1907 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1907.
Events
- January 3 – The National Theatre opens in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- January 26 – Many of the audience boo the opening performance of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Disturbances continue for a week.[1]
- February 4 – The poet W. B. Yeats, at a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
- February 22 – Leonid Andreyev's symbolist drama The Life of Man («Жизнь человека», Zhizn cheloveka) is premièred at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg, directed by Vsevolod Meyerkhold. On December 12 it is performed for the first time at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski and Leopold Sulerzhitsky.[2]
- March – The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated AD 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in China. It is said to be "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".[3]
- March–April
- April 17 – August Strindberg's A Dream Play (Ett drömspel, 1901) receives its first performance, at the Swedish Theatre (Stockholm), with his ex-wife Harriet Bosse in the leading rôle.
- April 23 – Jack and Charmian London sail out of San Francisco Bay to begin the voyage described in The Cruise of the Snark (1911).
- May–September – Kenneth Grahame writes letters to his son that become the basis for The Wind in the Willows (1908).
- May – British publishers Thomas Nelson and William Collins, Sons (as "Books for the million") launch cheap hardback in-copyright imprints.
- May 15 – American humorist Gelett Burgess coins the term "blurb" for promotional text on a book jacket.[10] [11]
- June 26 – Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Oxford, England.
- September 7 – Gaston Leroux's pioneering locked room mystery, The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune), begins to be serialized in L'Illustration, Paris.
- November – While tutoring a Trieste businessman in English, James Joyce reveals that he is a writer, and his pupil, known to Joyce as Ettore Schmitz, proves to be the published novelist Italo Svevo. A literary friendship ensues.[12]
- Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
See main article: 1907 in poetry.
Non-fiction
Births
- February 1 – Günter Eich, German lyricist (died 1972)
- February 3 (probable date) – James A. Michener, American novelist (died 1997)[17]
- February 18 – Traian Herseni, Romanian social scientist and journalist (died 1980)
- February 21 – W. H. Auden, English poet (died 1973)[18]
- March 9 (February 24 O.S.) – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian, philosopher and novelist (died 1986)
- April 7 – Violette Leduc, French novelist and memoirist (died 1972)[19]
- April 30 – Jacob Hiegentlich, gay Dutch Jewish writer (suicide 1940)
- May 12 – Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born Chinese-British genre novelist (died 1993)[20]
- May 13 – Daphne du Maurier, English writer (died 1989)[21]
- May 27 – Rachel Carson, American environmentalist and author (died 1964)[22]
- June 2 – John Lehmann, English poet, autobiographer and publisher (died 1987)
- July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein, American author (died 1988)
- July 29 – Aileen Fox (née Henderson), English archaeologist (died 2005)
- July 31 – Gerald Butler, English crime writer (died 1988)
- August 12 – Miguel Torga, Portuguese author (died 1995)
- August 17 – Roger Peyrefitte, French author (died 2000)
- August 28 – Rupert Hart-Davis, English editor and publisher (died 1999)
- September 23 – Anne Desclos (pseudonyms include Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage), French journalist and erotic novelist (died 1998)[23]
- October 15 – Varian Fry, American journalist (died 1967)
- October 18 – Mihail Sebastian, Romanian Jewish playwright, essayist and novelist (died 1945)
- October 28 – John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (died 1987)
- November 14 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (died 2002)[24]
- November 27 – L. Sprague de Camp, American science fiction and fantasy author (died 2000)
- November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (died 1990)[25]
- November 30 – Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian (died 2012)
- December 10 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (died 1998)
- December 17 – Christianna Brand (Mary Christianna Lewis), British crime novelist (died 1988)
- December 18 – Christopher Fry, English dramatist (died 2005)
- December 19 – William Glynne-Jones, Welsh novelist and children's writer (died 1977)
- December 27 – Mary Howard, English romance novelist (died 1991)
- unknown dates
Deaths
- January 20 – Agnes Mary Clerke, English author on astronomy (born 1842)
- January 21 – Bertram Fletcher Robinson, English journalist, editor and author (born 1870)
- February 16 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)[26]
- March 9 – Frederic George Stephens, English critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (born 1828)
- March 19 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (born 1836)[27]
- April 23 – André Theuriet, French poet and novelist (born 1833)
- May 9 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta, American poet, travel writer (born 1834)
- May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (born 1848)
- May 18 – Mary De Morgan, English children's writer and suffragist (born 1850)[28]
- May 31 – Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist (born 1830)
- June 12 – Ellen Russell Emerson, American author and ethnologist (born 1837)
- July 17 – Hector Malot, French author (born 1830)
- July 19 – William Gunion Rutherford, Scottish classicist (born 1853)
- July 28 – Mildred A. Bonham, American travel writer (born 1840)
- August 1 – Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, American physician and writer (born 1843)
- August 10 – Marko Vovchok, Ukrainian novelist and short story writer (born 1833)[29]
- August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, English novelist and poet (appendicitis complications, born 1861)
- September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner (born 1839)
- September 7 – Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist and polygraph (born 1836)
- September 8 – Iosif Vulcan, Romanian poet, playwright and novelist (born 1841)
- October 6 – David Masson, Scottish critic and biographer (born 1822)
- October 29 – Mkrtich Khrimian, Armenian Catholicos, essayist and poet (died 1820)
- October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, American author (born 1824)
- November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French dramatist (tuberculosis, born 1873)
- November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet and painter (born 1869)
- December 28 – Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (born 1812)[30]
Awards
Donald Welldon Corrie[31]
Robert Cruttwell, Camoens[32]
Rudyard Kipling
Notes and References
- News: The Playboy of the Western World, Dublin, 1907 . . 2008-05-16 . London . Samantha . Ellis . 16 April 2003.
- K. A. Arabazhin (1910), «Леонидъ Андреевъ. Итоги творчества. Литературно-критическій этюдъ» [Leonid Andreyev: the Summary]. Saint Petersburg: Obshchestvennaya Polza Publishers. // «Типографія т-ва "Общественная Польза», В. Подъяч., 39. 1910.
- Web site: Sacred Texts: Diamond Sutra . https://web.archive.org/web/20131110093610/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html . dead . 2013-11-10 . . November 30, 2003.
- News: 1907-04-08 . Ultima oră. Nuoi perchezițiunĭ . Opinia . Iași . 3 .
- Book: Cernat, Paul . Paul Cernat . Avangarda românească și complexul periferiei: primul val . Cartea Românească . Bucharest . 2007 . 29 . 978-973-23-1911-6.
- Paul . de Coks . Expulzarea unui trubadur . Furnica . 139 . 1907 . 7. Traian . Săvulescu . Traian Săvulescu. Barbu Lăzăreanu . Studii. Revistă de Istorie și Filosofie . 1 . 1952 . 247.
- Ion . Roman . Scriitorii și 1907. I. C. Vissarion și Lupii . Contemporanul . 10 . 1957 . 3.
- Book: Cioculescu, Șerban . Șerban Cioculescu . Caragialiana . Editura Eminescu . Bucharest . 1974 . 119–124 . 6890267.
- News: 1928-06-27 . Mihail . Șerban . Cu d. Const. Banu, evocând trecutul. După 25 de ani dela apariția revistei Flacăra, fostul ei director ne vorbește despre începuturi, colaboratori și drumul parcurs . . Bucharest . 3.
- News: 1907-05-16 . . It's a "Blurb" Now to Puff New Book: Gelett Burgess Coins Odd Term for the Booksellers' Annual Dinner . 7.
- Book: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language . Crystal, David . David Crystal . Cambridge University Press . 1995 . 132 . 0521401798 . registration .
- News: Stanley . Price . Stanley Price (writer) . 2016-09-07 . James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship . . Dublin.
- Book: Tim Couzens. Murder at Morija: Faith, Mystery, and Tragedy on an African Mission. 2005. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-2529-5. 457.
- Web site: The Renée Vivien Translation Project . Valkyria . Melanie . Davis . 2015-12-04 . 2022-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220123005748/https://www.valkyria.ca/renee_vivien_page.html . dead .
- Book: Dominique Frémy. Quid. 2007. R. Laffont. 978-2-221-10677-8. 482.
- Book: J. Kenneth Van Dover. You Know My Method: The Science of the Detective. 1994. Popular Press. 978-0-87972-640-9. 125.
- Book: Richard Joseph. Richard Joseph's Bestsellers: Top Writers Tell how. 1997. Summersdale. 978-1-84024-009-2. 83.
- Book: Stan Smith. W.H. Auden. October 1995. Oxford University Press. 978-0-7463-0731-1. 3.
- Book: Hughes, Alex. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language. 1994. MHRA. 9780901286413. en.
- Book: The Bulletin. 1991. J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald. 129.
- Book: Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. 11 November 1982. Macmillan International Higher Education. 978-1-349-06127-3. 218.
- Book: Craig Waddell. And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. 2000. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-2219-0. 3.
- Book: Flower . John . Historical Dictionary of French Literature . 17 January 2013 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-7945-4 . 44 . en.
- Book: Kim A. Summers. Sally M. Walker. The Teacher's Calendar, School Year 2000-2001: The Day-by-day Directory to Holidays, Historic Events, Birthdays and Special Days, Weeks and Months. 2000. Contemporary Books. 978-0-8092-2521-7. 72.
- Book: Giuliano Dego. Moravia. 1967. Barnes & Noble. 2.
- Book: Italy; Documents and Notes. 1976. Centro di documentazione. 346.
- Book: Francis Fisher Browne. The Dial. 1968. Jansen, McClurg. 211.
- Book: Marilyn Pemberton. Out of the Shadows: The Life and Works of Mary De Morgan. 15 January 2013. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-4554-0. 8.
- http://encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkPath=pages\V\O\VovchokMarko.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Web site: Litteraturbanken Svenska klassiker som e-bok och epub . litteraturbanken.se . 2 April 2020.
- Book: King's College (University of Cambridge). A Register of Admissions to King's College, Cambridge, 1797-1925. 1929. J. Murray. 369.
- Book: The Theosophist. 1908. Theosophical Publishing House. 49.