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Overview of the events of 1910 in literature
Overview of the events of 1910 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1910 .
January 8 – Serialisation of Gaston Leroux 's novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)Le Gaulois [1] January 30 – Uncle Wiggily Longears, a rheumatic rabbit created by Howard R. Garis , makes his debut in the Newark News March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel Chaka [2]
March 18 – The first movie version of Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein 1818 ) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios . One of the first horror films , it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as the monster .March 30 – William Johnston and Paul West's novel The Innocent Murderers is published in New York City, as the first work of academic crime fiction.April 20 – Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies at his home, Stormfield , the day after the comet 's perihelion . In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"August 11 – The Buenos Aires Convention is signed, providing for international recognition of copyright .September – G. K. Chesterton 's fictional detective Father Brown makes a first U.K. appearance in the short story "The Blue Cross " in the Story-Teller The Saturday Evening Post Philadelphia ).
September 1 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree 's elaborate revival of Shakespeare 's Henry VIII October – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 's first novel Mafarka il futurista is cleared of obscenity charges.[3]
Fall – Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist on The New York American
November 20 – Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy dies of pneumonia aged 82[4] Astapovo railway station, after a day's train journey south, fleeing from his home.[5] Ongoing – Boris Pasternak drops out of the Moscow Conservatory and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the University of Marburg . He also falls in love with Olga Freidenberg . New books [ edit ] Leonardo Da Vinci:A memory of his childhood by Sigmund freud (published 1910) Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] February 6 – Irmgard Keun , German novelist (died 1982 )February 10 – Joan G. Robinson , English children's writer and illustrator (died 1988 )February 11 – L. T. C. Rolt , English biographer and writer of ghost stories (died 1974 )February 28 – Leonte Răutu , Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor (died 1993 )March 4 – Basil Boothroyd , English poet and humorist (died 1988 )March 22 – Nicholas Monsarrat , English novelist (died 1979 )May 8 – Andrew E. Svenson , American author and publisher (died 1975 )May 23 – Margaret Wise Brown , American children's writer (died 1952 )June 15 – Marie de Garis (Marie Le Messurier), Guernsey ethnographer and lexicographer (died 2010 )June 21 – Clive Sansom , English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright (died 1981 )June 23 – Jean Anouilh , French dramatist (died 1987 )July 14 – Vincent Brome , English biographer and novelist (died 2004 )July 27 – Julien Gracq , French novelist, critic and playwright (died 2007 )August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes (née Hopkins), English writer and archeologist (died 1996 )August 10 – Vladimir Cavarnali , Bessarabian-born Romanian poet, editor, and journalist (died 1966 )August 19 – Quentin Bell , English historian and author (died 1996 )September 8 – Julián Padrón , Venezuelan novelist, journalist and lawyer (died 1954 )September 11 – Manuel Mujica Láinez , Argentine novelist (died 1984 )September 18 – Bernard Kangro , Estonian journalist, author, and poet (died 1994 )October 15 – Haddis Alemayehu , Ethiopian politician and novelist (died 2003 )November 17 – Rachel de Queiroz , Brazilian author (died 2003 )December 19
December 24
unknown date – Betty Miller , Irish-born Jewish writer (died 1965 )January 29 – Edouard Rod , French-Swiss novelist (born 1857 )March 29 – H. Maria George Colby , American writer (born 1844 )April — Frances Margaret Milne , Irish-born American author and librarian (born 1846 )
April 3 – Catherine Helen Spence , Australian writer (born 1825 )April 4 – Augusta Harvey Worthen , Australian author and educator (born 1823 )April 9 – Vittoria Aganoor , Italian poet (born 1855 )April 15 – Angie F. Newman , American poet, author, and edito (born 1837 )April 21 – Mark Twain , American writer (born 1835 )May 7 – Emil Friedrich Kautzsch , German Bible scholar (born 1841 )May 10 – Anna Laetitia Waring , Welsh poet and hymnist (born 1823 )May 22 – Jules Renard , French novelist (born 1864 )July 2 – Frederick James Furnivall , English lexicographer (born 1825 )August 4 – Heinrich Julius Holtzmann , German New Testament commentator (born 1832 )August 26 – William James , American philosopher (born 1842 )September 6 – Susan F. Ferree , American journalist and social reformer (born 1844 )September 14 – Emma B. Dunham , American poet, author, teacher (born 1826 )October 17
October 27 – Henrietta Gould Rowe , American litterateur and author (born 1835 )November 6 – George Panu , Romanian memoirist, literary critic, journalist and politician (born 1848 )November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe , German novelist (born 1831 )November 20 – Leo Tolstoy , Russian novelist (born 1828 )References [ edit ]
^ Gaston Leroux (8 March 2012). The Phantom of the Opera ISBN 978-0-19-162381-3 ^ a b Thomas Mofolo (21 May 2013). Chaka ISBN 978-1-4786-0972-8 ^ Blum, Cinzia Sartini (1996). The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power ISBN 9780520916272 ^ Simmons, E. J. (1946). Leo Tolstoy . Little, Brown. ^ Meek, James (2010-07-22). "James Meek reviews 'The Death of Tolstoy' by William Nickell, 'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy' translated by Cathy Porter, 'A Confession' by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs and 'Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy' by Donna Tussing Orwin" . London Review of Books . pp. 3–8. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.^ "A History of Persia" . World Digital Library . Retrieved 2013-10-01 .^ Peter Norrish (1988). New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-1970 . Barnes & Noble Books. p. 107. ISBN 9780389207467 ^ Charles Bewley (3 September 2015). Atlantis; The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1910 ISBN 978-1-341-46121-7
