In January 1864.
Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?, the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, The Small House at Allington concludes publication in the Cornhill Magazine and is published in book form by George Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_You_Forgive_Her%3F
Can You Forgive Her? at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19500
#OTD in 1817.
English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which all feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon
Book about Benjamin Hydon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6756
Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born #OTD in 1870.
He gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry."
Irish astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke died #OTD in 1907.
During her career she wrote reviews of many books, including some written in French, German, Greek, or Italian. In 1885, she published her best known work, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. This book became commonly used for its discussion of the spectroscope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke
Books about or by Agnes Mary Clerke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Agnes+Mary+Clerke&submit_search=Search
A most interesting chart. And most revealing.
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"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
#OTD in 1916.
James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form, in New York by B. W. Huebsch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217
Wrath of the Sky, the second volume of Sky Children, is available for preorder! The release date is set for February 7, 2025.
You can learn more at my website:
https://owentyme.us/books/sky-children/wrath-of-the-sky.html
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https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky
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What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
The Scientific Revolution was characterized by a major shift in the way of thinking. Historically, women’s contributions, however, were largely overlooked.
By Mike Cohen
https://www.thecollector.com/role-of-women-in-scientific-revolution/
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#OTD in 1789.
William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.
The novel was first published anonymously, but was popularly attributed to poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton because of the resemblance between the plot and a scandal in her family; Brown was not correctly identified as the author until 1894.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy
"Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept."
In January 1909.
T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme
Canzoni & Ripostes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783
From January till September 1905.
L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.
For several decades in the twentieth century, the collection was a "lost" book by Baum; it resurfaced when the International Wizard of Oz Club published the stories in one volume in 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Fairy_Tales
The Animal Fairy Tales at Delineator:
https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth1891092_64_2#page/106/mode/1up
German poet and novelist Achim von Arnim was born #OTD in 1781.
He is best known as one of the key figures of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). He influenced late Romantics and Realists such as Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm, particularly through the Wunderhorn.
Books by Achim von Arnim at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848
"Poet, never chase the dream.
Laugh yourself and turn away.
Mask your hunger, let it seem
Small matter if he come or stay;..."
#OTD in 1918.
The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in The Nation). He will die by the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
Robert Graves at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628
#OTD in 1902.
The first example of a Sherlockian game – a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in The Cambridge Review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69
Three women translators who bridged cultures
Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet
by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @europeana (from the archives)
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures
Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search
American journalist Nellie Bly died #OTD in 1922.
She was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, & for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. Bly was also an inventor, receiving U.S. patent 697,553 for a novel milk can & U.S. patent 703,711 for a stacking garbage can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
Nellie Bly at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648
Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died #OTD in 2002.
She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber's Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.
Man Finds Rare Trove of Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings and Manuscripts in His Father's Attic
By Sarah Kuta
Books by A. A. Milne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!"
#OTD in 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven
The Raven at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192
"Ameisen" steht in der #Bücherwabe für die These von Bayo Akomolafe, dass wir hinsichtlich der Denkwege, die unsere Lebens- und Wirtschaftsform bestimmen, in einer tödlichen Logik gefangen sind, wie Ameisen in einer #Ameisenmühle: Ameisen folgen den Duftspuren ihrer Vorgänger und laufen im Kreis bis sie sterben.
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In Febraury 1895.
The Bookman (New York), a monthly, is first published by Dodd, Mead and Company with Harry Thurston Peck as editor. It publishes the first bestseller list, which is headed by Frank R. Stockton's novel The Adventures of Captain Horn. A sequel, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, was released in 1897.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Horn
The Adventures of Captain Horn at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12190
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
In February 1887.
Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterville_Ghost
The Canterville Ghost at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14522
![von Koch, Helge (1904). "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691")
