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
The Grey Paw (Spòg liath)
In the big church of Beauly (Eaglais mhor na manachain, i.e. of the Monastery) mysterious and unearthly sights and sounds were seen and heard at night, and none who went to watch the churchyard or burial-places within the church ever came back alive…
—from Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1902), via @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58894/pg58894-images.html#Page_194
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #folklore #folktale #supernatural #Halloween
“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
"To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops."
Summer on the Lakes (1844)
Books by Margaret Fuller at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2829
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 1913.
Marcel Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, volume 1 of À la recherche du temps perdu, is published by Éditions Grasset in Paris at the author's expense.
Du côté de chez Swann at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2650
#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.
Writing The Occult's day of talks and workshops themed around hauntology is taking place online on Sat 30 November!
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#OTD in 1920.
Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones plays at the Playwright's Theater in New York City with Charles Sidney Gilpin in the title role.
#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
#OTD in 1797.
Jane Austen's father writes to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he is interested in seeing the manuscript of Jane's recently completed novel First Impressions (later re-titled Pride and Prejudice); Cadell declines.
The odd illustrations of Charles Dickens's Christmas books
While Charles Dickens is often remembered for his love of yuletide festivities, the illustrations he commissioned for his Christmas stories may make you question such an opinion.
By Tim Stokes
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67787183
Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
In November 1904.
Hall Caine's novel The Prodigal Son is published by Heinemann in London and opens in a dramatic adaptation at the Grand Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man.
The Prodigal Son at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51950
#OTD in 1793.
The French dramatist Olympe de Gouges is sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal. Both she and her prosecutors quote the manuscript of her unfinished play La France Sauvée in evidence.
Les droits de la femme at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53595
In November 1848.
The London publisher George Routledge begins issuing the Railway Library series of cheap reprint novels, pioneering the yellow-back genre, with an edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot.
The Pilot at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7974
Harry Clarke’s Illustrations for Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1919)
#OTD in 1846.
The String of Pearls: a Romance, probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, begins serialization in Britain. This is the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_String_of_Pearls
The String of Pearls at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59828
"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
#OTD in 1748.
The first instalment of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, is published anonymously by John Cleland to raise money to free himself from the London debtors' prison. It is considered by some to be the first modern erotic novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill
Memoirs of Fanny Hill at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305
#OTD in 1899.
Leo Tolstoy completes his last novel, Resurrection («Воскресение», Voskreseniye), published serially in Niva. The book is the final of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime.
Ressurection at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1938
A Brief History of the Muses
Scholar Alison Habens tells us more about the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ancient poets.
via @JSTOR_Daily
Jura: George Orwell’s Scottish Hideaway
Discover the austere island retreat where Big Brother was born.
By: Rob Crossan
https://daily.jstor.org/jura-george-orwells-scottish-hideaway/
Abby Morton Diaz was born #OTD in 1821.
Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, she became involved in the reform movements of the 19th century, particularly those related to women's suffrage, education, and labor.
Abby Morton Diaz at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2166
In November 1887.
Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes & his friend & chronicler Dr. Watson.
