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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1916. ==Events== *January - ''The Journal of Negro History'' is founded by Carter G. Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week", in the United States. *March 1 - Transfer of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth into its purpose-built premises is completed. *March 22 - Marriage of J. R. R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, England. They will serve as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lúthien and Beren. Tolkien leaves for military service in France at the beginning of June. *May 16 - Natsume Sōseki's novel ''Light and Darkness'' (明暗, ''Mei An'') begins serialization 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 * *First day on the Somme: Poets W. N. Hodgson, Will Streets, Gilbert Waterhouse, Henry Field, Alfred Ratcliffe, Alexander Robertson and Bernard White are among the 19,000 British soldiers killed on this day alone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/killedsomme.html )〕 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 Wyndham Tennant, English short story writer 'Saki' and English bowler Percy Jeeves (whose name P. G. Wodehouse borrowed for his character) are all killed; English writer Robert Graves and novelist Stuart Cloete are seriously wounded (Graves is believed killed) and A. A. Milne is invalided out; English poet Siegfried Sassoon wins the Military Cross; and Cameron Highlander Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna composes the Scottish Gaelic love song ''An Eala Bhàn'' ("The White Swan") in the oral literature tradition. * *W. B. Yeats makes his fifth and final proposal of marriage to the newly widowed Maud Gonne in France. *Summer - In the United States 15-year-old Margaret Mitchell writes the manuscript of a novella called ''Lost Laysen'' in two notebooks. She will later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book remains lost until rediscovered in the mid-1990s and published in 1996. Meanwhile, Mitchell will go on to write ''Gone with the Wind''. *September - Joseph Conrad's novella ''The Shadow Line'' commences serialization in both ''The English Review'' and the ''Metropolitan Magazine'' (New York). *October 19 - New building for the German National Library opens in Leipzig. *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. 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「1916 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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