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Overview of the events of 1910 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1910 .
Events
January 8 – Serialisation of
Gaston Leroux 's novel
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) concludes in the Paris newspaper
Le Gaulois .
[1]
January 30 –
Uncle Wiggily Longears, a rheumatic rabbit created by
Howard R. Garis , makes his debut in the
Newark News (U.S.)
March –
Lesotho author
Thomas Mofolo completes his novel
Chaka ; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published until 1925.
[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 magazine (London), having previously appeared on June 23 in "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in
The Saturday Evening Post (
Philadelphia ).
September 1 –
Herbert Beerbohm Tree 's elaborate revival of
Shakespeare 's
Henry VIII opens in London. It will run for 254 consecutive performances.
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] at
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
Essay
Leonardo da Vinci:A memory of his childhood by Sigmund freud (published 1910)
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
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 )
September 30 –
Edward Hyams , English novelist and historian (died
1975 )
October 15 –
Haddis Alemayehu , Ethiopian politician and novelist (died
2003 )
November 9 –
P. M. Hubbard , English crime writer (died
1980 )
November 17 –
Rachel de Queiroz , Brazilian author (died
2003 )
December 19
December 24
unknown date –
Betty Miller , Irish-born Jewish writer (died
1965 )
Deaths
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 )
Awards
References
^ Gaston Leroux (8 March 2012).
The Phantom of the Opera . OUP Oxford. p. 21.
ISBN
978-0-19-162381-3 .
^
a
b Thomas Mofolo (21 May 2013).
Chaka . Waveland Press. p. 11.
ISBN
978-1-4786-0972-8 .
^ Blum, Cinzia Sartini (1996).
The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power . University of California Press.
ISBN
9780520916272 . , p. 181.
^ 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 . 1921. 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 . Bibliolife DBA of Bibilio Bazaar II LLC.
ISBN
978-1-341-46121-7 .