1871 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1871.
Events
Programme for the opening night of The Bells
Henry Irving as Mathias in The Bells
- January 1 – The children's literary magazine Young Folks begins publication in the U.K. as Our Young Folks' Weekly Budget.
- January – John Ruskin begins publishing Fors Clavigera, his (originally) monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain".
- October – "Thomas Maitland" (i.e., Robert Williams Buchanan) attacks Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other members of what Buchanan calls the "Fleshly School" of English poetry in The Contemporary Review; on December 16 Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in the Athenaeum.
- November 25 – First performance of The Bells starring Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London,[1] the actor's first great success. On the same night, he breaks up permanently with his wife when she criticises his choice of profession.
- December – Publication of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch in eight parts commences.
- George Allen and Sons, publishers, predecessors of Allen & Unwin, established in London.
New books
Fiction
- William Alexander – Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk (serialised in Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70)[2]
- William Black – A Daughter of Heth[3]
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Fenton's Quest
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Coming Race
- Vanchinbalyn Injinash – The Blue Chronicle (köke sudur, Хөх судар; completed in MS)
- Henry James – Watch and Ward
- George Meredith – The Adventures of Harry Richmond
- William Gifford Palgrave – Personal Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862–63)[4]
- Mark Twain
- Eye Openers
- Screamers
- Giovanni Verga – Storia di una capinera (The Sparrow; book publication)
- Jules Verne – A Floating City
- Émile Zola – La Fortune des Rougon
Children and young people
- Louisa M. Alcott – Little Men
- Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- George MacDonald – At the Back of the North Wind
- Johanna Spyri – A Leaf on Vrony's Grave
Drama
- W. S. Gilbert – Pygmalion and Galatea
- Leopold Davis Lewis – The Bells (adapted from Erckmann-Chatrian's Le Juif Polonais)
- Alexander Ostrovsky – The Forest (Russian: Лес, Les)
- Dobri Voynikov – The Phoney Civilization (Bulgarian: Криворазбраната цивилизация, Krivorazbranata tsivilizatsiya)
Non-fiction
- Charles Darwin – The Descent of Man
- Edward Burnett Tylor – Primitive Culture
Births
- January 17 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian, politician, culture critic, poet and playwright (died 1940)
- February 22 – John Langalibalele Dube, Zulu writer (died 1946)
- February 25 (February 13 OS) – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet and writer (died 1913)
- March 5 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-born German revolutionary socialist (died 1919)
- March 27 – Heinrich Mann, German narrator, dramatist and essayist (died 1950)
- June 17 – James Weldon Johnson, American writer and activist (died 1938)
- May 14 – Caton Theodorian, Romanian dramatist and novelist (died 1939)
- July 3 – W. H. Davies, Welsh poet (died 1940)
- July 10 – Marcel Proust, French novelist (died 1922)
- August 21 (August 9 OS) – Leonid Andreyev, Russian short story writer and playwright (died 1919)
- August 27 – Theodore Dreiser, American novelist (died 1945)
- September 27 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer and Nobel Prize winner (died 1926)[5]
- October 10 – Wickham Steed, English journalist, editor and historian (died 1956)
- October 30 – Paul Valéry, French poet (died 1945)
- November 1 – Stephen Crane, American novelist (died 1900)
- November 10 – Winston Churchill, American novelist (died 1947)
Deaths
- January 12 – Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, French dramatist (born 1806)
- February 4 – *Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau – German travel and gardening writer (born 1785)
- February 12 – Alice Cary, American poet (tuberculosis, born 1820)[6]
- March 17 – Robert Chambers, Scottish writer and publisher (born 1802)
- July 31 – Phoebe Cary, American poet (born 1824)
- July 15 – Ján Chalupka, Slovak dramatist (born 1791)
- December 8 – Thomas Gaspey, English novelist and journalist (born 1788)
References
- ↑ Rowell, George, ed. (1953). Nineteenth Century Plays. World's Classics. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Donaldson, William (2004). "Alexander, William (1826–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39241. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
- ↑ "Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862–63)". World Digital Library. 1871. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ↑ Antonio Piromalli, Grazia Deledda, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1968.
- ↑ Kane, Paul. Poetry of the American Renaissance. New York: George Braziller, 1995: 297. ISBN 0807613983
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