Calendar of Literary Facts

1910

  • Marie Curie publishes her Treatise on Radiography
  • E. M. Forster publishes Howards End
  • Charles W. Eliot, former president of Harvard University, edits and publishes the Harvard Classics, a fifty-volume collection of world literature
  • G. K. Chesterton introduces his fictional detective Father Brown, in the story “The Blue Cross,” published in The Storyteller magazine
  • W. E. B. Du Bois founds Crisis Magazine, which focused upon African-American life, in Baltimore
  • Rabindranath Tagore publishes Gitanjali
  • Stephen Leacock publishes Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches
  • Charles Olson is born
  • Takuboku Ishikawa publishes Ichiaku no suna
  • Ivan Bunin publishes Derevnya (The Village)
  • Bertrand Russell, in collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, publishes Principia Mathematica, in three volumes
  • Portugal establishes a republican form of government
  • Slavery is abolished in China
  • The Mexican Revolution is fought, with Pancho Villa and other rebel leaders rising against Porfirio Diaz’s autocratic regime
  • Japan annexes Korea
  • Imagism flourishes as a literary movement
  • Expressionism flourishes as a literary form in Germany, France, Britain, and elsewhere
  • Paul Heyse receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Cambridge University acquires the Encyclopaedia Britannica, publishing the twenty-eight-volume, eleventh edition
  • Richard M. Weaver is born (March 3)
  • Mary Baker Eddy dies (December 3)
  • William Sydney Porter (“O. Henry”) dies (June 5)
  • Wright Morris is born (January 6)
  • Leo Tolstoy dies (November 7)
  • Cyrus Colter is born (January 8)
  • Norman MacCaig is born (November 14)
  • Abe Burrows is born (December 18)
  • Jean Genet is born (December 19)
  • José Lezama Lima is born (December 19)
  • Josephine W. Johnson is born (January 20)
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) dies (April 21)
  • Nicholas Monsarrat is born (March 22)
  • Jean Anouilh is born (June 23)
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson dies (April 26)
  • Peter De Vries is born (February 27)
  • Frank Loesser is born (June 29)
  • A(lfred) J(ules) Ayer is born (October 29)