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Overview of the events of 1873 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1873 .
Events
January 1 – Chicago Public Library opens in an old water tank in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.March 3
The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law , making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
First performance of W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett 's play The Happy Land Royal Court Theatre , London , parodying William Ewart Gladstone , Robert Lowe , and Acton Smee Ayrton , respectively the Prime Minister , Chancellor of the Exchequer , and First Commissioner of Works . March 18 – Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina Russkiy Vestnik Moscow ) between 1873 and 1877.[ 1] July – Thomas Hardy 's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes Tinsley's Magazine (begun September 1872 ) and is published in book format in London . Although Hardy's third novel, it is the first to bear his name on publication in the USA.
July 10 – Paul Verlainae shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels .[ 2] November – The children's periodical St. Nicholas Magazine Scribner and Company in New York under the editorship of Mary Mapes Dodge .
December 18 – Louisa May Alcott 's family satire "Transcendental Wild Oats " is published in the newspaper The Independent .[ 3] Serialization of the novel Night and Morning (original author not acknowledged, but in fact by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , 1841) as Xinxi xiantan by "Lishao Jushi" (probably Jiang Qizhang) begins in the Shanghai monthly Yinghuan Suoji , the first secular fiction translated from English into Chinese .[ 4]
Charles M. Barnes opens his book printing business in Wheaton, Illinois , a forerunner of publisher Barnes & Noble .[ 5]
In Berlin , Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu is known to be working on the verse fairy tale "Girl in the Garden of Gold" (Fata-n grădina de aur ). He will revisit the text regularly during the next decade, eventually producing his masterpiece Luceafărul 1883 ).[ 6]
Bertha Kinsky becomes governess to the Suttner family.[ 7]
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Mariano Azuela , Mexican writer (died 1952 )January 7 – Charles Péguy , French poet and essayist (killed in action 1914 )January 9 – Hayim Nahman Bialik , Russian-born Hebrew-language poet (died 1934 )January 20 – Johannes V. Jensen , Danish writer and Nobel Prize winner (died 1950 )January 28 – Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French novelist (died 1954 )February 23 (O. S. February 10) – Haralamb Lecca , Romanian dramatist, poet and translator (died 1920 )March 10 – Jakob Wassermann , German novelist (died 1934 )March 20 – Constantin Banu , Romanian politician, journalist, cultural promoter and aphorist (died 1940 )March 29 (bapt.) – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Sayers), Irish seanchaí 1958 )April 22 – Ellen Glasgow , American novelist (died 1945 )May 17 – Henri Barbusse , French novelist (died 1935 )June 8 – José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), Spanish novelist (died 1967 )June 16 – Lady Ottoline Morrell (Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck), English patron of the arts (died 1938 )September 8 – Alfred Jarry , French dramatist (died 1907 )September 31 – Ludovic Dauș , Romanian novelist and dramatist (died 1954 )October 10 – George Cabot Lodge , American poet (died 1909 )November 13 – Oliver Onions (George Oliver), English novelist and ghost story writer (died 1961 )December 7 – Willa Cather , American novelist (died 1947 )December 17 – Ford Madox Ford , English novelist (died 1939 )December 29 – Ovid Densusianu , Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist (died 1938 )Unknown date – Henric Streitman , Romanian essayist and journalist (died 1949 )
Deaths
January 9 – Sigurd Abel , German historian (born 1837 )January 10 – Francesco Dall'Ongaro , Italian poet and dramatist (born 1808 )January 18 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton , English novelist and playwright (born 1803 )February 1 – Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda , Cuban-born novelist (born 1814 )February 7 – Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer (born 1814 )February 24 – Spiridon Trikoupis , Greek author and orator (born 1788 )May 8 – John Stuart Mill , English philosopher (born 1806 )May 22 – Alessandro Manzoni , Italian poet and novelist (born 1785 )May 27 – Pierre-Antoine Lebrun , French poet (born 1785 )August 15 – Edward Meredith Cope , English classicist (born 1818 )September 25 – Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi , Italian novelist (born 1804 )September 26 – Julius Roerich Benedix , German dramatist (born 1811 )September 28 – Émile Gaboriau , French novelist (born 1832 )October 4 – Margaret Gatty , English children's author (born 1809 )November 6 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros , Spanish playwright (born 1796 )Unknown date – Harriet Ward , English non-fiction and fiction writer (born 1808 )
References
^ Jones, W. Gareth, George Eliot's Adam Bede and Tolstoy's conception of Anna Karenina473– 481, retrieved 2013-04-29 ^ Sutherland, John ; Fender, Stephen (2011). "10 July: Poet shoots poet". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature . London: Icon. pp. 257– 8. ISBN 978-184831-247-0 ^ The Independent , Vol. 25 No. 1307, 18 December 1873, pp. 1569-71.^ Hanan, Patrick (2004), "The First Novel Translated Into Chinese", Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Essays ISBN 978-0-231-50914-5 , retrieved 2013-07-19 ^ Turner, Betty N. (2006). The Noble Legacy: The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble, Cofounder of the Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble Book Companies . iUniverse. ISBN 9780595374786 ^ Perpessicius (2001). Studii eminesciene . Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. pp. 104, 200, 207– 210, 217– 219, 232– 233, 241– 242, 246, 262, 265, 273, 276– 278, 297, 353, 382– 383, 388. ISBN 973-8031-34-6 ^ "Bertha Freifrau (Baroness) von Suttner" . Timeline of Nobel Prize Winners . Retrieved 2013-07-19 .
