1897 in literature

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The year 1897 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

[edit] Events

January 2 - Newspapers in London, England erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
The comedy play Im weißen Rößl (The White Horse Inn) by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg opens in Berlin. Decades later it will be turned into a popular and successful musical play.
Benito Pérez Galdós is elected to the Real Academia Española.

[edit] New books

John Kendrick Bangs - Pursuit of the House-Boat
Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Dariel
Rhoda Broughton - Dear Faustina
Hall Caine - The Christian
Kate Chopin - A Night in Acadie
Joseph Conrad - The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Jerome
George Gissing - The Whirlpool
Ellen Glasgow - The Descendant
Sarah Grand - The Beth Book
Henry James - What Maisie Knew
Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous
Camille Lemonnier - L'Homme en Amour
W. Somerset Maugham - Liza of Lambeth
Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Jules Verne - An Antarctic Mystery
Lew Wallace - The Wooing of Malkatoon
H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man
Richard Marsh - The Beetle

[edit] New drama

Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il Sogno di un mattino di primavera
Octave Mirbeau - Les Mauvais bergers (The Bad Shepherds)
Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde (not performed until 1921)

[edit] Poetry

Þorsteinn Erlingsson - Þyrnar ("Thorns")

[edit] Non-fiction

Grant Allen - The Evolution of the Idea of God

[edit] Births

January 11 - Bernard DeVoto, historian
January 19 - Natacha Rambova, dramatist and wife of Rudolph Valentino
March 23 - Béla Hamvas, philosopher
July 1 - Edward Wyndham Tennant, poet
July 15 - R. J. Yeatman, humorous author
August 11
- Enid Blyton, children's author
- Louise Bogan, poet
September 25 - William Faulkner, novelist
October 22 - Marjorie Flack, children's author
November 1 - Naomi Mitchison, novelist and poet
November 7 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, screenwriter
November 8 - Dorothy Day, journalist
December 3 - Kate O'Brien, novelist and dramatist
date unknown - Iris Tree, poet

[edit] Deaths

March 7 - Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer
March 11 - Henry Drummond, evangelist and writer on natural history
June 25 - Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, writer
July 28 - Étienne Vacherot, philosophical writer
August 5 - James Hammond Trumbull, philologist
August 25 - Émile Théodore Léon Gautier, historian
September 17 - Ferenc Pulszky, political writer
October 24 - Francis Turner Palgrave, anthologist
December 17 - Alphonse Daudet, novelist

[edit] Awards

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