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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1897. ==Events== *January–March - Oscar Wilde, imprisoned in Reading Gaol in England, writes his letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, ''De Profundis''. *January 2 - Newspapers in London, England erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement "the report of my death was an exaggeration." *April 13 - The Grand Guignol is opened in Paris by Oscar Méténier. *May 19 - Oscar Wilde is released early this morning from Pentonville Prison in London (to which he has been transferred from Reading Gaol the previous night). This afternoon he visits Hatchards bookshop briefly before catching an evening train to Newhaven ''en route'' to exile on the continent under the name "Sebastian Melmoth". *May 26 - Theatrical manager Bram Stoker's contemporary Gothic horror novel ''Dracula'' is published in London by Constable with a late change of title from ''The Un-Dead''; it will influence the direction of vampire literature for the following century. On May 18 he had staged a reading of a dramatised version at the Lyceum Theatre, London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/staged-reading-of-dracula-at-the-lyceum-theatre-in-1897/ )〕 *July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. *December 30 - The comedy ''The White Horse Inn'' (''Im weißen Rößl''), by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg, opens in Berlin; decades later it will be turned into a popular and successful musical play. *Hall Caine's novel ''The Christian'' is published, becoming the first in Britain to sell a million copies.〔 ()〕 *Anna Katharine Green's ''That Affair Next Door'' introduces the first female fictional detective character in a novel, Amelia Butterworth, an inquisitive New York society spinster. *Benito Pérez Galdós is elected to the Real Academia Española. *The publisher Doubleday is founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with magazine publisher Samuel McClure in New York City. *The publisher Commercial Press () is founded as the first modern publishing organisation in China by 26-year-old Xia Ruifang and three friends in Shanghai. 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「1897 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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