1884 IN LITERATURE

The year '1884 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ February 1 - Edition one of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is published.

New books

★ Edwin Abbott Abbott - ''Flatland''

★ Henry Brooks Adams - ''

★ Aluísio de Azevedo - ''Casa de Pensão''

★ Richard Doddridge Blackmore - ''Tommy Upmore''

★ Mary Elizabeth Braddon - ''Ishmael. A Novel''

★ Wilkie Collins - '''I Say No'''

★ Joris-Karl Huysmans

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★ ''Controcorrente''

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★ ''À rebours''

★ Helen Hunt Jackson - ''Ramona''

★ George A. Moore - ''A Mummer's Wife''

★ Margaret Oliphant

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★ ''The Ladies Lindores''

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★ ''The Wizard's Son''

★ Rachilde - ''Monsieur Vénus''

★ Leo Tolstoy - ''The Death of Ivan Ilyich''

★ Mary Augusta Ward - ''Miss Bretherton''

New drama

★ Henrik Ibsen - ''The Wild Duck''

Poetry

★ William Watson -''Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature''

Non-fiction

★ Friedrich Engels - ''The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State''

★ ''Herefordshire Pomona''

★ Henry James - ''A Little Tour in France''

★ George Fletcher Moore - ''Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia''

Births

★ January 2 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker (+ 1951)

★ March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (+ 1941)

★ August 8 – Sara Teasdale, poet (d. 1933)

★ August 10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer (d. 1935)

★ August 24 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer

Deaths

★ January 11 - Hermann Ulrici, philosopher

★ March 10 - William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist

★ March 24 - François Mignet, historian

★ April 5 - John Wisden, originator of the ''Cricketers' Almanack''

★ April 6 - Emanuel Geibel, poet

★ April 11 - Charles Reade, English writer

★ May 27 - Caroline Dexter, feminist writer

★ May 28 - Joseph d'Haussonville, historian

★ June 10 - Johann Gustav Droysen, historian

★ October 16 - Paul Lacroix, novelist and journalist

★ October 19 - Karl Hillebrand, literary historian and philosopher

★ November 6 - William Wells Brown, African-American writer

★ ''date unknown''

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★ František Doucha, translator

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★ John Harris, poet

Awards

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