Editing 1910 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1910'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 8]] – Serialisation of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s novel ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]] (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)'' concludes in the Paris newspaper ''[[Le Gaulois]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Gaston Leroux|title=The Phantom of the Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qnf9Mm0wsKYC&pg=PR21|date=8 March 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-162381-3|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[January 30]] – [[Uncle Wiggily]] Longears, a rheumatic rabbit created by [[Howard R. Garis]], makes his debut in the ''[[Newark News]]'' (U.S.)
*March – [[Lesotho]] author [[Thomas Mofolo]] completes his novel ''[[Chaka (novel)|Chaka]]''; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published until 1925.<ref name="Mofolo2013">{{Cite book|author=Thomas Mofolo|title=Chaka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QXcbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=21 May 2013|publisher=Waveland Press|isbn=978-1-4786-0972-8|pages=11}}</ref>
*[[March 18]] – The first movie version of [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein (1910 film)|Frankenstein]]'' ([[1818 in literature|1818]]) is released in the U.S. by [[Edison Studios]]. One of the first [[horror film]]s, it features unbilled the actor [[Charles Stanton Ogle|Charles Ogle]] as [[Frankenstein's monster|the monster]].
*[[March 30]] – William Johnston and Paul West's novel ''The Innocent Murderers'' is published in New York City, as the first work of academic crime fiction.
*[[April 20]] – [[Halley's comet]] reappears after 76 years, and [[Mark Twain]] dies at his home, [[Stormfield]], the day after the [[comet]]'s [[perihelion]]. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
*[[August 11]] – The [[Buenos Aires Convention]] is signed, providing for international recognition of [[copyright]].
*September – [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s fictional detective [[Father Brown]] makes a first U.K. appearance in the short story "[[The Blue Cross (short story)|The Blue Cross]]" in the ''[[Story-Teller]]'' magazine (London), having previously appeared on June 23 as "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' ([[Philadelphia]]).
*[[September 1]] – [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]]'s elaborate revival of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII]]'' opens in London. It will run for 254 consecutive performances.
*October – [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]]'s first novel ''Mafarka il futurista'' is cleared of obscenity charges.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Blum, Cinzia Sartini |title=The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power |publisher=University of California Press |year=1996 |isbn=9780520916272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYIv4O2N98sC}}, p. 181.</ref>
*Fall – [[Damon Runyon]] begins working as a journalist on ''[[The New York American]]''.
*[[November 20]] – Russian novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]] dies of [[pneumonia]] aged 82<ref>{{cite book|title=Leo Tolstoy|first=E. J.|last=Simmons|year=1946|publisher=Little, Brown}}</ref> at [[Lev Tolstoy (rural locality)|Astapovo]] railway station, after a day's train journey south, fleeing from his home.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/james-meek/some-wild-creature|title=James Meek reviews 'The Death of Tolstoy' by William Nickell, 'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy' translated by Cathy Porter, 'A Confession' by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs and 'Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy' by Donna Tussing Orwin|pages=3–8|newspaper=London Review of Books|date=2010-07-22|last=Meek|first=James}}</ref>
*Ongoing – [[Boris Pasternak]] drops out of the [[Moscow Conservatory]] and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the [[University of Marburg]]. He also falls in love with [[Olga Freidenberg]].

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[C. R. Ashbee]] – ''The Building of Thelema''
*[[Florence L. Barclay]] – ''[[The Mistress of Shenstone (novel)|The Mistress of Shenstone]]''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''[[The Clayhanger Family#Clayhanger (1910)|Clayhanger]]'' (first volume in the eponymous trilogy – actually four books)
*[[Oskar Braaten]] – ''Kring fabrikken''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''[[The Devil and the Deep Sea]]''
*[[John Buchan]] – ''[[Prester John (novel)|Prester John]]''
*[[Ivan Bunin]] – ''[[The Village (Bunin novel)|The Village]]'' («Деревня», ''Derévnya'', originally published as ''Novelet'' («Повесть»))
*[[Gilbert Cannan]] – ''Devious Ways''
*[[Dikran Chökürian]] – ''Hayreni dzayner'' (Հայրենի Ձայներ)
*[[Colette]] – ''[[The Vagabond (novel)|La Vagabonde]]''
*William T. Cox – ''[[Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods]]''
*[[Walter de la Mare]] – ''The Return''
*[[Grazia Deledda]] – ''Sino al confine'' (Until the border)
*[[Jeffery Farnol]] – ''[[The Broad Highway]]''<ref>{{Cite book|first=Q. D.|last=Leavis|authorlink=Q. D. Leavis|title=Fiction and the Reading Public|edition=rev.|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1965}}</ref>
*[[Douglas Morey Ford]] – ''The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940''
*[[E. M. Forster]] – ''[[Howards End]]''
*[[Zane Grey]] – ''The Heritage of the Desert''
*[[Gerhart Hauptmann]] – ''[[:de:Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint|Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint]]'' (The Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint)
*[[Hermann Hesse]] – ''[[Gertrud (novel)|Gertrud]]''
*[[Gaston Leroux]] – ''Un Homme dans la nuit''
*[[Hermann Löns]] – ''[[Der Wehrwolf]]''
*[[Lu Shi'e]] – ''[[Xin Zhongguo]]'' (新中國, New China)
*Iain MacCormaic – ''[[Dùn Aluinn]]'' (serialization)
*[[Karin Michaëlis]] – ''Den farlige Alder'' (The Dangerous Age)
*[[Thomas Mofolo]] – ''Pitseng''<ref name="Mofolo2013"/>
*[[Natsume Sōseki]] (夏目 漱石) – ''[[The Gate (novel)|The Gate]]'' (''Mon'' 門)
*[[Martin Andersen Nexø]] – ''[[Pelle the Conqueror]]'' (final volume)
* [[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''[[The Golden Web (novel)|The Golden Web]]''
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''[[Lady Molly of Scotland Yard]]''
**''[[Petticoat Government]]''
*[[William Arthur Dunkerley|John Oxenham]] – ''[[A Maid of the Silver Sea (novel)|A Maid of the Silver Sea]]''
*[[Louis Pergaud]] – ''De Goupil à Margot'' (short stories)
*[[Aleksey Remizov]] – ''The Indefatigable Cymbal''
*[[Rainer Maria Rilke]] – ''[[The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]] (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge)''
*[[Mary Roberts Rinehart]] – ''The Window at the White Cat''
*[[J.-H. Rosny aîné]] – ''[[La Mort de la Terre]]''
*[[Fráňa Šrámek]] – ''[[Stříbrný vítr]]''
*[[Katherine Thurston]] – ''Max''
*[[Edgar Wallace]] – ''[[The Nine Bears]]''
*[[Mary Augusta Ward]] – ''Canadian Born''
*[[H. G. Wells]]
**''[[The History of Mr Polly]]''
**''[[The New Machiavelli]]'' (serialization)
*[[Elin Wägner]] – ''[[Pennskaftet]]''
*[[Jerzy Żuławski]] – ''Zwycięzca'' (The Conqueror), second of the ''[[Trylogia Księżycowa]]'' (Lunar Trilogy)

===Children and young people===
*[[Victor Appleton]] – ''[[Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle]]''
*[[L. Frank Baum]]
**''[[The Emerald City of Oz]]''
**''[[Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society]]'' (as Edith Van Dyne)
*[[Thornton Burgess]] – ''Old Mother West Wind''
*[[Frances Hodgson Burnett]] – ''[[The Secret Garden]]''
*[[Grace James]] – ''Japanese Fairy Tales''
*[[Rudyard Kipling]] – ''[[Rewards and Fairies]]''
*[[Walter de la Mare]] – ''The Three Mulla Mulgars'' (also ''The Three Royal Monkeys'')
*[[John Masefield]] – ''A Book of Discoveries''
*[[Lucy Maud Montgomery]] – ''[[Kilmeny of the Orchard]]''
*[[E. Nesbit]] – ''[[The Magic City (novel)|The Magic City]]''
*[[Peter Newell]] – ''The Slant Book''
*[[Beatrix Potter]] – ''[[The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse]]''

===Drama===
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*[[Hall Caine]]
**''The Bishop's Son'' (new version of ''Ben-my-Chree'')
**''The Eternal Question'' (new version of ''The Eternal City'')
*[[George Diamandy]]
**''Bestia'' (The Beast)
**''Tot înainte'' (Carry On)
*[[Maxim Gorky]] – ''[[Reception (play)|Reception]]'' («Встреча», ''Vstrecha''; also published as ''Children'' («Дети», ''Deti''))
*[[Terence MacSwiney]] – ''The Last Warriors of Coole''
*[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] – ''[[Mary Magdalene (Maeterlinck play)|Mary Magdalene]]''
*[[Eduardo Marquina]] – ''[[:es:En Flandes se ha puesto el sol|En Flandes se ha puesto el sol]]'' (The Sun Has Set in Flanders)
*[[John Masefield]] – ''[[The Tragedy of Pompey the Great]]''
*[[Louis N. Parker]] – ''[[Pomander Walk (play)|Pomander Walk]]''
*[[Edmond Rostand]] – ''[[Chantecler (play)|Chantecler]]''
*[[George Bernard Shaw]] – ''[[Misalliance (play)|Misalliance]]''
*[[J. M. Synge]] – ''[[Deirdre of the Sorrows]]''
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]] – ''[[Raja (play)|Raja]]'' (রাজা, ''The King of the Dark Chamber'')</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
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*[[Paul Claudel]] – ''Cinq Grandes Odes''
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]] – ''[[Gitanjali]]'' ([[Bengali language]] version)

===Non-fiction===
*[[Jane Addams]] – ''Twenty Years at Hull House''
*[[Norman Angell]] – ''[[The Great Illusion]]'' (revision of ''Europe's Optical Illusion'' published 1909)
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''King Edward: A Prince and a Great Man''
*[[G. K. Chesterton]] – ''What's Wrong with the World''
*[[Emily Davies]] – ''Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women''
*[[Sigmund Freud]]
**''Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Über Psychoanalyse: fünf Vorlesungen gehalten zur 20jährigen Gründungsfeier der Clark University in Worcester Mass., September 1909)''
**''[[Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood]] (Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci)'' (essay)
*[[Emma Goldman]] – ''[[Anarchism and Other Essays]]''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[The Spell of Egypt]]''
*[[Dumitru C. Moruzi]] – ''Înstrăinații''
*[[Ezra Pound]] – ''[[The Spirit of Romance]]''
*[[Gerhard Ritter]] – ''Ein historisches Urbild zu Goethes Faust (Agrippa von Nettesheym)''
*[[Henri Stahl]] – ''Bucureștii ce se duc''
*[[Percy Sykes]] – ''The Glory of the Shia World''<ref name="WDL">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/ |title=A History of Persia |website=[[World Digital Library]] |year=1921 |accessdate=2013-10-01}}</ref>
*[[Wallace D. Wattles]] – ''[[The Science of Getting Rich]]''
*[[Andrew Dickson White]] – ''Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason''
*[[Alfred North Whitehead]] and [[Bertrand Russell]] – ''[[Principia Mathematica]], vol. 1''

==Births==
*[[February 6]] – [[Irmgard Keun]], German novelist (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[February 10]] – [[Joan G. Robinson]], English children's writer and illustrator (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[February 11]] – [[L. T. C. Rolt]], English biographer and writer of ghost stories (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Leonte Răutu]], Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Basil Boothroyd]], English poet and humorist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[March 22]] – [[Nicholas Monsarrat]], English novelist (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Andrew E. Svenson]], American author and publisher (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])
*[[May 23]] – [[Margaret Wise Brown]], American children's writer (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
*[[June 15]] – [[Marie de Garis]] (Marie Le Messurier), [[Guernsey]] ethnographer and lexicographer (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])
*[[June 21]] – [[Clive Sansom]], English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[June 23]] – [[Jean Anouilh]], French dramatist (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[July 14]] – [[Vincent Brome]], English biographer and novelist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[July 27]] – [[Julien Gracq]], French novelist, critic and playwright (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Jacquetta Hawkes]] (née Hopkins), English writer and archeologist (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[August 10]] – [[Vladimir Cavarnali]], Bessarabian-born Romanian poet, editor, and journalist (died [[1966 in literature|1966]])
*[[August 19]] – [[Quentin Bell]], English historian and author (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[September 8]] – [[Julián Padrón]], Venezuelan novelist, journalist and lawyer (died [[1954 in literature|1954]])
*[[September 11]] – [[Manuel Mujica Láinez]], Argentine novelist (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])
*[[September 18]] – [[Bernard Kangro]], Estonian journalist, author, and poet (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[September 30]] – [[Edward Hyams]], English novelist and historian (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])
*[[October 15]] – [[Haddis Alemayehu]], Ethiopian politician and novelist (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[November 9]] – [[P. M. Hubbard]], English crime writer (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])
*[[November 17]] – [[Rachel de Queiroz]], Brazilian author (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[December 19]]
**[[Jean Genet]], French novelist, playwright and poet (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Norrish|title=New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-1970|publisher=Barnes & Noble Books|year=1988|ISBN=9780389207467|page=107}}</ref>
**[[José Lezama Lima]], Cuban writer and poet (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
*[[December 24]]
**[[Jean-Paul Crespelle]], French writer (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
**[[Fritz Leiber]], American writer of [[fantasy]] and [[science fiction]] (died [[1992 in literature|1992]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Betty Miller (author)|Betty Miller]], Irish-born Jewish writer (died [[1965 in literature|1965]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 29]] – [[Edouard Rod]], French-Swiss novelist (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])
*[[March 29]] – [[H. Maria George Colby]], American writer (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*April – [[Frances Margaret Milne]], Irish-born American author and librarian (born [[1846 in literature|1846]])
*[[April 3]] – [[Catherine Helen Spence]], Australian writer (born [[1925 in literature|1825]])
*[[April 4]] – [[Augusta Harvey Worthen]], Australian author and educator (born [[1923 in literature|1823]])
*[[April 9]] – [[Vittoria Aganoor]], Italian poet (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Angie F. Newman]], American poet, author, and edito (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[April 21]] – [[Mark Twain]], American writer (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Emil Friedrich Kautzsch]], German Bible scholar (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[May 10]] – [[Anna Laetitia Waring]], Welsh poet and hymnist (born [[1823 in literature|1823]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Jules Renard]], French novelist (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[July 2]] – [[Frederick James Furnivall]], English lexicographer (born [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[August 4]] – [[Heinrich Julius Holtzmann]], German New Testament commentator (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
*[[August 26]] – [[William James]], American philosopher (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*[[September 6]] – [[Susan F. Ferree]], American journalist and social reformer (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[September 14]] – [[Emma B. Dunham]], American poet, author, teacher (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])
*[[October 17]]
**[[William Vaughn Moody]], American dramatist and poet (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])
**[[Julia Ward Howe]], American poet and abolitionist (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[October 27]] – [[Henrietta Gould Rowe]], American litterateur and author (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[November 6]] – [[George Panu]], Romanian memoirist, literary critic, journalist and politician (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[November 15]] – [[Wilhelm Raabe]], German novelist (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
*[[November 20]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]], Russian novelist (born [[1828 in literature|1828]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse]]
*[[Newdigate prize]]: [[Charles Bewley]]<ref>{{Cite book|author=Charles Bewley|title=Atlantis; The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDEIkAEACAAJ|date=3 September 2015|publisher=Bibliolife DBA of Bibilio Bazaar II LLC|isbn=978-1-341-46121-7}}</ref>

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