1883 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1883.

Events

• January 13 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende; 1882) at the Christiania Theatre.^[1]
• February – Carlo Collodi's children's story The Adventures of Pinocchio is first published complete in book form as Le avventure di Pinocchio in Italy.
• May 23 – Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island is first published in book form, by Cassell in London.
• June – First performance by Footlights, the Cambridge University dramatic club.
• June 30–October 20 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of Tunstall Forest is serialized in the British magazine Young Folks as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.
• August – The first Carnegie library is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland.
• December 27–28 – The Modern Language Association of America holds its first meeting.
• Mark Twain's memoirs Life on the Mississippi, published simultaneously in Boston (Massachusetts) and London, is the first substantial book submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript.^[2]
• Kisari Mohan Ganguli begins publication of the first English-language translation of the Mahabharata.
• The Deutsches Theater company is formed in Berlin.

New books

Fiction

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Phantom Fortune
• Rhoda Broughton – Belinda
• Hugh Conway – Called Back
• Wilkie Collins – Heart and Science
• Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam – Contes cruels
• John Hay – The Bread-Winners (anonymous serialization in The Century Magazine)
• Alexander Kielland – Gift ("Poison")
• Jonas Lie – Familien paa Gilje ("The Gilje family")
• John Macnie as "Ismar Thiusen" – The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead
• Mary E. Mann – The Parish of Hilby
• Guy de Maupassant – Une Vie
• George A. Moore – A Modern Lover
• Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra (publication begins)
• Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid – Gladys Fane
• Annie Shepherd Swan – Aldersyde
• Giovanni Verga – Novelle rusticane ("Rustic novellas", "Little novels of Sicily")
• Jules Verne – Kéraban the Inflexible

Children and young adults

• Carlo Collodi – The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
• George MacDonald – The Princess and Curdie
• Howard Pyle – The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island (book publication)

Drama

• Frances Hodgson Burnett and William Gillette – Esmeralda
• François Coppée – Severo Torelli
• George Robert Sims – In the Ranks
• August Strindberg – Lycko-Pers resa ("Lucky Peter's Travels" or "Lucky Pehr")
• Oscar Wilde – Vera; or, The Nihilists (first performed)
• William Young – The Rajah; or Wyncot's Ward

Poetry

Non-fiction

• Hall Caine – Cobwebs of Criticism
• Thomas Hill Green (died 1882) – Prolegomena to Ethics
• J. R. Seeley – The Expansion of England
• Alfred Percy Sinnett – Esoteric Buddhism
• John Addington Symonds – A Problem in Greek Ethics: an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists
• Mark Twain – Life on the Mississippi

Births

• January 1 – Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer (died 1949)
• January 6 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-born poet and novelist writing in Arabic and English (died 1931)
• January 10 – Aleksei Tolstoy, Russian writer (died 1945)
• January 20 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (died 1942)
• February 15 – Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died 1959)
• March 9 – Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (died 1957)
• March 17 – Urmuz, Romanian short prose writer (died 1923)
• April 30 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (died 1923)
• June 3 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist writing in German (died 1924)
• June 4 – Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, English crime writer (died 1955)
• December 13 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (died 1950)
• December 30 – Marie Gevers, Belgian novelist writing in French (died 1975)

Deaths

• January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray, English novelist (born 1790)
• March 14 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (born 1818)
• April 24 – Jules Sandeau, French novelist (born 1811)
• May 15 – Mary Elizabeth Mohl ("Clarkey"), English-born literary salonnière (born 1793)
• May 23 – Cyprian Norwid, Polish poet, dramatist and artist (born 1821)
• June 20 – Gustave Aimard, French novelist (born 1818)
• July 16 – Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (born 1814)
• August 31 – Levin Schücking, German novelist (born 1814)
• September 2 – Léon Halévy, French historian and dramatist (born 1802)
• September 3 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist (born 1818)
• December 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (born 1812)

References

1. Hanssen, Jens-Morten (2001-08-10). "Facts about An Enemy of the People". Ibsen.net. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
2. Rehr, Darryl. "The First Typewriter". Retrieved 2013-11-03.