1901 in literature
Overview of the events of 1901 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1901 .
Events
Anton Chekhov with Olga Knipper , on their honeymoon
January 31 – Anton Chekhov 's Three Sisters (Три сeстры, Tri sestry ) opens at the Moscow Art Theatre , directed by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko with Stanislavski as Vershinin, Olga Knipper as Masha, Margarita Savetskaya as Olga, Maria Andreyeva as Irina, and Maria Lilina (Stanislavsky's wife) as Natasha.
February 22 – Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church .[ 1]
May 1 – Publication of Maurice Maeterlinck 's The Life of the Bee in Belgium.[ 2]
May 6 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg , 52, marries his third wife, the Swedish-Norwegian actress Harriet Bosse , 23, after an engagement in March during rehearsals for his play Easter (Påsk) .
May 25 – Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony.[ 3]
May 28 – Cherry v. Des Moines Leader is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court , upholding the right to publish critical reviews.
June 28 – G. K. Chesterton marries Frances Blogg at St Mary Abbots , Kensington .
July – The first modern performances of Everyman , the 15th-century morality play , are given by William Poel 's Elizabethan Stage Society outdoors at the Charterhouse in London.[ 4] [ 5]
July 24 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement .
October
October 23 – Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature from Yale University . In the same month he moves to Riverdale, New York .
December 2 – The Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded.[ 7]
December 10 – The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme .[ 8]
unknown date – World's Classics series of publications is founded by Grant Richards in England.
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Elisabeth Kyle , Scottish novelist and journalist (died 1982 )
January 17 – Hryhorii Epik , Ukrainian writer and journalist (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh 1937 )[ 12]
January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz (Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett), German story writer, novelist and poet (died 1974 )
February 2 – Valerian Pidmohylny , Ukrainian modernist (shot at Sandarmokh 1937 )[ 13]
February 3 – Rosamond Lehmann , English novelist (died 1990 )
February 13 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), Scottish novelist (died 1935 )
February 23 – Ivar Lo-Johansson , Swedish novelist and journalist (died 1990 )
March 4 (or 1903) – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo), Malagasy Francophone poet (suicide 1937 )
April 10 – Anna Kavan (Helen Emily Woods, Helen Ferguson), French-born English novelist and short story writer (died 1968 )
April 21 – Gladys Mitchell , English crime fiction writer (died 1983 )
May 1 – Antal Szerb , Hungarian writer (died 1945 )
May 2 – Margaret Wetherby Williams (Margaret Erskine), English crime fiction writer (died 1984 )
May 15 – Xavier Herbert , Australian novelist (died 1984 )
May 26 – Norman Denny , English writer and translator (died 1982 )
June 1 – John Van Druten , English-born American dramatist (died 1957 )
June 23 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Turkish novelist and essayist (died 1962 )
July 9 – Barbara Cartland , English romantic novelist, historian and playwright (died 2000 )
July 20 – Dilys Powell , English film critic (died 1995 )
July 25 – Ruth Krauss , American children's author and poet (died 1993 )
August 10 – Sergio Frusoni , Cape Verde poet and promoter of Cape Verdean Creole language (died 1975 )
August 17 – Heðin Brú , Faroese fiction writer and translator (died 1987 )
August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo , Italian poet and translator (died 1968 )
October 25 – Samuil Lehtțir , Soviet Moldovan poet, critic and literary theorist (shot 1937 )
November 3 – André Malraux , French author (died 1976 )
November 4 – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (died 1957 )
December 9 – Ödön von Horváth , Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist (died 1938 )
December 16 – Margaret Mead , American anthropologist and author (died 1978 )[ 14]
Deaths
January 1 – Ignatius L. Donnelly , American politician and writer (born 1831 )
January 14 – Víctor Balaguer , Catalan Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1824 )
January 17 – Frederic W. H. Myers , British poet (born 1843 )
January 26 – Grigore Sturdza , Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (pneumonia, born 1821 )
February 2 – John Cordy Jeaffreson , English novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1831 )
February 7 – Rowena Granice Steele , first female novelist in California (born 1824 )
February 15 – Maurice Thompson , American novelist (born 1844 )
February 18 – Anna Gardner , American author, abolitionist, teacher, reformer (born 1816 )
March 19 – Philippe Gille , French dramatist (born 1831 )
April 6 – George Murray Smith , English publisher (born 1824 )
April 10 — Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff , reformer and author (born 1828 )
April 12 – Louis Auguste Sabatier , French theologian (born 1839 )
April 26 – Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey , American educator, author, editor, and publisher (born 1819 )
May 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge , English novelist (born 1823 )
June 4 – Charlotte Fowler Wells , American phrenologist and publisher (born 1814 )
June 5 – Dagny Juel , Norwegian writer and artists' model (shot, born 1867 )
June 9 – Walter Besant , English novelist and historian (born 1836 )[ 15]
June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan , Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1841 )
July 7 – Johanna Spyri , Swiss children's writer (born 1827 )
July 18 – Jan ten Brink , Dutch novelist (born 1834 )
July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse , English poet and critic (born 1840 )
July 27 – Brooke Foss Westcott , English theologian (born 1825 )
August 4 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold , American author (born 1858 )
August 9 – Vishnudas Bhave , Indian dramatist (unknown birth year)
October 28 – Paul Rée , German author and philosopher (born 1849 )
October 31 – Julien Leclercq , French Symbolist poet and art critic (born 1865 )
November 6 – Kate Greenaway , English children's illustrator and writer (born 1846 )[ 16]
November 21 – V. A. Urechia , Romanian historian, writer and politician (born 1834 )[ 17]
December 28 – Mary K. Buck , Bohemian-born American author (born 1849 )
Awards
References
^ Decree of Excommunication of Leo Tolstoy.
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century . Ecam Publication. p. 27. ISBN 0-942191-01-3 .
^ "I have a horror of weddings, the congratulations and the champagne, standing around, glass in hand with an endless grin on your face." Letter to Olga Knipper, April 19, 1901.
^ Stephen G. Kuehler (2008).
^ Concealing God: The "Everyman" revival, 1901–1903. Tufts University Ph.D. thesis, p. 108.
^ William Butler Yeats (30 June 2008). The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement . Simon and Schuster. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4391-0612-9 .
^ Râpeanu, Valeriu (December 2001). "Sămănătorul acum 100 de ani". Magazin Istoric .
^ Nobel Prize official website: From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901 . Accessed March 11, 2013.
^ "Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel" . Escritores.org . Retrieved 15 January 2019 .
^ "Resumen de El Zarco (Ignacio Manuel Altamirano)" . 28 June 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2019 .
^ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction . Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1 .
^ "Epik, Hryhorii" . encyclopediaofukraine.com . Retrieved 1 April 2024 .
^ "Pidmohylny, Valeriian" . encyclopediaofukraine.com . Retrieved 1 April 2024 .
^ "Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 16 February 2020 .
^ Charles Wells Moulton (1966). The mid-nineteenth century to Edwardianism . F. Ungar Publishing Company. p. 416.
^ Clark; Mary Bruccoli; Richard Layman; Gale Cengage; Clark Bruccoli; Mary Layman Richard (1994). British Children's Writers, 1880-1914 . Gale Research. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8103-5555-2 .
^ George Călinescu , Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent , Editura Minerva , Bucharest, 1986. Page 529