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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1880.

Events

  • February – The journal Science is first published in the United States, with financial backing from Thomas Edison.{{cite journal |author= |date= 7 February 1947 |title= Thomas A. Edison and the Founding of Science: 1880 |journal= Science |volume= 105 |issue= 2719 |pages= 142–148 |doi=10.1126/science.105.2719.142 |pmid= 17813458 |bibcode= 1947Sci...105..142. }}
  • April – Publication in France of Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of six Naturalist short stories set during the Franco-Prussian War by six authors who frequent Émile Zola's home, including Guy de Maupassant's first, "Boule de Suif", which launches his career.{{cite book|author1=M. Paul Holsinger|author2=Mary Anne Schofield|title=Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GqTvgc_VZTkC&pg=PA192|year=1992|publisher=Popular Press|isbn=978-0-87972-556-3|pages=192}}
  • April 20 (O. S.: April 8) – At the Romanian Academy, Titu Maiorescu announces a reformed Romanian alphabet, adopted by a commission also comprising George Bariț and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.{{cite book|last=Urziceanu |first=Florentina|title=Titu Maiorescu 1840–1917. Bio-bibliografie selectivă|publisher=Aman County Library|location=Craiova|year=2005|page=12}} The rationalized spelling reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the deep orthography favored by "Latinists".{{cite book|last=Ivașcu|first=George|authorlink=George Ivașcu|editor-last1=Cioculescu|editor-first1=Șerban|editor-link1=Șerban Cioculescu|editor-last2=Papadima|editor-first2=Ovidiu|editor-link2=Ovidiu Papadima|editor-last3=Piru|editor-first3=Alexandru|editor-link3=Alexandru Piru|title=Istoria literaturii române. III: Epoca marilor clasici|publisher=Editura Academiei|location=Bucharest|year=1973|pages=95–99, 129|chapter=Titu Maiorescu}}
  • May – In the United States, the publishing business of Henry Oscar Houghton and George H. Mifflin is reconstructed as Houghton, Mifflin and Company.{{cite book|author=Henry James|title=The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWNKDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA207|date=15 October 2016|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-8827-0|pages=207}}
  • June 6 – Statue of Alexander Pushkin (d. 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow.
  • October – Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady begins serial publication in Macmillan's Magazine (U.K.) and The Atlantic Monthly (U.S.)
  • December 15 – First performance of a play by Henrik Ibsen in English, The Pillars of Society (under the title Quicksands) at the Gaiety Theatre, London.{{cite web|title=English first performances|url=http://www.ibsen.net/index.gan?id=90071&subid=0|work=Ibsen.net|date=2004-05-12|accessdate=2013-02-08}}

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Births

  • February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952)
  • February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimké, African-American playwright and poet (died 1958)
  • March 1 – Lytton Strachey, English critic and biographer (died 1932)S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)’, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36338 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography], Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006
  • March 4 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (died 1946)
  • March 13 – Frank Thiess, German writer (died 1977)
  • March 21 – E. H. Young, English novelist (died 1949)
  • March 30 – Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist (died 1964){{cite web|title=Sean O'Casey - Irish dramatist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sean-OCasey|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=7 July 2017|language=en}}
  • June 10 – Margit Kaffka, Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1918)
  • June 17 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer (died 1964){{Citation |last = White |first = Edward |title = The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America |place = New York |publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year = 2014 |isbn = 978-0-374-20157-9 }}
  • June 27 – Helen Keller, American writer and lecturer (died 1968){{cite journal| title=The Southern Ties of Helen Keller| year=2007| last=Nielsen| first=Kim E.| journal=Journal of Southern History| volume=73| issue=4| pages=783–806| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242408791| url-access=registration| doi=10.2307/27649568| jstor=27649568| access-date=March 15, 2016| archive-date=January 9, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109211522/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242408791_The_Southern_Ties_of_Helen_Keller| url-status=live}}
  • July 4 – Anne Beffort, Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died 1966)
  • July 10 – Greye La Spina, American writer (died 1969)
  • August 5 – Ruth Sawyer, American children's writer and novelist (died 1970)
  • August 15 – Anna Rüling, German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died 1953){{cite book |title=The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 |first=Katharina|last=Rowold|publisher=Routledge|year=2011|isbn=978-1134625840|page=146}}
  • August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and dramatist (died 1918){{cite web|author=Annette Becker|url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/apollinaire_guillaume/|title=Apollinaire, Guillaume|website=International Encyclopedia of the First World War}}
  • September 12 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and English language scholar (died 1956){{cite encyclopedia |last=Evans |first=Rod L. |author-link=Rod L. Evans |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link= Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |chapter=Mencken, H. L. (1880–1956)|chapter-url=https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/libertarianism/n196.xml|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |year=2008 |publisher=Sage; Cato Institute |location=Thousand Oaks, CA |isbn=978-1-4129-6580-4 |oclc=750831024 |lccn=2008009151 |pages=324–325 |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n196|url-access=subscription }}
  • October 4 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and short-story writer (died 1946){{cite news | title = Birth Announcement | publisher = The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist | date = October 7, 1880}}
  • October 17 – Vasile Cijevschi, Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died 1931)
  • October 18 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died 1940)
  • November 1 – Grantland Rice, American sports writer (died 1954)
  • November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (died 1942)
  • November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died 1960)
  • November 29 – N. D. Cocea, Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died 1949)
  • December 24 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's author (died 1938){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RiqMYuNYlSgC&q=john+gruelle+1880&pg=PA25 | title=Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy |author=Patricia Hall |publisher = Pelican Publishing | year= 1993| isbn=978-0882899084|pages=25–26|access-date=September 14, 2018}}

Deaths

Awards

  • Commander, First Class of the Order of St. Olav – Andreas Munch
  • Newdigate Prize – Rennell Rodd, "Raleigh"{{cite book|author1=T. Bose|author2=R. N. Colbeck|title=A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQetGZ2D3YYC&pg=PA677|date=1 November 2011|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-4481-9|pages=677}}

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