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

==Events==
*February – The journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' is first published in the United States, with financial backing from [[Thomas Edison]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Not stated--> |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. }}</ref>
*April – Publication in France of ''[[Les Soirées de Médan]]'', a collection of six [[Naturalism (literature)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[April 20]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|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]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Urziceanu |first=Florentina|title=Titu Maiorescu 1840–1917. Bio-bibliografie selectivă|publisher=Aman County Library|location=Craiova|year=2005|page=12}}</ref> The [[Spelling reform|rationalized spelling]] reflects ideas endorsed by Maiorescu since the 1860s, replacing the [[Orthographic depth|deep orthography]] favored by "Latinists".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*May – In the United States, the publishing business of [[Henry Oscar Houghton]] and [[George H. Mifflin]] is reconstructed as [[Houghton, Mifflin and Company]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[June 6]] – Statue of [[Alexander Pushkin]] (d. 1837), sculpted by [[Alexander Opekushin]], is unveiled in [[Pushkinskaya Square|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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Henry Brooks Adams|Henry Adams]] (anonymously) – ''[[Democracy: An American Novel]]''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''Second Thoughts''
*[[Wilkie Collins]] – ''Jezebel's Daughter''
*[[Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield]] – ''[[Endymion (Disraeli)|Endymion]]''
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] – ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]] (Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy)''
*[[Amelia Edwards]] – ''Lord Brackenbury''
*[[Evelyn Everett-Green]] – ''Tom Tempest's Victory''
*[[Theodor Fontane]]
**''Grete Minde''
**''[[Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg]]''
*[[George Gissing]] – ''[[Workers in the Dawn]]''
*Walter T. Gray ([[Metta Victoria Fuller Victor]]) – ''A Bad Boy's Diary''
*[[Percy Greg]] – ''[[Across the Zodiac]]''
*[[Anna Katharine Green]] – ''A Strange Disappearance''
*[[Thomas Hardy]] – ''[[The Trumpet-Major]]''
*[[Henry Kendall (poet)|Henry Kendall]] – ''[[Songs from the Mountains]]''
*[[Alexander Kielland]] – ''Garman og Worse''
*[[Pierre Loti]] – ''[[Le Mariage de Loti]]'' (as ''Rarahu'')
*[[Ouida]] – ''Moths''
*[[Louisa Parr]] – ''Adam and Eve''
*[[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]] – ''[[The Golovlyov Family]] (Господа Головлёвы, Gospoda Golovlyovy)'' 
*[[Anthony Trollope]] – ''[[The Duke's Children]]''
*[[Mark Twain]] – ''[[A Tramp Abroad]]''
*[[Giovanni Verga]] – ''Vita dei campi'' (The Life of the Fields, short stories, including "Cavalleria rusticana" – "Rustic chivalry")
*[[Lew Wallace]] – ''[[Ben-Hur (novel)|Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]''
*[[Émile Zola]] – ''[[Nana (Novel)|Nana]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Carlo Collodi]] – ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]] (Le avventure di Pinocchio)''
*[[Evelyn Everett-Green]] – ''Tom Tempest's Victory''
*[[Johanna Spyri]] – ''[[Heidi]]''
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[The Steam House]] (La Maison à vapeur)''

===Drama===
*[[Adolphe L'Arronge]] – ''[[The Lonei Household]] (Haus Lonei)''
*[[Augustus Harris]] and [[Paul Meritt]] – ''The World''
*[[Oscar Wilde]] – ''[[Vera; or, The Nihilists]]'' (privately printed)

===Poetry===
*[[Anne Evans (poet)|Anne Evans]] (died 1870) – ''Poems and Music'' (with a memorial preface by [[Anne Isabella Thackeray]])

===Non-fiction===
*[[Henry Charlton Bastian]] – ''The Brain as an Organ of Mind''
*[[James Legge]] – ''The Religions of China''
*[[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] – ''A Study of Shakespeare''
*[[Charles Warren]] – ''The Temple or the Tomb. Giving further evidence in favour of the authenticity of the present site of the Holy Sepulchre''

==Births==
*[[February 21]] – [[Waldemar Bonsels]], German writer (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
*[[February 27]] – [[Angelina Weld Grimké]], African-American playwright and poet (died [[1958 in literature|1958]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Lytton Strachey]], English critic and biographer (died [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>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</ref>
*[[March 4]] – [[Channing Pollock (writer)|Channing Pollock]], American playwright and critic (died [[1946 in literature|1946]])
*[[March 13]] – [[Frank Thiess]], German writer (died [[1977 in literature|1977]])
*[[March 21]] – [[E. H. Young]], English novelist (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])
*[[March 30]] – [[Seán O'Casey]], Irish dramatist (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[June 10]] – [[Margit Kaffka]], Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (died [[1918 in literature|1918]])
*[[June 17]] – [[Carl Van Vechten]], American writer (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
*[[June 27]] – [[Helen Keller]], American writer and lecturer (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[July 4]] – [[Anne Beffort]], Luxembourg literary writer and biographer (died [[1966 in literature|1966]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Greye La Spina]], American writer (died [[1969 in literature|1969]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Ruth Sawyer]], American children's writer and novelist (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])
*[[August 15]] – [[Anna Rüling]], German journalist, the first known lesbian activist (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[August 26]] – [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet and dramatist (died [[1918 in literature|1918]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[September 12]] – [[H. L. Mencken]], American journalist and English language scholar (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])<ref>{{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 Publishing|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 }}</ref>
*[[October 4]] – [[Damon Runyon]], American journalist and short-story writer (died [[1946 in literature|1946]])<ref>{{cite news | title = Birth Announcement | publisher = The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist | date = October 7, 1880}}</ref>
*[[October 17]] – [[Vasile Cijevschi]], Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (died [[1931 in literature|1931]]) 
*[[October 18]] – [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]], Russian-born Zionist leader, novelist and poet (died [[1940 in literature|1940]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Grantland Rice]], American sports writer (died [[1954 in literature|1954]])
*[[November 6]] – [[Robert Musil]], Austrian novelist (died [[1942 in literature|1942]])
*[[November 25]] – [[Elsie J. Oxenham]] (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English story writer for girls (died [[1960 in literature|1960]])
*[[November 29]] – [[N. D. Cocea]], Romanian novelist, critic and journalist (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])
*[[December 24]] – [[Johnny Gruelle]], American cartoonist and children's author (died [[1938 in literature|1938]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 12]] – [[Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn]], German author (born [[1805 in literature|1805]])<ref>{{EB1911 |inline=1 |wstitle=Hahn-Hahn, Ida, Countess von |volume=12 |page=819}}</ref>
*[[February 12]] – [[Karl Eduard von Holtei]], German poet and dramatist (born [[1798 in literature|1798]])
*[[February 17]] – [[James Lenox]], American bibliophile (born [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[April 9]] – [[Louis Edmond Duranty]], French novelist and critic (born [[1833 in literature|1833]])
*[[April 16]] – [[Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy]], Irish writer and barrister (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[April 18]] – [[Costache Aristia]], Wallachian translator, poet, dramatist and actor (born [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Eunice Hale Cobb]], American writer, public speaker, and activist (born [[1803 in literature|1803]])
*[[May 5]] – [[Andrei Mocioni]], Hungarian-Romanian journalist and literary patron (born [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[May 6]] – [[Ivan Surikov]], Russian poet (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Gustave Flaubert]], French novelist (born [[1821 in literature|1821]])<ref>[[Edmund Gosse]] (1911) [http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/f/gustave_flaubert.html ''Flaubert, Gustave''] entry in [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition]], Volume 10, Slice 4</ref>
*[[May 30]] – [[James Planché]], English dramatist (born [[1796 in literature|1796]])
*[[June 7]] – [[Karl Christian Planck]], German philosopher (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[July 7]] – [[Lydia Maria Child]], American writer and abolitionist (born [[1802 in literature|1802]])
*[[July 12]] – [[Tom Taylor]], English dramatist and journalist (born [[1817 in literature|1817]])
*[[September 23]] – [[Geraldine Jewsbury]], English novelist and woman of letters (born [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[December 22]] – [[George Eliot]] (Mary Anne Cross), English novelist (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nancy Henry|title=The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HscXVYCfkNMC&pg=PA13|date=7 April 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-46968-5|pages=13}}</ref>

==Awards==
*Commander, First Class of the [[Order of St. Olav]] – [[Andreas Munch]]
*[[Newdigate Prize]] – [[Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell|Rennell Rodd]], "Raleigh"<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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