#OTD in 1919.
Sylvia Beach, opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. She published there James Joyce's book Ulysses (1922), and encouraged the publication of & sold copies of Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923).
books
#OTD in 1850.
Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the UK in succession to William Wordsworth, but only after Samuel Rogers has declined the offer because of his age and Tennyson is assured that birthday odes will not be required of him.
Edited 241d ago
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55
#OTD in 1918.
Wilfred Owen is killed in action aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal, with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Shrewsbury a week later on Armistice Day.
Endre Ady was born #OTD in 1877.
Some of his notable poetry collections include "Új versek" (New Poems, 1906), "A Holnap" (Tomorrow, 1908), and "A halottak élén" (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).
Books by Endre Ady at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489
Manetʼs Illustrations for Poeʼs "The Raven"
Artist Édouard Manet collaborated with poet Stéphane Mallarmé on an illustrated edition of the poet's translation of Edgar Allan Poeʼs The Raven in 1874 and 1875. via Treasures of the NYPL
https://web.archive.org/web/20180727182730/http://exhibitions.nypl.org/treasures/items/show/184
The Raven (bilingual edition) by Edgar Allan Poe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082
Audio file available translated by Charles Baudelaire via @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/Incipitblog-Edgar_Poe-Le_corbeau
Edited 224d ago
"My sleep had been embroidered with dim dreams,
My soul had been a lawn besprinkled o'er
With flowers, and stirring shades of baffled beams."
In December 1816.
John Keats composes the poem "Sleep and Poetry" while staying at the Hampstead house of his friend Leigh Hunt, who introduces him to Shelley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_Poetry
Sleep and Poetry available in: Sleep-Book by Leolyn Louise Everett
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16637
#OTD in 1862.
Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell
French and American writer, journalist and pianist Ève Curie was born #OTD in 1904.
She is best known for writing a biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937). Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF.
#OTD in 1893.
Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in The Strand Magazine, that Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891.
When I joined Mastodon two years ago, the #7Books #7BooksToKnowMe hashtags were a thing, and I had fun compiling my list. How do I choose only SEVEN?!? At the time I declared that my list was by no means permanent. With that said, I feel an update is past due, especially since one of the authors from my original list turned out to be... problematic. I'm posting the original list, as well as the current version (images to save characters, with #AltText of course).
#Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon
Higuchi Ichiyō, a Japanese writer during the Meiji era, died #OTD in 1896.
She was Japan's first professional woman writer of modern literature, specializing in short stories and poetry, and was also an extensive diarist.
#OTD in 1924.
The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is in fact another galaxy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
In November 1909.
E. M. Forster's science fiction short story "The Machine Stops" is published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
The Eternal Moment at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890
#OTD in 1897.
The comedy The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl), by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg, opens in Berlin. Decades later it will be turned into a successful musical play.
In a way similar to The Sound of Music and the three Sissi movies, the play and its film versions have contributed to the popular image of Austria as an alpine idyll.
British Library Exhibit Reveals Lives of Medieval Women
By Madeleine Muzdakis
Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play
Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist.
By Anna Souter
https://hyperallergic.com/968411/tove-jansson-found-refuge-in-play/
#OTD in 1930.
American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.
Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/
#OTD in 1878.
Henry Irving's production of Hamlet, with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management). The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics' approval.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
Hamlet at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is today lauded as the first science fiction novel as well as a seminal work of Gothic horror.
By Lauren Jones
https://www.thecollector.com/mary-shelley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/
#OTD in 1845.
The American actress Charlotte Cushman plays Romeo to her sister Susan's Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Cushman
Romeo and Juliet at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1513
#OTD in 1785.
The Marquis de Sade finishes writing The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 Journées de Sodome) while imprisoned in the Bastille; it will not be published until 1904.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_120_Days_of_Sodom
#OTD in 1877.
Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. Sewell wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.
"Knowledge, like matter, he would affirm, was divisible in infinitum; — that the grains and scruples were as much a part of it as the gravitation of the whole world."
Tristram Shandy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne