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- Wilkie Collins was born on 8 January 1824 in London, England, UK. Wilkie was a writer, known for The Woman in White (1948), The Moonstone (1934) and She Loves and Lies (1920). Wilkie died on 23 September 1889 in London, England, UK.
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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time - his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as willfully obscure - and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868-1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889 he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.- Ion Creanga was born on 10 June 1839 in Humulesti, Moldavia, Ottoman Empire [now Romania]. He was a writer, known for Povestea dragostei (1977), Tusea si junghiul (1992) and The Goat and Her Three Kids (2022). He was married to Ileana Grigoriu. He died on 31 December 1889 in Iasi, Moldova, Romania.
- Chernyshevskiy (often simplified to Chernyshevsky) began his life as a bright young Russian thinker who sympathized with the impoverished masses in the old Tsarist Russian Empire and who opposed the Russian "establishment." He got his degree from St Petersburg University in 1850 and then taught school 3 years in the provinces. He returned to St. Petersbug (then the capital) in 1853, married, and became a writer and editor (Russia's most famous liberal literary journal, "Sovremennik" ["The Contemporary"]. As he became more radical and critical of the established Tsarist order, he was jailed in the 1860s, where he secretly wrote and smuggled from his cell his most famous novel, "Chto delat?" ["What is to be Done?"]. His novel was hastily published by "Sovremennik," but most copies were quickly seized by the authorities. Thus Russians who wanted to read Chernyshevskiy's "banned book" needed to get it in editions published abroad (in various languages, including Russian). This inflammatory leftist book became "forbidden fruit" for later Russian radicals like Lenin. After the Russian Communist Revolution (1917), "What is to be Done" was canonized as a major Soviet classic, published in mass editions, taught as a compulsory text in schools, adapted for stage and screen, etc. (Even an Italian film adaptation in the 1970s.) But in recent decades the old Soviet classic writers and their writings -- Gorkiy (Gorky), Chernyshevskiy, and their like -- have largely gone out of fashion. Recent generations of young people have come to regard them as dogmatic and boring. More film adaptations seem unlikely in the foreseeable future, even though a recent Broadway stage treatment of Chernyshevskiy and other old Russian radicals did attract some attention and critical commentary.
- Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War. He previously served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857 under President Franklin Pierce.
- Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was born on 2 November 1808 in Saint-Sauveur-Le-Vicomte, Manche, France. Jules-Amédée was a writer, known for Don Giovanni (1970), Die Rache einer Frau (1921) and The Seven Deadly Sins (1952). Jules-Amédée died on 23 April 1889 in Paris, France.
- Alice McKenzie was born Alice Pitts on March 8th 1845 in the Precincts of Peterborough Minster (Cathedral), Cambridgeshire (England) to Charles, a post office messenger, and Martha, neé Watson. She had four older siblings, William, John, Martha and Jane, and two younger brothers, Charles and Thomas.
Around 1860, when she was 15, Alice worked for Mrs Strickland in her refreshment rooms in St. John Street, Peterborough. In 1861, aged 17, Alice no longer lived with her family, but in the household of a master brazier named Edward Miller in High Cross Street, Leicester where she was employed as a house servant.
On October 11th 1863 Alice Pitts marries Joseph Kinsey or McKenzie, a 21-year-old chair and cabinet maker at All Saints Church, Leicester. Three years later, on 21st July 1866 they became parents of Joseph James at Freeman's Common, St Mary. Sadly, on October 12th of the same year baby Joseph James died of 'marasmus' (a form of malnutrition) at 4 Joseph Street, St. Mary, Leicester. The following year, on 18th February 1867 Joseph Kinsey died aged 25 of tuberculosis at the same place. Alice was around 22.
From 1883 Alice lived, off and on, with an Irishman named John McCormack (also Bryant) who was in the employ of some Jewish tailors in Hamburg Street as a porter, at various East End common lodging and doss-houses.
On Wednesday 17th July 1889, at 12:45am it began to rain in Whitechapel. Five minutes later, P.C. Andrews returned to Castle Alley on his regular beat, about twenty-seven minutes having passed since he left the area. This time, however, he discovered the body of a woman lying on the pavement, her head angled toward the curb and her feet toward the wall. Blood flowed from two stabs in the left side of her neck and her skirts had been lifted, revealing blood across her abdomen, which had been mutilated.
It would be several hours before the body was identified, in the meantime a description was circulated to the newspapers, with one peculiarity: part of the nail on the thumb on the left hand was deficient. The papers also mentioned the clay pipe found near the body.
Alice was buried in Plaistow Cemetery (East London) on Wednesday 24th July, 1889. - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born on 27 January 1826 in Spas-Ugol, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire [now Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for House of Greed (1934), Poshekhonskaya starina (1977) and Ono (1990). He died on 10 May 1889 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
- Ludwig Anzengruber was born on 29 November 1839 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for Der Meineidbauer (1915), Der ledige Hof (1919) and Der Meineidbauer (1941). He was married to Adelinde Lipka. He died on 10 December 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
- Paolo Ferrari was born on 5 April 1822 in Modena, Duchy of Modena [now Emilia-Romagna, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Il suicidio (1916), Il ridicolo (1916) and Le vie del cuore (1942). He was married to Ersilia Branchini. He died on 9 March 1889 in Milan, Italy.
- James Albery was born on 4 May 1832 in London, England, UK. James was a writer, known for The Victorians (1963). James was married to Mary Moore. James died on 16 August 1889 in London, England, UK.
- Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam was born on 7 November 1838 in Saint-Brieuc, France. Auguste de Villiers was a writer, known for Tomorrow's Eve, Conte cruel (1930) and L'évasion (1922). Auguste de Villiers died on 18 August 1889 in Paris, France.
- Gisela von Arnim was born on 30 August 1827 in Berlin, Germany. She was a writer, known for Gritta of the Rats' Castle (1985). She was married to Herman Grimm. She died on 4 April 1889 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Félix Pyat was born on 4 October 1810 in Vierzon, Cher, France. He was a writer, known for Father John; or, The Ragpicker of Paris (1913) and Le chiffonnier de Paris (1924). He died on 4 August 1889 in Saint-Gratien, Val-d'Oise, France.
- Mihai Eminescu was born on 15 January 1850 in Botosani, Principality of Moldavia. He was a writer, known for Adela (1985), Poetry Is Not Dead (2015) and Great Romanians (2006). He died on 15 June 1889 in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania.
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James Halliwell-Phillipps was born on 21 June 1820 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Crooked Man, The Crooked Mile and Storyteller (2020). He died on 3 January 1889 in East Sussex, England, UK.- Marcus Reno was born on 15 November 1834 in Carrollton, Illinois, USA. He died on 30 March 1889 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Emile DeNajac was born on 14 December 1828 in Lorient, Morbihan, France. He was a writer, known for That Uncertain Feeling (1941), Kiss Me Again (1925) and Divorcons (1915). He was married to Elisabeth Mahérault. He died on 11 April 1889 in Paris, France.
- Olivier Métra was born on 2 June 1830 in Reims, Marne, France. He died on 22 October 1889 in Paris, France.
- Eduardo Gutiérrez was born on 15 July 1851 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer, known for Juan Moreira (1913), Juan Moreira (1936) and Juan Moreira (1948). He died on 2 August 1889 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on 28 July 1844 in Stratford, London, England, UK. Gerard was a writer, known for Camera Three (1955), The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955) and Spring: An Animation of the Hopkins Poem (2010). Gerard died on 8 June 1889 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland].
- Émile Augier was born on 17 September 1820 in Valence, Drôme, France. He was a writer, known for The Temptress (1920), New Lives for Old (1925) and Les Fourchambault (1929). He died on 25 October 1889 in Croissy-sur-Seine, Yvelines, France.
- Robert Hamerling was born on 24 March 1830 in Kirchberg am Walde, Austria. He was a writer, known for To the Nations (2016). He died on 13 July 1889 in Graz, Austria.