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1857 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1857. Events *January – George Eliot's '' Scenes of Clerical Life'' begin publication as a serial in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine'' through the year, as her first work of fiction and the first use of her pseudonym. *January 5 – Wilkie Collins' drama '' The Frozen Deep'' is first presented in a private amateur performance featuring Charles Dickens, staged by him at his London home, Tavistock House. *January 10 – Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel. *February 7 – Gustave Flaubert's pioneering realist novel ''Madame Bovary'' is acquitted (but censured) on charges of offending morals and religion from its 1856 expurgated serialization. It is published complete in book form in April by Michel Lévy Frères in Paris. *February 15 – The play ''Demetrius'', left unfinished at Schiller's death in 1805, is premiered at the Hoftheater in Weimar. *May 2 – The British Museum Reading Room ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1856 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1856. Events *January 1 – M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan. *March – Charles Dickens buys Gads Hill Place in Kent (England) from fellow novelist Eliza Lynn. *March 1 – Lewis Carroll chooses his pseudonym; on May 1 he takes up photography as a hobby. *March 5 – The second Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, is destroyed by fire, as the first was in 1808. *May – John Ruskin praises Henry Wallis's painting of '' The Death of Chatterton'' when it is exhibited in London; the young poet and novelist George Meredith modelled for the painting. *July 19– 26 – Wilkie Collins' "Anne Rodway", a story in diary form about a needlewoman and her fiancé investigating the murder of a friend, appears in ''Household Words'', as the first English story t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell (; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1838, despite his reputation as a troublemaker, and went on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School. He published his first collection of poetry in 1841 and married Maria White in 1844. The couple had several children, though only one survived past childhood. He became involved in the movement to abolish slavery. Lowell used poetry to express his anti-slavery views and took a job in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the editor of an abolitionist newspaper. After moving back to Cambridge, Lowell was one of the founders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with '' The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table'' (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer, and inventor. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes was educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard College. After graduating from Harvard in 1829, he briefly studied law before turning to the medical profession. He began writing poetry at an early age; one of his most famous works, " Old Ironsides", was published in 1830 and was influential in the eventual preservation of the USS ''Constitution''. Following training at the prestigious medical schools of Paris, Holmes was grante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and '' Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'' and was one of the fireside poets from New England. Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were ''Voices of the Night'' (1839) and ''Ballads and Other Poems'' (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife, Frances Appleton, died in 1861 after sustaining burns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionism, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalism, Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master". Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, "Nature (Emerson), Nature". His speech "The American Scholar," given in 1837, was called America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Richardson, p. 263. Emerson wrote most of Essays (Emerson), his important essays as lectures and then revised them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 5
Events Pre-1600 * 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. * 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. * 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. * 1494 – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown. 1601–1900 * 1609 – ''Daimyō'' (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. * 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. * 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. * 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. * 1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum Reading Room
The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. In 1997, this function moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form at the British Museum. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857, the Reading Room was in continual use until its temporary closure for renovation in 1997. It was reopened in 2000, and from 2007 to 2017 it was used to stage temporary exhibitions. The reading room was closed to the public again in 2013 and converted for use as the museum's archive. It was reopened for guided tours in 2023, and reopened for general visitors in July 2024. History Construction and design In the early 1850s the museum library was in need of a larger reading room and the then-Keeper of Printed Books, Antonio Panizzi, following an earlier competition idea by William Hosking, came up with the thought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 2
Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter. * 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. * 1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation. *1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle. 1601–1900 * 1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. * 1625 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa. * 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America. * 1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoftheater In Weimar
The (DNT), or German National Theater and Weimar State Orchestra, is the most significant arts organization in Weimar. The institution unites the (German National Theater) with the (Weimar State Orchestra). It plays on a total of six stages across the city. All sections of the theater and orchestra periodically give additional guest performances and appear in electronic media. Venues # Main House ('), traditional main stage on Theaterplatz (music and theatre) # Foyer and Studio Stage ('), within the main house on Theaterplatz (music and theatre; cabaret) # ''E-Werk Weimar'', a former industrial site with two venues, ' and ' (music and theatre) # ' (concerts by the Staatskapelle Weimar) The Staatskapelle Weimar History The precursor ensemble of Staatskapelle Weimar dates from 1482, with the formation of a musical ensemble in service of the Weimar ''Fürsten'' (Princes). In 1602, the ensemble attained resident status at the Weimar court, as the ''Herzoglichen Hofkapelle'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1805 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1805. Events *January 18–September 6 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta. *Early – Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Carl von Savigny. *October 12 – The new Theatre Royal, Bath, opens in England, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre. *Unknown date – Henry Thomas Colebrooke makes the first translation into English of the Sanskrit ''Aitareya Upanishad''. New books Fiction * Eugenia de Acton – ''The Nuns of the Desert'' * Sophie Ristaud Cottin – ''Mathilde'' (translated as ''The Saracen; or Matilda and Malek Adhel: A Crusade Romance'') *Charlotte Dacre – ''Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer'' *Robert Charles Dallas – ''The Morlands'' *Maria Edgeworth – ''The Modern Griselda'' *Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville – '' Le Dernier Homme'' * Elizabeth Helme: **''The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray'' **''The Pilgrim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born in Marbach to a devoutly Protestant family. Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine. His first play, '' The Robbers'', was written at this time and proved very successful. After a brief stint as a regimental doctor, he left Stuttgart and eventually wound up in Weimar. In 1789, he became professor of History and Philosophy at Jena, where he wrote historical works. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
