1902 in literature

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In poetry: 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1902.

Events

January 5
- The political drama Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, completed and published in 1835) by Georg Büchner (d. 1837), receives its première, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in Berlin in a production by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne.
- First performance of George Bernard Shaw's controversial 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession at a private club in London.^[1]
January 23 – First published example of the Sherlockian game, a study of inconsistencies of dates in The Hound of the Baskervilles^[2] (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April).

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April – Mark Twain purchases a home in Tarrytown, New York.
June 4 – Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from the University of Missouri.
June 16 – Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the mathematical problem that will become known as Russell's paradox.^[3]
July 1 – The Romanian language literary review Luceafărul begins publication in Budapest.
September 9 – P. G. Wodehouse leaves his job at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company in London to become a freelance writer.
Early October – Beatrix Potter's self-illustrated children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit (originally published privately a year earlier) is first published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co in London. By the end of the year it sells 28,000 copies.^[4]
October 5 – Thousands attend the funeral of French novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris; they include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.^[5]
November 4 – J. M. Barrie's comedy The Admirable Crichton is premièred at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh and running for an extremely successful 828 performances.
December 5 – Leo Tolstoy's drama The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, Vlast' t'my, written in 1886) is premièred at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although he is self-critical.^[6]
December 18 – Maxim Gorky's drama The Lower Depths – Scenes from Russian Life (На дне, Na dne) is premièred at the Moscow Art Theatre with Stanislavski directing and starring, his first major success.
The Irish Literary Theatre project ends.^[7]
Poet Ștefan Petică publishes the cycle Fecioara în alb, which marks a maturing of Romanian Symbolism.^[8]

New books

Poetry

Edwin James Brady – The Earthen Floor
Walter de la Mare (as Walter Ramal) – Songs of Childhood^[10]^[11]
Ștefan Petică – Fecioara în alb

Non-fiction

Jane Addams – Democracy and Social Ethics
James Allen – As a Man Thinketh
Hilaire Belloc – The Path to Rome
Arthur Conan Doyle – The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct
Michael Fairless – The Roadmender
John A. Hobson – Imperialism: a study^[1]
William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience
Bertrand Russell – A Free Man's Worship
William Wynn Westcott – Collectanea Hermetica finishes publication

Births

January 5 – Stella Gibbons, English novelist (died 1989)
January 20 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish lyricist and dramatist (died 1963)
January 30 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born architectural historian (died 1983)
February 1 – Langston Hughes, African-American poet and novelist (died 1967)
February 16 – Ion Călugăru, Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (died 1956)
February 19 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and political activist (died 1992)
February 27 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and journalist (died 1968)
March 10 – Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (died 1994)
March 29 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and short-story writer (died 1967)
April 2 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)
April 6 – Julien Torma, French poet and dramatist (died 1933)
April 9 – Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (died 1986)
April 23 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (died 1998)
June 5 – Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (died 1982)
July 10 – Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (died 1989)
July 8 – Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African American writer and artist (died 1981)
August 15 – Katharine Brush, American short story writer (died 1952)
August 16 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (died 1974)
August 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet and humorist (died 1971)
August 24
- Felipe Alfau, Spanish-American fiction writer, poet and translator (died 1999)
- Fernand Braudel, French historian (died 1985)
October 13 – Arna Bontemps, African American poet (died 1973)
October 23 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespeare scholar (died 1999)
October 26 – Beryl Markham (Beryl Clutterbuck), English-born Kenyan adventurer and memoirist (died 1986)
October 31 – Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987)
November 1 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author (killed in action 1943)
November 2 – Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (died 1983)
November 29 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer (died 1975)
December 7 – N. Crevedia, Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (died 1978).
December 20 – Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright (died 1963)

Deaths

January 7 – Wilhelm Hertz, German poet and translator (born 1835)
April 6 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (born 1843)
April 20 – Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (born 1834)
May 6 – Bret Harte, American author and poet (born 1836)
June 10 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (born 1845)
June 18 – Samuel Butler, English novelist (born 1835)
August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (born 1828)
September 11 – Ernst Dümmler, German historian (born 1830)
September 19 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規), Japanese haiku poet (Pott's disease, born 1867)
September 29
- William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel poet (born 1825)
- Émile Zola, French novelist (carbon monoxide poisoning, born 1840)
October 7 – George Rawlinson, English historian (born 1812)
October 13 – John George Bourinot, Canadian historian (born 1836)
October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist (peritonitis, born 1870)
November 16 – G. A. Henty, English historical novelist (born 1832)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

References

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↑ Frege, Gottlob (1997). Beaney, Michael, ed. The Frege Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-631-19445-3.
↑ Lear, Linda (2007). Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-36934-7.
↑ "Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd -- Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away -- Very Little Disorder". The New York Times. 1902-10-06.
↑ My Life in Art (1924).
↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 380.
↑ Cernat, Paul (2007). Avangarda românească și complexul periferiei: primul val. Bucharest: Cartea Românească. p. 15.
↑ "A History of Persia". World Digital Library. 1921. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
↑ "A Time-Line of Poetry in English". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-20.

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