971)
Deaths
- January 3 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (born 1805)
- January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American novelist and politician (born 1815)
- March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (born 1807)
- April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (Bright's disease, born 1828)[7]
- August 1 – Henry Kendall, Australian poet (born 1839)
- December 6 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (born 1815)
Awards
References
- ↑ Cooper, John. "Oscar Wilde's 1882 American Lecture Tour". Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
- ↑ Cooper, John. "Sarony Photographs of Oscar Wilde". Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
- ↑ Letter of W. M. Rossetti to his wife Lucy. Peattie, Roger W., ed. (1990). Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Pennsylvania State University. p. 413.
- 1 2 "English first performances". Ibsen.net. 2004-05-12. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ↑ "Karl-May-Gesellschaft". Archived from the original on December 19, 2010. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
- ↑ Kalsi, A. S. (1992). "Parīkṣāguru (1882): The First Hindi Novel and the Hindu Elite". Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press) 26: 763–790. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00010064. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
- ↑ Peattie, Roger W., ed. (1990). Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Pennsylvania State University. p. 413.
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