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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1883.

Events

The Adventures of Pinocchio, illustration from the first Italian edition

January 13 – Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende, 1882) gains its first performance at the Christiania Theatre.^[1]
February – Carlo Collodi's children's story The Adventures of Pinocchio appears first in Italy complete in book form as Le avventure di Pinocchio.
May 23 – Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island first appears in book form from Cassell in London.
June – Footlights, the University of Cambridge drama club in England, gives its first performance.
June 4 – Mihai Eminescu reads his nationalist poem Doina to an enthusiastic crowd at Junimea in Iași.^[2] It is sometimes described as his last work before a mental breakdown later this year. Eminescu's host Ion Creangă recalls it being composed on the spot,^[3] but some researchers date it back to 1870.^[4]
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.
July – The first issue of Fiamuri Arbërit, an Albanian literary and political magazine, is published from Cosenza. Managed by Girolamo de Rada, it promotes Ottomanism against Philhellenism.^[5]
August – Ivan Turgenev dictates his last story, "An end", to Pauline Viardot (who writes it in French) on his deathbed at Bougival in France.^[6]
August 29 – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library, opens in Andrew Carnegie's home town, Dunfermline, Scotland.
October 3–9 – Turgenev's body is returned by train from Paris to Saint Petersburg with crowds turning out to honor him.^[6]
December 27–28 – The Modern Language Association of America holds its first meeting.
Uncertain dates
- Mark Twain's memoirs Life on the Mississippi are published simultaneously in Boston (Massachusetts) and London, as the first major book submitted to a publisher in typescript.^[7]
- Kisari Mohan Ganguli begins publication of the first English-language translation of the Mahabharata.
- The Deutsches Theater company is formed in Berlin.^[8]

New books

Fiction

Margaret Oliphant – "Hester (novel)"
Emilia Pardo Bazán – La tribuna
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Phantom Fortune
Rhoda Broughton – Belinda
Hugh Conway – Called Back
Wilkie Collins – Heart and Science
Anne Elliot – Dr. Edith Romney
Ludwig Ganghofer – The Hunter of Fall
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam – Contes cruels
John Hay – The Bread-Winners (anonymous serialization in The Century Magazine)
Alexander Kielland – Poison (Gift)
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 (Also sprach Zarathustra, publication begins)
Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid – Gladys Fane
Charlotte Riddell – A Struggle for Fame
Annie S. Swan – Aldersyde
Giovanni Verga – Novelle rusticane (Rustic short stories, about Sicily)
Jules Verne – Kéraban the Inflexible (Kéraban-le-têtu)

Children and young people

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
Imre Madách – The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, first performed)
Edward Rose – Vice Versa
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

American Medical Association – Journal of the American Medical Association
Mathilde Blind – George Eliot
Hall Caine – Cobwebs of Criticism
Thomas Hill Green (died 1882) – Prolegomena to Ethics
J.-K. Huysmans – L'Art moderne
Agnes Catherine Maitland (as A. C. M., Examiner...) – The Rudiments of Cookery: a Manual for Use in Schools and Homes
William Robinson – The English Flower Garden
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)^[9]
January 20 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (died 1942)
January 21 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher (died 1929)
February 8 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian/American political economist (died 1950)
February 15 – Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Ward), English novelist (died 1959)
February 16 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer (died [1980)
February 20 – Naoya Shiga, Japanese novelist (died 1971)
March 2 (February 18 O.S.) – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek novelist (died 1957)
March 9 – Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (died 1957)
March 17 – Urmuz, Romanian short prose writer (died 1923)
March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under, Estonian poet (died 1980)
April 18 – Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (died 1956)
April 27 – Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (died 1927)^[10]
April 30 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (died 1923)^[11]
June 3 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist writing in German (died 1924)
June 4 – Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, English crime writer (died 1955)
July 29 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (died 1942)
September 14 – Rose Combe, French writer and railway worker (died 1932)^[12]
September 22 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (died 1932)
October 18 – Helena Boguszewska, Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (died 1978)
December 13 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (died 1950)^[13]
December 23 – Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher and politician (died 1966)
December 30 – Marie Gevers, Belgian novelist writing in French (died 1975)
unknown date – May Edginton, English popular novelist (died 1957)^[14]

Deaths

January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray, English novelist and travel writer (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)
June 11 – Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English poet, novelist, short story writer (born 1813)
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)
September 10 – Hendrik Conscience, Flemish novelist (born 1812)
September 25 – George Ayliffe Poole, English writer and cleric (born 1809)^[15]
November 26 – Sojourner Truth, African American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author (born 1797)^[16]
December 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (born 1812)^[17]
unknown date – Mary S. B. Shindler, American poet (born 1810)

References

^ Hanssen, Jens-Morten (2001-08-10). "Facts about An Enemy of the People". Ibsen.net. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ Irimia, Dumitru (1984). "1883 – anul Eminescu". Anuar de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară. XXIX: 1.
^ Gorovei, Arthur (1930). Alte vremuri. Amintiri literare. Fălticeni: J. Bendit. pp. 62–63.
^ Ornea, Z. (2000). "Un doctrinar legionar de azi". România Literară (in Romanian) (37). Archived from the original on 2016-08-26.
^ Clayer, Nathalie (2007). Aux origines du nationalisme albanais. La naissance d'une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe. Paris: Karthala. pp. 293–294. ISBN 978-2-84586-816-8.
^ ^a ^b Figes, Orlando (2019). The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture. [London]: Allen Lane. pp. 462–7. ISBN 978-0-241-00489-0.
^ Rehr, Darryl. "The First Typewriter". Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
^ Martin Banham; James R. Brandon (21 September 1995). The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 585. ISBN 978-0-521-43437-9.
^ Stanley Hochman (1984). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. McGraw-Hill. p. 31.
^ Moore, Richard B., "Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)", in Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (eds), Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1982), 292–93.
^ Patrick, Julian (2009). 501 great writers : A comprehensive guide to the giants of literature. Apple. p. 287. ISBN 9781845433109.
^ Vialatte, Alexandre; Pourrat, Henri; Hadjadj, Dany; Coyault, Sylviane (2001). Correspondance Alexandre Vialatte - Henri Pourrat: 1916-1959 5, De Paris à Héliopolis: mars 1935 - juillet 1939 (in French). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal. p. 58. ISBN 978-2-84516-381-2.
^ "Belle da Costa Greene | American librarian and bibliographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
^ Lorna Sage; Germaine Greer; Elaine Showalter (30 September 1999). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-521-66813-2.
^ John McClintock (1889). Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper & brothers. p. 780.
^ Frances E. Ruffin (15 December 2001). Sojourner Truth: Early Abolitionist. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8239-5826-9.
^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z). Cosimo, Inc. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-60520-251-8.

[1] Hanssen, Jens-Morten (2001-08-10). "Facts about An Enemy of the People". Ibsen.net. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[2] Irimia, Dumitru (1984). "1883 – anul Eminescu". Anuar de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară. XXIX: 1.

[3] Gorovei, Arthur (1930). Alte vremuri. Amintiri literare. Fălticeni: J. Bendit. pp. 62–63.

[4] Ornea, Z. (2000). "Un doctrinar legionar de azi". România Literară (in Romanian) (37). Archived from the original on 2016-08-26.

[5] Clayer, Nathalie (2007). Aux origines du nationalisme albanais. La naissance d'une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe. Paris: Karthala. pp. 293–294. ISBN 978-2-84586-816-8.

[Figes-6] Figes, Orlando (2019). The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture. [London]: Allen Lane. pp. 462–7. ISBN 978-0-241-00489-0.

[7] Rehr, Darryl. "The First Typewriter". Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2013-11-03.

[8] Martin Banham; James R. Brandon (21 September 1995). The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 585. ISBN 978-0-521-43437-9.

[9] Stanley Hochman (1984). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. McGraw-Hill. p. 31.

[10] Moore, Richard B., "Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)", in Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (eds), Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1982), 292–93.

[11] Patrick, Julian (2009). 501 great writers : A comprehensive guide to the giants of literature. Apple. p. 287. ISBN 9781845433109.

[12] Vialatte, Alexandre; Pourrat, Henri; Hadjadj, Dany; Coyault, Sylviane (2001). Correspondance Alexandre Vialatte - Henri Pourrat: 1916-1959 5, De Paris à Héliopolis: mars 1935 - juillet 1939 (in French). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal. p. 58. ISBN 978-2-84516-381-2.

[13] "Belle da Costa Greene | American librarian and bibliographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

[14] Lorna Sage; Germaine Greer; Elaine Showalter (30 September 1999). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-521-66813-2.

[15] John McClintock (1889). Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper & brothers. p. 780.

[16] Frances E. Ruffin (15 December 2001). Sojourner Truth: Early Abolitionist. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8239-5826-9.

[17] Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z). Cosimo, Inc. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-60520-251-8.

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