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Overview of the events of 1863 in literature
Overview of the events of 1863 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1863 .
January 1 – The essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation in the United States by composing "Boston Hymn " and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with a debut reading of it at Boston Music Hall .
January 31 – Jules Verne 's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires .
February 3 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in signing a humorous letter to the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada , first uses the pen name Mark Twain .
February 28 – Flaubert and Turgenev meet for the first time, in Paris.[1]
June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens , Anthony Trollope , Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair , as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts.
June 13 – Samuel Butler 's dystopian article "Darwin among the Machines " is published (as by "Cellarius") in The Press newspaper in Christchurch , New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872 ).
November – Mendele Mocher Sforim 's first Yiddish language story, "Dos Kleine Menshele" (The Little Man), is published in the Odessa weekly Kol Mevasser .[2]
December 29 – An estimated 7000 people attend the funeral of William Makepeace Thackeray at Kensington Gardens and nearly 2000 his burial in London's Kensal Green Cemetery .[3]
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February 9 – Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins), English novelist and playwright (died 1933 )
February 14 – Virginia Frazer Boyle , American author, poet (died 1938 )
March 3 – Arthur Machen (Arthur Llewellyn Jones), Welsh novelist and short story writer (died 1947 )
March 9 — Emelie Tracy Y. Swett , American author (d. 1892 )
March 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian poet (died 1938 )
March 17 – Olivia Shakespear (née Tucker), British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (died 1938)
April 9 – Henry De Vere Stacpoole , Irish novelist (died 1951 )
April 20 — Helen Dortch Longstreet , American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (died 1962 )
April 26 – Arno Holz , German Naturalist poet and dramatist (died 1929 )
April 29 – Constantine Cavafy , Greek Alexandrine poet (died 1933 )
June 10 – Louis Couperus , Dutch fiction writer (died 1923 )
June 20 – Florence White , English food writer (died 1940 )
July 13 – Margaret Murray , Indian-born English archeologist and historian (died 1963 )
August 7 – Gene Stratton Porter , American novelist and naturalist (died 1924 )
September 1 – Violet Jacob (Violet Kennedy-Erskine), Scottish historical novelist and poet (died 1946 )
September 8 – W. W. Jacobs , English short story writer (died 1943 )
September 22 – Ferenc Herczeg (Franz Herzog), Hungarian dramatist (died 1954 )
November 1
November 18 – Richard Dehmel , German poet (died 1920 )
November 21 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q.), English novelist and anthologist (died 1944 )[13]
December 16 – George Santayana , American novelist and poet (died 1952 )
May 13 – August Hahn , German Protestant theologian (born 1792 )
July 3 – William Barksdale , American journalist and Confederate general (killed in action, born 1821 [14]
July 10 – Clement Clarke Moore , American classicist and poet (born 1779 )
September 17 – Alfred de Vigny , French poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1797 )[15]
September 20 – Jacob Grimm , German philologist and fairy-tale author (born 1785 )[16]
October 6 – Frances Trollope , English novelist and writer (born 1779 )
October 8 – Richard Whately , English theologian and archbishop (born 1787 )
December 13 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel , German poet and dramatist (born 1813 )
December 17 – Émile Saisset , French philosopher (born 1814 )
December 24 – William Makepeace Thackeray , Indian-born English novelist and travel writer (stroke, born 1811 )[17]
References [ edit ]
^ Figes, Orlando (2019). The Europeans . [London]: Allen Lane. pp. 298–9. ISBN 978-0-241-00489-0 .
^ Solomon Liptzin (1985). A History of Yiddish Literature . Jonathan David. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8246-0307-6 .
^ Victorian Web: Grave of William Makepeace Thackeray . Accessed 8 March 2013
^ Stumm, Alexander (2017). Architektonische Konzepte der Rekonstruktion . Birkhäuser. pp. 161–166. ISBN 978-3-0356-1349-0 .
^ Romanian Review . Romania. 1990. p. 62.
^ William Shakespeare (15 October 1992). The Tragedy of King Lear . Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-521-33729-8 .
^ Collins, Paul (2011-01-07). "Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph". The New York Times Book Review .
^ Symons, Julian (1972). Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel . London: Faber and Faber. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3 . There is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was The Notting Hill Mystery.
^ Lease, Benjamin (1972). That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution . Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 206. ISBN 0-226-46969-7 .
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ a b Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1863". The People's Chronology . Thomson Gale.
^ Arthue Quiller -Couch A biographical study of Q . CUP Archive. p. 3.
^ William Barksdale biography Archived 2013-09-16 at the Wayback Machine , Sons of Confederate Veterans
^ Alfred de Vigny (1972). Cinq Mars (Complete) . Library of Alexandria. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4655-5006-4 .
^ William Bright (1992). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics . Oxford University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-19-505196-4 .
^ The Nineteenth Century and After . Leonard Scott Publishing Company. 1945. p. 127.
^ Jones, Gwilym Arthur. "Thomas, Thomas Llewelyn (1840–1897), scholar, teacher and linguist" . Welsh Biography Online . University of Wales Press. Retrieved 20 October 2020 .