Editing 1916 in literature (section)

==Events==
*January
** ''[[Journal of African American History|The Journal of Negro History]]'' is founded by [[Carter G. Woodson]], father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week" in the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/6/4/13642/13642.txt |journal=Project Gutenberg |title=''The Journal of Negro History'' |editor=Woodson, Carter G. |volume=I |accessdate=2013-05-21 |date=January 1916}}</ref>
**[[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]]'s short story ''[[The Nose (Akutagawa short story)|The Nose]]'' is published in a student magazine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/akutagawa_ryunosuke.html |title=Akutagawa Ryunosuke |accessdate=2008-09-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022011134/http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/akutagawa_ryunosuke.html |archivedate=2008-10-22 }}</ref>
*[[March 1]] – The [[National Library of Wales]] completes its transfer to purpose-built premises in [[Aberystwyth]].<ref>{{Cite book |authorlink=David Jenkins (librarian) |first=David |last=Jenkins |title=A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952 |location=Aberystwyth |publisher=National Library of Wales |year=2002 |isbn=1-86225-034-0 |page=168}}</ref>
*[[March 22]] – [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and [[Edith Bratt]] marry at [[St Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick]], England. They will serve as inspiration for the fictional characters [[Beren]] and [[Lúthien]]. Tolkien leaves for military service in France at the beginning of June.
*[[March 30]] – [[Don Marquis]] introduces the characters [[Archy and Mehitabel]] in "The Sun Dial" column in [[The Sun (New York City)|''The Evening Sun'' (New York City)]]. Archy is a poetry-writing [[cockroach]] unable to operate the typewriter [[shift key]]; Mehitabel is a cat.
*April–June – [[Katherine Mansfield]] and [[John Middleton Murry]] live as neighbours to [[D. H. Lawrence|D. H.]] and [[Frieda Lawrence]] at Higher Tregerthen, near [[Zennor]] in Cornwall (England).<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Whi071Kota-t1-g1-t8.html |title=Katherine Mansfield, 1888–1923 |first=Joanna |last=Woods |publisher=[[Victoria University of Wellington]] |journal=New Zealand Notes and Queries |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=63–98 |year=2007 |doi=10.26686/knznq.v7i1.776 |accessdate=2015-12-13|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[April 24]]–[[April 30|30]] – In the [[Easter Rising]] in [[Ireland]], members of the [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] [[Proclamation of the Irish Republic|proclaim an Irish Republic]] and the [[Irish Volunteers]] and [[Irish Citizen Army]] occupy the [[General Post Office (Dublin)|General Post Office]] and other buildings in [[Dublin]], before surrendering to the [[British Army]]. Of the seven subsequently executed leaders of the Rising, [[Thomas MacDonagh]], [[Patrick Pearse]] and [[Joseph Plunkett]] are poets and [[James Connolly]] a balladeer and playwright. The events are the theme of [[W. B. Yeats]]' poem "[[Easter, 1916]]", first published this September.
*[[May 16]] – [[Natsume Sōseki]]'s novel ''[[Light and Darkness (novel)|Light and Darkness]]'' (明暗, ''Mei An'') begins to be serialized in the [[Tokyo]] and [[Osaka]] editions of the newspaper ''[[Asahi Shimbun]]'', but will remain unfinished at the author's death on [[December 9]], aged 49.
*[[July 1]]
**The poets [[W. N. Hodgson]], [[Will Streets]], [[Gilbert Waterhouse]], Henry Field, Alfred Ratcliffe, Alexander Robertson and Bernard White are among 19,000 British soldiers killed on the [[First day on the Somme]] alone.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poets Killed on the First Day of the Somme |url=http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/killedsomme.html |work=Poetry of the First World War|accessdate=2013-05-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522142845/http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/killedsomme.html |archivedate=2011-05-22}}</ref> The same day is chosen for the death of fictitious poet Cecil Valance in [[Alan Hollinghurst]]'s [[2011 in literature|2011]] novel ''[[The Stranger's Child]]''. The [[Battle of the Somme]] continues until [[October 18]], during which time American poet [[Alan Seeger]] (serving with the French), Irish writer [[Tom Kettle]], English poet [[Edward Tennant (poet)|Edward Tennant]], English short story writer [[Saki]] and English bowler [[Percy Jeeves]] (whose name P. G. Wodehouse borrowed for his character) are all killed. The English writer [[Robert Graves]], novelist [[Stuart Cloete]], playwright/actor [[Arnold Ridley]] and artist/poet [[David Jones (artist-poet)|David Jones]] are seriously injured – Graves is for a time believed killed. [[Ford Madox Hueffer]] suffers concussion and shell shock. [[A. A. Milne]] and J. R. R. Tolkien are invalided out. The English poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]] wins the [[Military Cross]]. The [[Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders|Cameron Highlander]] [[Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna]] composes the [[Scottish Gaelic]] [[love song]] ''[[An Eala Bhàn]]'' (The White Swan) in the [[oral literature]] tradition. The future U.K. Prime Minister [[Harold Macmillan]] is wounded in September's [[Battle of Flers–Courcelette]]; sheltering in a [[slit trench]], he reads [[Aeschylus]] in the original Greek.
**[[W. B. Yeats]] makes his fifth and final proposal of marriage to the newly widowed [[Maud Gonne]] in France.
*c. July–December – Poets [[Terence MacSwiney]] and [[Darrell Figgis]] are among [[Irish republican]]s detained in [[Reading Gaol]] (England) following the [[Easter Rising]].<ref>{{cite news|authorlink=Maev Kennedy|first=Maev|last=Kennedy|title=Jailer complained about noisy Easter Rising prisoners, letter reveals|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/21/easter-rising-jailer-singing-letter-reading-gaol|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=2016-04-21|accessdate=2024-03-10}}</ref>
*Summer – In the United States, 15-year-old [[Margaret Mitchell]] writes a [[novella]] called ''[[Lost Laysen]]'' in two notebooks. She will later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book remains lost until the mid-1990s. It is published in [[1996 in literature|1996]]. Meanwhile, Mitchell will go on to write ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]''.
*September – [[Joseph Conrad]]'s novella ''[[The Shadow Line (novel)|The Shadow Line]]'' begins to be serialized in ''[[The English Review]]'' (London) and the [[Metropolitan Magazine (New York)|''Metropolitan Magazine'' (New York)]].
*[[October 6]] – The poet [[Perpessicius]] loses his right arm fighting for the Romanians in a skirmish at [[Topraisar|Muratan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ene |first=Ileana |editor-last=Perpessicius |editor-link=Perpessicius |title=Studii eminesciene |publisher=Museum of Romanian Literature |location=Bucharest |year=2001 |page=14 |chapter=Tabel cronologic |isbn=973-8031-34-6}}</ref>
*[[October 19]] – New premises for the [[German National Library]] open in [[Leipzig]].
*December – The first of many editions of [[Robert Baden-Powell]]'s ''[[The Wolf Cub's Handbook]]'' is published.<ref>{{cite book|author=Shirley A. Scott|title=Canada Knits: Craft and Comfort in a Northern Land|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sZKAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=McGraw-Hill Ryerson|isbn=978-0-07-549973-2|page=97}}</ref>
*[[December 29]] – [[James Joyce]]'s semi-autobiographical novel ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' is first published complete in book form, in [[New York City|New York]] by [[B. W. Huebsch]].