1900 in literature

1900 in literature

The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Ermete Novelli establishes the Casa di Goldoni at Rome, in imitation of the Comédie Française.

New books

*L. Frank Baum
**"A New Wonderland"
**"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon — "The Infidel"
*Colette — "Claudine à l'école"
*Joseph Conrad — "Lord Jim"
*Marie Corelli — "The Master Christian"
*Stephen Crane — "Whilomville Stories"
*Gabriele D'Annunzio — "The Flame of Life" ( _it. Il Fuoco)
*Theodore Dreiser — "Sister Carrie"
*Robert Grant — "Unleavened Bread"
*Jerome K. Jerome — "Three Men on the Bummel"
*Rudyard Kipling — "Baa Baa, Black Sheep"
*Octave Mirbeau — "The Diary of a Chambermaid" ( _fr. Le Journal d'une femme de chambre)
*Emilio Salgari — "The Tigers of Mompracem" ( _it. Le tigri di Mompracem)
*Henryk Sienkiewicz — "The Teutonic Knights" ( _pl. Krzyżacy)
*Booth Tarkington — "Monsieur Beaucaire"
*Jules Verne
**"The Will of an Eccentric"
**"The Castaways of the Flag"
*Mary Augusta Ward — "Eleanor"
*H. G. Wells — "Love and Mr Lewisham"
*Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — "The Heart's Highway"

New drama

*Anton Chekhov — "Uncle Vanya"
*August Strindberg — "The Dance of Death (Dödsdansen)"

Poetry

*"Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900" (edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch)
*G. K. Chesterton — "The Wild Knight and Other Poems"
*Ismail Hossain Shiraji — "Anal Prabaha"

Non-fiction

*Arthur Conan Doyle — "The Great Boer War"
*"The Nuttall Encyclopaedia" (edited by James Wood)
*Sigmund Freud — "The Interpretation of Dreams"

Births

*January 9 — Emmanuel D'Astier, journalist
*February 19 — Giorgos Seferis, poet
*February 22 — Sean O'Faolain, short story writer
*April 19 — Richard Hughes, novelist
*April 24 — Elizabeth Goudge, novelist and children's author
*May 1 — Ignazio Silone, novelist
*June 29 — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, novelist
*July 18 — Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
*July 24 — Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
*September 7 — Taylor Caldwell, novelist
*September 9 — James Hilton, novelist
*October 16 — Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
*November 8 — Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), "Gone with the Wind" author.
*November 19 — Anna Seghers, novelist
*December 16 — V. S. Pritchett, short story writer

Deaths

* January 20 — Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
* January 29 — John Ruskin, critic
*January 31 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
* February 23 — Ernest Dowson, poet
* April 23 — Charles Isaac Elton, historian
*July 3 — Fernand Brouez, editor of La Société Nouvelle
* June 3 — Mary Kingsley, travel writer
* June 4 — Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
* June 5 — Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
* August 16 — José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, novelist
* August 25 — Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.
* August 28 — Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
*November 30 — Oscar Wilde, poet and dramatist

Awards

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