John Luther Long

John Luther Long (born January 1, 1861 in Hanover , Pennsylvania , † October 31, 1927 in Clifton Springs , Ontario County , New York ) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his work Madame Butterfly .

Life

John Luther Long was born on January 1, 1861 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. After studying law, Long was admitted to the bar in October 1881. In addition to his legal work, he also devoted himself to writing. His literary creative period falls in the period 1893–1927.

In 1895, the novella Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo was first published by JB Lippincott Verlag in Philadelphia , in which Long had processed the memory of his sister Sarah Jane Corell. Long's literary fondness for Far Eastern material is not only to be seen in the course of the emerging exoticism or " Japonism ". The writer also owed his affinity to East Asia to his sister "Jennie" - Correll's nickname. She was with Dr. Irvin married Henry Correll, who was director of the Chinzei Gakkan boys' school in Nagasaki / Japan from 1892 to 1895 . The couple did their missionary work there for five years (1892–1897). John Luther Long himself, however, never visited the "Land of the Rising Sun". The works with East Asian content are based on ethnological or ethological source information that was communicated to the author via his sister.

Despite his literary success, the lawyer and writer tried to avoid the media and the public: Long spent the last months of his life in a sanatorium in Clifton Springs , New York, where he died on October 31, 1927.

The short story Madame Butterfly , published in New York's prestigious Century Illustrated Magazine in 1898 , brought John Luther Long the greatest literary success. The playwright and theater director David Belasco (1853–1931) and the Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) and his librettists Giuseppe Giacosa (1847–1906) and Luigi Illica (1857–1919) adapted Long's short story on the one hand as a play (the one-act play Madame Butterfly - a tragedy of Japan , first performance on March 5, 1900 in the Herald Square Theater / New York), on the other hand as an operatic tragedy in two acts ( Madama Butterfly - tragedia giapponese in due atti , first performance on February 17, 1904 at the Teatro alla in Milan Scala ).

Long's short story shows not only content, but also formal parallels to Pierre Loti's autopsychobiographical documentary novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887), which the French composer André Messager (1853–1929) set to music (Opéra lyrique Madame Chrysanthème , world premiere 1893; libretto: Georges Hartmann, Alexandre André).

In 1908 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters .

Works

1895

Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo . Philadelphia: JB Lippincott

1898

Madame Butterfly . New York: Century; The Century Illustrated Magazine 55 (January issue): p. 274-292
Purple eyes . New York: Century
A gentleman of Japan . New York: Century
Kito . New York: Century
Glory . New York: Century

1900

The Fod-Women . Philadelphia: JB Lippincott

1901

Prince of Illusion . New York: Century
Dolce . New York: Century
A no-use . New York: Century
The Honorable Christmas Gift of Yoshida Aramidzu . New York: Century
Dizzy Dave . New York: Century
The Horse Trade . New York: Century
Jane an 'Me. New York: Century
The Dream Woman . New York: Century

1902

Naughty Nan . New York: Century. Published by Lippincotts' 69 (January issue): p. 3-87

1903

Sixty Jane . New York: Century.
The Strike on the Schlafewohlplatz Railroad . New York: Century.
Our Anchel . New York: Century.
The Lady and Her Soul . New York: Century.
The Beautiful Graveyard . New York: Century.
Lucky Jim . New York: Century.
The Outrageous Miss Dawn-Dream . New York: Century.
The Little House in the little Street Where the Sun Never Came . New York: Century.
The atonement . New York: Century.

1903

Madame Butterfly (first book publication). New York: Century.

1904

Little Miss Joy Sing . Philadelphia: H. Altemus

1905

Seffy . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril.
Homesickness . New York: Macmillan.
The siren . New York: Macmillan.
The Loaded Gun . New York: Macmillan.
Loving . New York: Macmillan.
Iupiter Tonans . New York: Macmillan.
Sis . New York: Macmillan.
Thor's Emerald . New York: Macmillan.
Guile . New York: Macmillan.

1906

The Way of the Gods . New York: Grosset and Dunlap.

1908

Felice . New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.

1912

Baby grand . Boston: RG Badger.
Tom, Dick and Harry - Et Cetera . Boston: RG Badger.
Spilled milk . Boston: RG Badger.
Dull Jim . Boston: RG Badger.
Dolly Jack . Boston: RG Badger.
The Little Lady Who Wouldn't Spoil Christmas . Boston: RG Badger.

1913

War or What Happens When One Loves One's Enemy . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril.

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Georg Gerry Tremmel

John Luther Long: "Madame Butterfly". From the American into German. Berlin: Culture Machines, 2010
John Luther Long (1861-1927): "Madame Butterfly" (1898). The literary concept of the American short story in a historical context. Berlin: Logos-Verlag, 2007
David Belasco: "Madame Butterfly". New translation from American into German. Online ( David Belasco, Madame Butterfly ; PDF; 907 kB)
Maureen Honey / Jean Lee Cole (Eds.): "Madame Butterfly", in: Two Oriental Texts, New Brunswick - New Jersey - London: Rutgers University Press, 2002

Ursula Richter

The Geisha's Smile - Secrets of the Japanese Art of Living. Bergisch Gladbach: Ehrenwirth Verlag (Verlagsgruppe Lübbe), 2005

Jan van Rij

Madame Butterfly. Japonisme, Puccini & the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San, Berkeley / California: Stone Bridge Press, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Members: John Luther Long. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 11, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Long, John Luther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1927
Place of death	Clifton Springs , Ontario County , New York

[1] Members: John Luther Long. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 11, 2019 .