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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1877.
Events
[edit]- January 24 – Émile Zola's L'Assommoir (sometimes translated as "The Dram Shop"), seventh in his novel sequence Les Rougon-Macquart, is first published in book format a few weeks after its serialisation ends in Le Bien public (Paris). It sells more than 50,000 copies by the end of the year.
- February 24–March 17 – Robert Louis Stevenson's first published work of fiction, the novella "An Old Song", appears anonymously in four episodes in the magazine London. It is first attributed to Stevenson in 1980.[1]
- July – The ending of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is published in Russkiy vestnik.[2]
- July 15 – "Coppino Law" in Italy makes elementary schools mandatory, free and secular.
- October – Robert Louis Stevenson publishes the short story "A Lodging for the Night" (in Temple Bar magazine), later collected in New Arabian Nights.
- October 15 – Edward L. Wheeler's first story featuring Deadwood Dick, set on the American frontier, opens the first number of Beadle's Half-Dime Library, published in New York.[3]
- November 5 – The Mitchell Library is established in Glasgow.[4]
- November 14 – Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater (having been first published on October 11 in Copenhagen).[5]
- November 24 – Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty, his grooms and companions: the autobiography of a horse "translated from the equine" is published by Jarrolds of Norwich in England. Her only book, published five months before her death arising from long-standing illness, it rapidly establishes its position as an all-time bestseller, going on to sell fifty million copies[6] and becoming the sixth best seller in the English language.[7]
- December 30 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg marries his mistress, the divorced actress Siri von Essen, a member of the Finnish-Swedish minor nobility.
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- R. M. Ballantyne – The Settler and the Savage
- R. D. Blackmore – Erema; or, my father's sin
- Ned Buntline – Buffalo Bill Trails the Devil Head
- Bankim Chatterjee
- Chandrasekhar
- Rajani
- Ion Creangă – Harap Alb
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Сон смешного человека, short story)
- Maria Fetherstonhaugh – Kilcorran
- Gustave Flaubert – Three Tales
- Henry James – The American
- Jan Neruda – Povídky malostranské (Tales of the Little Quarter)
- Margaret Oliphant – Carità
- William Clark Russell – The Wreck of the Grosvenor
- Theodor Storm – Aquis Submersus
- Anthony Trollope
- The American Senator
- Is He Popenjoy?
- Jacint Verdaguer – L'Atlàntida
- Jules Verne
- Émile Zola – L'Assommoir
Children and young people
[edit]- Louisa May Alcott – Under the Lilacs
- Mary Louisa Molesworth (Mrs. Molesworth) – The Cuckoo Clock
- Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
- Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton) – A Peep Behind the Scenes
Drama
[edit]- James Albery – The Pink Dominos
- José Echegaray – Saint or Madman? (O locura o santidad)
- W. S. Gilbert – Engaged
- Henrik Ibsen – The Pillars of Society (Samfundets støtter)
- Adolphe L'Arronge – Hasemann's Daughters
Poetry
[edit]- Edward Lear – Laughable Lyrics (published December 1876, dated 1877)[8]
- Stéphane Mallarmé – Poésies
Non-fiction
[edit]- Henry Spencer Ashbee (as Pisanus Fraxi) – Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical on Curious and Uncommon Books
- Helena Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
- Florence Caddy – Household Organisation
- Amelia Edwards – A Thousand Miles up the Nile
- Henry Miers Elliot (ed. by John Dowson) – The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians
- Kenneth Mackenzie – Royal Masonic Cyclopedia
- Lewis H. Morgan – Ancient Society
- Shen Fu (沈復) – Six Records of a Floating Life (autobiography; first printed edition)
Births
[edit]- January 4 – Sextil Pușcariu, Romanian linguist, philologist and journalist (died 1948)
- February 7 – Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet" (died 1930)
- March 6 – Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (died 1957)[9]
- April 14 – Donald Maxwell, English travel writer and illustrator (died 1936)[10]
- April 29 – Henri Stahl, Romanian historian, short story writer, memoirist and stenographer (died 1942)
- June 11 – Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet (died 1909)
- July 2 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (died 1962)
- August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist and pastor (died 1951)
- September 1 – Rex Beach, American novelist and playwright (died 1949)
- September 9 – James Agate, English diarist and critic (died 1947)
- November 15 – William Hope Hodgson, English fiction writer (killed in action 1918)
Deaths
[edit]- January 29 – Caroline Howard Jervey, American author, poet, and teacher (born 1823)
- February 18 – Henrietta A. Bingham, American writer and editor (born 1841)
- April – Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller, German philologist (born 1802)
- June 15 – Caroline Norton (née Caroline Sheridan), English poet, pamphleteer and social reformer (born 1808)
- June 17 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian and pastor (born 1805)
- August 30 – Toru Dutt, multilingual Indian Bengali poet, novelist and translator, of pulmonary tuberculosis (born 1856)
- September 12 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (born 1833)
- October 10 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and critic (born 1801)
- October 16 – Théodore Barrière, French dramatist (born 1823)
- October 28 – Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (born 1824)
- December 12 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (born 1829)
References
[edit]- ^ Swearingen, Roger G. (1980). ""An Old Song" (1877): Robert Louis Stevenson's First Published Story, A New Discovery in the Yale Libraries". The Yale University Library Gazette. 54 (3): 101–113. Retrieved Sep 9, 2021.
- ^ Stenbock-Fermor, Elizabeth (1975). The Architecture of Anna Karenina. B. R. Grüner. ISBN 1588116751.
- ^ Johannsen, Albert (1950). "Wheeler, Edward L." The House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels: the story of a vanished literature. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Libraries. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
- ^ "The opening of the Mitchell Library". The Scotsman. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Hanssen, Jens-Morten (2001-08-10). "Facts about Pillars of Society". Ibsen.net. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ "Fifty million copies of Black Beauty have been sold in the years since Anna Sewell's publisher paid her £20 for the story". The Times. London. 29 February 2008.
- ^ Wells, E. B.; Grimshaw, A., eds. (1989). The annotated "Black Beauty".
- ^ "A Chronology of Edward Lear's Life". Edward Lear Home Page. nonsenselit.org. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
- ^ Hay, Ann G. (1978). "Fyleman, Rose (Amy)". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. London: Macmillan. p. 485. ISBN 978-0-33323-414-3.
- ^ The Year's Art. 1937. p. 314.