In October 1895.
Rudyard Kipling publishes the story "Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever" in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine in the United States, concluding the series collected in The Second Jungle Book, published in England in November.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowgli
The Jungle Book at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/236
#OTD in 1861.
Mrs. Henry Wood's 'sensation novel' East Lynne is published in London in three volumes, as its serialisation is concluded in The New Monthly Magazine. This year also sees its first theatrical adaptation, as Edith, or The Earl's Daughter, staged in New York City. The novel was rejected by two publishers before being accepted by Richard Bentley (1884).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lynne
East Lynne at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3322
Australian writer Miles Franklin died #OTD in 1954.
She is best known for her pioneering novel "My Brilliant Career". She was an outspoken advocate for women's rights and played a key role in advancing Australian literature, particularly through her contributions to the depiction of rural life in Australia. The Miles Franklin Award was set up according to the her will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Franklin
Books by Miles Franklin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4051
#OTD in 1837.
Andreas Munch's first play, Kong Sverres Ungdom, opens the Christiania Theatre's new building in Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Munch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiania_Theatre
Original publication available at National Library of Norway:
https://www.nb.no/search?q=Kong%20Sverres%20Ungdom
"A poet of one mood in all my lays,
Ranging all life to sing my only love,
Like a west wind across the world I move,
Sweeping my harp of floods mine own wild way."
British writer and poet Alice Meynell was born #OTD in 1847.
She was considered for the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom twice, first in 1892 on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and later in 1913 on the death of Alfred Austin, but was never appointed to the position.
In October 1796.
Caroline von Wolzogen's novel Agnes von Lilien begins anonymous serialization in the monthly Die Horen, edited by her brother-in-law Friedrich Schiller.
It is considered an important work of German Romanticism and was one of the earliest German novels written by a woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_von_Wolzogen
Wolzogen's works in the German writer's Sophie database:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/do/search/?q=author_lname%3A%22Wolzogen%22%20author_fname%3A%22Caroline%20von%22&start=0&context=5485626&facet=
French writer Juliette Adam was born #OTD in 1836.
She gave an account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, in Le roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse. She published in 1858 her Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage, in defense of Daniel Stern (pen name of Marie d'Agoult) and George Sand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Adam
Books by Juliette Adams at PG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Adam
Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, newspaper editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – deserves to be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the 19th century
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#OTD in 1879.
The collected works of the American poet Ethel Lynn Beers are published as All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems. The title poem is her best-known work. On the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_Along_the_Potomac
In 1863, the poem was set to music by John Hill Hewitt. This song may have inspired the title of the English translation of Erich Maria Remarque's World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
#OTD in 1802.
The Edinburgh Review, a reforming quarterly, is first published.
Among the most notable of the foreign publications it observed was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, which Adam Smith reviewed in the journal's second and final issue, published in March 1756.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
via @NobelPrize
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/press-release/
#OTD in 1869.
Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.
Rossetti then published the contents in Poems (1870). These became part of Rossetti's sonnet sequence entitled The House of Life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal#After_Siddal's_death
The House of Life at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3692
#OTD in 1902.
Thousands attend the funeral of the French novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. They include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.
On 4 June 1908, just five years and nine months after his death, his remains were relocated to the Panthéon, where he shares a crypt with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola#Death
Books by Émile Zola at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/528
American illustrator, author and naturalist William Hamilton Gibson was born #OTD in 1850.
Gibson illustrated S. A. Drake's In the Heart of the White Mountains, and E. P. Roe's Nature's Serial Story; and his own books, The Complete American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways; Happy Hunting Grounds; Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Sharp Eyes; and My Studio Neighbours.
Books illustrated or by W. Hamilton Gibson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=W.+Hamilton+Gibson&submit_search=Go%21
The River Rukarara
I was born on the banks of the Rukarara, but I have no memory of it. My memories come from my mother.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/10/02/the-river-rukarara/
By Scholastique Mukasonga via @parisreview
American poet Emily Dickinson was born #OTD in 1830.
She was renowned for her unique, introspective, and innovative style. Though she lived a reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson's poetry has had a profound and lasting impact on literature. She wrote nearly 1,800 poems, though only a few were published during her lifetime, often without her consent and heavily edited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
Books by Emily Dickinson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996
French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist Albert Robida died #OTD in 1926.
He was an early pioneer of science fiction and founding father of science fiction art. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. In the 1900s he created 520 illustrations for Pierre Giffard's weekly serial La Guerre Infernale.
Albert Robida at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1043
#OTD in 1915.
Leonid Andreyev's play He Who Gets Slapped premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre. While well-liked by the public, critical reaction to the work was initially negative in Russia.
Books by Leonid Andreyev at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1871
#OTD in 1893.
Finley Peter Dunne introduces the fictional character Mr. Dooley in the Chicago Evening Post.
Dunne's essays contain the bartender's commentary on various topics (often national or international affairs). They became extremely popular during the 1898 Spanish–American War and remained so afterwards; they are collected in several books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dooley
Books by Finley Peter Dunne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1559
English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist Isabella Bird died #OTD in 1904.
Despite health problems in her youth, Bird became an avid traveler later in life. She authored several books about her travels: "The Hawaiian Archipelago," "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan," and "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains." Bird was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird
Isabella Bird at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/393
"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."
Letter 8 - On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
~Friedrich Schiller
16 Great Sculptors Who Changed the History of Art, from Michelangelo to Rodin
From the ancient Greeks to 20th-century Modernists, this look at 16 famous sculptors is a timeline of the development of Western art.
By Jessica Stewart via @mymodernmet
https://mymodernmet.com/famous-sculptors-art-history/
About sculptures at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sculpture&submit_search=Go%21
A tribute to some pioneer women translators
By Marie Lebert via @AUSIT_TI
American physician, poet, and polymath Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. died #OTD in 1894.
Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). In addition to his work as an author and poet, he also served as a physician, professor, lecturer and inventor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/387
#OTD in 1892.
Ida B. Wells began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation, in 2020.
