German novelist and translator Dorothea von Schlegel was born #OTD in 1764.
She met the poet & critic Friedrich von Schlegel in the salon of her friend Henriette Herz in 1797, after which Dorothea divorced Simon Veit in 1799.
literature
Swiss illustrator Eugène Grasset died #OTD in 1917.
Grasset was an engraver, poster artist, decorator and architect, representative of the Art Nouveau movement. He exercised his talent in all areas of the decorative arts: architecture, decoration, illustration, graphics, furniture, jewelry, stained glass...
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Dracula author's lost story unearthed after 134 years.
An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.
By Maia Davies @BBCNews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo
"Gibbet Hill" published in Supplement to the Daily Express in 17th December 1890 is available here:
https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000924296
Books by Bram Stoker at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/190
"Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother--Death."
Plays and Stories
Austrian author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler died #OTD in 1931.
He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler’s works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900.
Books by Arthur Schnitzler at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3010
#OTD in 1849.
American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe
Books by Edgar Allan Poe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481
"Tupi or not tupi - That is the question."
Manifesto Antropófago, 1928.
Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic Oswald de Andrade died #OTD in 1954.
Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna).
#OTD in 1893.
Jerome K. Jerome founds To-Day, "A weekly magazine-journal", in London. However, he had to withdraw from both publications (The Idler) because of financial difficulties and a libel suit.
Books by Jerome K. Jerome at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173
#art #history:
‘kiss me & you will see how important i am.’
i'm wishing a sketchy birthday to la plath, born #otd in 1932 - &, even though i've not a chance in high hades of achieving a scintilla of the written eloquence that she displayed, here's my scribbled ode. [cheeky wee thread follows]
#sylviaPlath #illustration #poet #literature #poetry
Three women translators who bridged cultures
Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.
by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures
Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit.
Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death
By Jessica Steinberg
https://www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/
In December 1891.
Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto" (collected in Life's Little Ironies), which he regards as his best short story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies
Life's Little Ironies at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047
In November 1907.
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.
In November 1852.
Leo Tolstoy's debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month's issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik.
"[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them."
#OTD in 1811.
Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton's Military Library.
In November 1868.
Robert Browning's narrative poem The Ring and the Book begins four-part publication by Smith, Elder & Co. in London. It is a major commercial and critical success.
#OTD in 1938.
Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
The War of the Worlds at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36
Becoming Beatrice
Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?
By: Emily Zarevich
https://daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/
Divine Comedy at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004
"If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter."
Margaret Mead died #OTD in 1978.
In November 1848.
William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The History of Pendennis begins its serial publication. The publication was paused for 3 months following the author’s illness after the September 1849 part.
The History of Pendennis at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”
Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism
By Randall Fuller via @publicdomainrev
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter
In November 1850
A new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems is published by Chapman & Hall in London, including in volume 2 her Sonnets from the Portuguese.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21161
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2002
#OTD in 1850.
Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.
#OTD in 1895
Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, Jude the Obscure is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title Hearts Insurgent in Harper's Magazine.
#OTD in 1902
Leo Tolstoy's drama The Power of Darkness (written in 1886) has its Russian-language première at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Darkness
The Power of Darkness at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661
"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
French writer, deist and philosopher Voltaire was born #OTD in 1694. He established himself as one of the leading writers of the enlightenment.
Books by Voltaire at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913
