Events from the year 1868 in literature .
January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin 1867 ), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals.[1]
January 4 –August 8 – Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Moonstone : a RomanceAll the Year Round Tinsley Brothers of London.[2] mystery fiction (with its introduction of the police detective Sergeant Cuff) and the psychological thriller .[3] January 9 – John William De Forest , writing for The Nation American literature ;[4] Great American Novel ", is the first known use of the term.April 29 – The Court of King's Bench (England) decides on appeal the legal case Regina v. Hicklin on interpretation of the word "obscene" in the Obscene Publications Act 1857 , applying the "Hicklin test ": that any part of a publication with a "tendency... to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall"[5] [6] September – The first volume of Louisa May Alcott 's novel for girls Little Women Roberts Brothers of Boston , Massachusetts.
November
December – The Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street) in London opens with the première of the recently bankrupted Henry James Byron 's semi-autobiographical comedy Cyril's Success .[8]
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January 5 – Edward Garnett , English writer, critic and literary editor (died 1937 )February 23 – W. E. B. Du Bois , American sociologist, historian and Pan-Africanist (died 1963 )[11] March 28 – Maxim Gorky , Russian novelist and dramatist (died 1936 )[12] April 1 – Edmond Rostand , French poet and novelist (died 1918 )[13] May 6 – Gaston Leroux , French journalist and novelist (died 1927 )[14] May 7 – Stanisław Przybyszewski , Polish novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1927 )[15] July 10 – Afevork Ghevre Jesus , Ethiopian novelist and linguist (died 1947 )August 6 – Paul Claudel , French poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1955 )[16] August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters , American poet, biographer, dramatist and lawyer (died 1950 )September 14 – Théodore Botrel , French poet and dramatist (died 1925 )October 18 – Ernst Didring , Swedish novelist (died 1931 )November 5 – Kassian Bogatyrets , Rusyn priest, politician and historian (died 1960 )November 30 – Angela Brazil , English writer of schoolgirl fiction (died 1947 )[17] c. December 12 – Stephen Hudson (born Sydney Schiff), English novelist, translator and arts patron (died 1944 )
December 19 – Eleanor H. Porter , American novelist (died 1920 )[18] December 25 – Ahmed Shawqi , Egyptian poet (died 1932 )December 28 – Bucura Dumbravă , Romanian novelist and spiritualist (died 1926 )
January 6 – Scarlat Vârnav , Romanian journalist, educationist and librarian (digestive illness, year of birth unknown )January 24 – John David Macbride , English Arabist and academic (born 1778 )March 8 – Jón Thoroddsen elder , Icelandic poet and novelist (born 1818 or 1819)[19] June 6 – Daniel Pierce Thompson , American novelist and lawyer (born 1795 )June 15 – Robert Vaughan , English historian and religious writer (born 1795 )June 18 – Charles Harpur , Australian poet (tuberculosis, born 1813 )July 6 – Samuel Lover , Irish writer and composer (born 1797 )[20] July 30 – Mihály Tompa , Hungarian lyric poet (born 1819 )August 24 – Constantin Negruzzi (Costache Negruzzi), Romanian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1808 )August 25 – Jacob van Lennep , Dutch poet and novelist (born 1802 )[21] September 24 – Henry Hart Milman , English historian (born 1791 )[22] November 30 – August Blanche , Swedish journalist, novelist and statesman (heart attack; born 1811 )
References Edit
^ Ferragus (23 January 1868). "La littérature putride". Le Figaro ^ Allingham, Philip V. (2007-06-08). "Wilkie Collins The Moonstone in Serial and Triple-Decker Publication" . The Victorian Web . Retrieved 2013-10-15 . CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link ) ^ T. S. Eliot calls it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins".David, Deirdre (2001). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel ISBN 9780521646192 ^ DeForest, John (9 January 1868). "The Great American Novel" . The Nation . New York. Retrieved 2010-10-11 . CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link ) ^ Regina v. Hicklin#Decision Wikisource .^ Ducat, Craig R. (2008-02-29). Constitutional Interpretation: Rights of the individual ISBN 978-0-495-50324-8 . Retrieved 2011-09-30 . CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link ) ^ Browning, Robert (2004). Karlin, Daniel (ed.). Selected Poems . Penguin. p. 11. ^ Thornbury, Walter (1897). Chapter 4 Old and New London . 3 . pp. 32–35. Retrieved 2013-10-15 .CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link ) ^ "The World Almanac" . Retrieved 2013-02-12 .CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link ) ^ Jarndyce Catalogue CCXXIV, A Summer Miscellany (London, 2017), No. 201.
^ The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (November 1980). The Crisis ^ Frank Marshall Borras (1967). Maxim Gorky, the Writer: An Interpretation ^ E. J. Freeman (1995). Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac ISBN 978-0-85261-467-9 ^ Laura Paola Pellegrini (April 27, 2012). Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux: The novel’s evolution and its theatrical and cinematic adaptations in the twentieth century ISBN 978-88-7916-584-6 ^ James N. Hardin (1988). German Fiction Writers, 1885-1913 ISBN 978-0-8103-1744-4 ^ Paul Claudel (1964). The Correspondence, 1899-1926, Between Paul Claudel and André Gide ^ Sue Sims; Hilary Clare (2000). The Encyclopaedia of School Stories: The encyclopaedia of girls' school stories ^ Eleanor H Porter (September 2018). Pollyanna : Om Illustrated Classics ISBN 978-93-80070-87-2 ^ Merriam-Webster, Inc; MERRIAM-WEBSTER STAFF; Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6 ^ Andrew James Symington (1880). Samuel Lover: A Biographical Sketch with Selections from His Writings and Correspondence ^ Thomas Spencer Baynes (1891). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature ^ George Edward Cokayne (1 January 1900). Complete baronetage: Volume V ^ University of Oxford (1900). Oxford University Calendar