This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1888 .
February 9 – During Joseph Conrad's career at sea as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, he departs from Bangkok for Sydney in his first command as master, on the British barque Otago . This provides a basis for his novella The Shadow Line 1916 ).March 6 – On the day of Amos Bronson Alcott 's funeral at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts) , his daughter, novelist Louisa May Alcott , already in poor health, suffers a fatal stroke.[1] March 16 – Foundation stone for a new National Library of Greece building is laid in Athens .May 26 – In London , Punch George and Weedon Grossmith 's humorous The Diary of a Nobody [2] [3] June 3 – Ernest Thayer 's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat " is first published under the pen name "Phin" as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner July – Arthur Conan Doyle 's first Sherlock Holmes detective novel , A Study in Scarlet 1887 ), is first published separately as a book, by Ward Lock & Co in London with illustrations by the author's father, Charles Altamont Doyle .
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Sholem Aleichem edits the first issue of the anthology Di Yidishe Folksbibliotek in Kiev , giving important exposure to young writers in Yiddish , including I. L. Peretz 's long ballad "Monish".[6] The Finnish epic Kalevala John Martin Crawford .[7]
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche writes Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert 1889 ), Der Antichrist 1895 ) and his autobiography, Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist 1908 ), his last works before his total mental collapse. probable – The sexual memoir My Secret Life Henry Spencer Ashbee , begins publication, being printed in Amsterdam for clandestine sale in Britain. New books
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January 24 – Vicki Baum , Austrian-born writer (died 1960 )January 25 – A. L. Zissu , Romanian novelist and Zionist leader (died 1956 )February 10 – Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian modernist poet and writer (died 1970 )February 19 – José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian writer (died 1928 )April 26 – Anita Loos , American novelist and screenwriter (died 1981 )June 13 – Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese writer (died 1935 )July 23 – Raymond Chandler , American novelist and screenwriter (died 1959 )September 4 – Margaret Henley , daughter of W. E. Henley and J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (died 1894 )September 22 – Lucia Mantu , born Camelia Nădejde, Romanian writer (died 1971 )September 26 – T. S. Eliot , American-born English poet and playwright (died 1965 )October 14 – Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand short story writer (died 1923 )October 16 – Eugene O'Neill , American playwright and Nobel laureate (died 1953 )October 26 – Dem. Theodorescu , Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1946 )
January 30 – Mary Howitt , English writer, poet and translator (born 1799 )March 4 – Amos Bronson Alcott , American writer and philosopher (born 1799 )March 6 – Louisa May Alcott , American novelist (born 1832 )[13] March 14 – James Hogg , Scottish-born publisher (born 1806 )April 15 – Matthew Arnold , English poet (born 1822 )May 12 – Edward Lear , English writer of comic verse and artist (born 1812 )May 27 – Františka Stránecká , Czech writer and collector of Moravian folklore (born 1839 )August 9 – Charles Cros , French poet (born 1842 )August 20 – Henry Richard , Welsh political writer (born 1812 )September 24 – Karl von Prantl , German philosopher (born 1820 )September 30 – William Gifford Palgrave , English Arabic scholar and writer (born 1826 )[14] November 17 – Dora d'Istria , Romanian-Albanian writer (born 1828 )December 8 – Frederick Apthorp Paley , English scholar (born 1815 )December 23 – Laurence Oliphant , Scottish travel writer and novelist (born 1829 ) References
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^ Louisa May Alcott: Final Days . Retrieved 2013-02-06.^ "The Diary of a Nobody" . Punch, or the London Charivari . 94 : 241. 26 May 1888.^ Morton, Peter (Spring 2005). "The Diary of a Nobody " . The Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies . 36 (1). Leicester: University of Leicester. ^ Brewer, John Francis (1889). The Curse upon Mitre Square. A. D. 1530–1888 . New York: J. W. Lovell Company. OCLC 43935642 . ^ Woods, Paul; Baddeley, Gavin (2009). Saucy Jack: The Elusive Ripper . Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-0-7110-3410-5 ^ Sofii͡a Dubnova-Ėrlikh; Sophie Dubnov-Erlich; Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (1991). The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History ISBN 0-253-31836-X ^ Eino Friberg; George C. Schoolfield; Bjorn Landstrom (1988). The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People ISBN 978-951-1-10137-6 ^ Henry James (1888). The Aspern Papers: Louisa Pallant, The Modern Warning ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ Adams, James Eli (2009). A History of Victorian Literature ISBN 978-0-631-22082-4 . Retrieved 2010-10-28 . ^ Lady Wilde (1888). "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland" . LibraryIreland . Retrieved 2019-01-13 . ^ Fiennes, Celia. "Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary" . A Vision of Britain Through Time . University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 2019-01-13 . ^ "Louisa May Alcott | American author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 26 March 2019 .^ Cecil Y. Lang; Edgar Finley Shannon (July 1987). The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1851-1870 ISBN 978-0-674-52584-9 ^ "Gordon in Africa: Newdigate prize poem, 1888" . Hathi Trust . Shrimpton ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 1888. Retrieved 26 March 2019 .
