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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1891. ==Events== *January - ''The Strand Magazine'' is first published in London. On June 25 Arthur Conan Doyle's private consulting detective Sherlock Holmes appears in it for the first time, in the story "A Scandal in Bohemia" (issue dated July). *January 31 - Henrik Ibsen's play ''Hedda Gabler'' (published in 1890) is first performed, at the Königliches Residenz-Theater in Munich (the city where it was written), with Clara Heese playing the lead. The first British performance is on April 20 at the recently reopened Vaudeville Theatre, London, with Elizabeth Robins as Hedda and co-directing. *March 13 - Henrik Ibsen's play ''Ghosts'' (published in 1881) achieves a single London performance, its English-language stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts strong criticism on moral grounds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Theatreland Timeline )〕 *April - Oscar Wilde's novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is first published in book format by Ward and Lock in London with the aphoristic preface originally published in the March 1 issue of ''The Fortnightly Review''. *May - William Morris establishes the Kelmscott Press as a private press at Hammersmith (London) and produces its first book, the first edition in book format of his fantasy novel ''The Story of the Glittering Plain''. *May 21 - Maurice Maeterlinck's play ''Intruder'' (''L'Intruse'') is premièred at Paul Fort's Theatre d'Art in Paris. *c. Late June - In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home. *July 1 - International Copyright Act of 1891 comes into effect in the United States permitting foreign authors to register their works for copyright. On July 3, the first such work, the play ''Saints and Sinners'' by English author Henry Arthur Jones, is registered. *July 4–December 26 - Thomas Hardy's novel ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' is serialized in expurgated form in the weekly illustrated newspaper ''The Graphic''〔Vol. XLIV.〕 (London); in November the first (unexpurgated) book edition is published in London. *August 22 - Israel Zangwill's ''The Big Bow Mystery'', the first classic full-length locked room mystery, begins serialization in ''The Star'' (London). *October 9 - Émile Zola's stage adaptation of his novel ''Thérèse Raquin'' (first performed in 1873) achieves a single London performance, its English stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts criticism on moral grounds. *September 4 - Ambrose Bierce dates the preface of ''Tales of Soldiers and Civilians'' for this day, although it will not actually be issued (in San Francisco) until 1892.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tales of Soldiers and Civilians )〕 It includes "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", one of his best known works. *December - Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto", which he regards as his best short story. *December 7 - Maurice Maeterlinck's play ''The Blind'' (''Les aveugles'') is premièred. *Tristan Bernard has his first work published in ''La Revue Blanche'' (which returns to Parisian publication in October) and adopts his pseudonym. *Sophia Alice Callahan's ''Wynema, a Child of the Forest'' is published, the first work of fiction by a Native American woman in English. *Publication of the first complete 1-volume popular German language translation of Shakespeare's plays. *Approximate date - Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1891 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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