Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 ) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

* The Son of a Star ( 1888 ), an English novel by Benjamin Ward Richardson

William Morris described the revolt in his novel A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ).

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott ( 1832 – 1888 ).

In 1888, Mirbeau published L ' Abbé Jules ( Abbé Jules ), the first pre-Freudian novel written under the influence of Dostoyevsky to appear in French literature ; the text featured two main characters: l ' abbé Jules and Father Pamphile.

* Le Rêve ( novel ), 1888 novel by Emile Zola

Mrs. Ward's popular 1888 novel Robert Elsmere was largely inspired by this era of Froude's life.

Howard read widely, including Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, and Henry George's economic treatise, Progress and Poverty, and thought much about social issues.

After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret ( c. 1886 ), Hume returned to England in 1888.

Anita Loos ( April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981 ) was an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

However, the scholar Matteo Sansone has postulated that as Leoncavallo was a notable student of French culture, and lived in Paris from 1882 to 1888, he had ample opportunity to be exposed to novel French art and musical works.

She had three novels serialized in a Christian magazine from 1868 to 1888, but was better known for what was long considered her first novel, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted ( 1892 ), published as a book when she was 67.

Edward Bellamy ( 1850 – 1898 ), published Looking Backward in 1888, a utopian romance novel about a future socialist society.

* The Count of the Saxon Shore, an 1888 historical novel by Alfred Church

Only after the publication of his first novel, Eline Vere, he became an established author, in 1888.

Couperus came to fame with the publication of his first novel Eline Vere ( 1888 ), a naturalist work influenced by French novelists like Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert.

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").

La Course de la mort ( 1888 ) marks a turning-point in his career: in it he forsook the so-called naturalistic novel for the analysis of moral motives.

Through the years 1877 – 1887 List was also working on his first book-length ( two-volume ) effort, Carnuntum, an historical novel based on his vision of the Kulturkampf between the Germanic and Roman worlds centred at Carnuntum around the year 375 CE that was published in 1888 by the Wannieck family's organisation and publishing house Verein " Deutsche Haus " (" German House " Association )< ref name =" google. co. uk ">

Her most famous novel, The Lodger ( 1913 ), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times ; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( 1927 ), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009.

She is known principally for the novel John Ward, Preacher ( 1888 ), and her ' Old Chester ' books, based on her early memories of Maple Grove and Manchester, Pittsburgh communities where she grew up.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Paolozzi artistically processed man-machine images from popular science books by German doctor and author Fritz Kahn ( 1888 – 1968 ), such as in his screenprint " Wittgenstein in New York " ( 1965 ), the print serie " Secrets of Life – The Human Machine and How it Works " ( 1970 ), or the cover design for John Barth ’ s novel " Lost in the Funhouse " ( Penguin, 1972 ).

Pelton patented his wheel as well as his novel design of the double cup runner, and in 1888 formed the Pelton Water Wheel Company in San Francisco to supply the growing demand for hydropower and hydroelectricity throughout the West and world-wide.

A turn to utopian science fiction with Looking Backward, 2000-1887, published in January 1888, captured the public imagination and catapulted Bellamy to literary fame.

Although Bellamy claimed he did not write Looking Backward as a blueprint for political action, but rather sought to write " a literary fantasy, a fairy tale of social felicity ," the book inspired legions of inspired readers to establish so-called Nationalist Clubs, beginning in Boston late in 1888.

* Looking Backward ( 1888 ) by Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods, while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future ( 1888 ) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

* Looking Backward ( 1888 ) by Edward Bellamy.

The " explicitly socialist " economy of Oz has been contrasted to other " fantasy " projections of socialist societies, like Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) and William Morris's News from Nowhere ( 1890 ).

Also published the year before Connecticut Yankee was Edward Bellamy's wildly popular Looking Backward ( 1888 ), in which the protagonist is put into a hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up in the year 2000.

One adversary he mentioned by name was Edward Bellamy, whose national variant of socialism was set forth in Looking Backward, published in 1888, and the sequel Equality '.

Image: SantaMonica-1888. jpg | Looking south across the bluffs, the Arcadia Hotel sits at the end of the pier, 1888.

Utopian socialism reached the national level, fictionally, in Edward Bellamy's 1888 novel Looking Backward, a Utopian depiction of a socialist United States in the year 2000.

In 1888, Edward Bellamy penned Looking Backward: 2000-1887, a hugely influential utopian novel with socialist themes that outsold all but two books of the era.

* Looking Backward ( 1888 ), by Edward Bellamy, and News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), by William Morris, each feature a protagonist who wakes up in a socialist utopian future.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile ( 685 km ) long railway, and a line of lake steamships.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

Conservation, as a distinct field of study, initially developed in Germany, when in 1888 Friedrich Rathgen became the first chemist to be employed by a Museum, the Koniglichen Museen, Berlin ( Royal Museums of Berlin ).

From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

In 1888, the promoter of the first expedition to Australia and New Zealand, Arthur Shrewsbury, demanded " something that would be good material and yet take them by storm out here ".

An identical expression to Einstein's formula for the diffusion coefficient was also found by Walther Nernst in 1888 in which he expressed the diffusion coefficient as the ratio of the osmotic pressure to the ratio of the frictional force and the velocity to which it gives rise.

Electric lights were in use by 1888.

( The symbol ∈ is a derivation from the Greek letter epsilon, " ε ", introduced by Peano in 1888.

In 1888, all production was moved, by Edward Drummond Libbey, to Toledo, Ohio, where it continues today under the name Owens Illinois.

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.

The Empire tried to soften the problems with laws that would restrict slavery, but Brazil would inevitably recognize its end on May 13, 1888, with a law called Lei Áurea, sanctioned by imperial parliament and signed by princess Isabel.

The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.

The Kingdom of Rarotonga was established in 1858 and in 1888 it became a British protectorate by the request of Queen Makea Takau, mainly to thwart French expansionism.

Edouard van Beneden and Theodor Boveri made the first observation and identification of centrioles in 1883 and 1888 respectively, while the pattern of centriole replication was first worked out independently by Etienne de Harven and Joseph G. Gall circa 1950

** Lāčplēsis (' The Bear-Slayer ') by Andrejs Pumpurs ( 1888 ; Latvian Mythology )