1911 in literature

1911 in literature

The year 1911 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his three-volume "Hail and Farewell" (last in 1914).
*Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard.
*Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.

New books

*Max Beerbohm — "Zuleika Dobson"
*Arnold Bennett — "The Card"
*J. D. Beresford — "The Hampdenshire Wonder"
*Frances Hodgson Burnett — "The Secret Garden"
*G. K. Chesterton — "The Innocence of Father Brown"
*Hugh Clifford — "The Downfall of the Gods"
*Marie Corelli — "Life Everlasting"
*Ford Madox Ford — "Ladies Whose Bright Eyes"
*E. M. Forster — "The Celestial Omnibus"
*Eduard von Keyserling — "Wellen"
*Valery Larbaud — "Fermina Márquez"
*D. H. Lawrence — "The White Peacock"
*Gaston Leroux — "The Phantom of the Opera"
*Baroness Orczy — "A True Woman"
*Forrest Reid — "The Bracknels"
*Bram Stoker — "The Lair of the White Worm"
*Mary Augusta Ward — "The Case of Richard Meynell"
*H. G. Wells — "The New Machiavelli"
*Edith Wharton — "Ethan Frome"
*Owen Wister — "Padre Ignacio"

New drama

*George Bernard Shaw - "Fanny's First Play"
*Baroness Orczy — "The Duke's Wager"
*Stanislavski and Craig's seminal symbolist production of "Hamlet" opened at the Moscow Arts Theatre

Poetry

*Edwin James Brady - "River Rovers"
*John Masefield - "The Everlasting Mercy"

Non-fiction

*"Encyclopædia Britannica"

Births

* January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author
* February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
* March 11 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish diplomat, adventurer, writer and politician
* March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
* April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
* May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author
* June 6 - Verna Aardema, children's author
* July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author (+ 1980)
* November 19 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman - American author and poet (+ 1995)
* December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
* December 25 - Noel Langley, screenwriter

Deaths

* January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist / novelist
* February 7 - Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author
* May 9 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, literary mentor of Emily Dickinson
* May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, humorist
* October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author
* October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer
* November 9 - Howard Pyle, children's author

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist


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