1886 IN LITERATURE

The year '1886 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ ''MLN: Modern Language Notes'', an academic journal founded with the intention of introducing European literary criticism into American scholarship, is founded at the Johns Hopkins University.

New books

★ Louisa May Alcott - ''Jo's Boys''

★ Edmondo De Amicis - ''Heart''

★ Leon Bloy - ''Disperato''

★ Rhoda Broughton - ''Doctor Cupid''

★ Frances Hodgson Burnett - ''Little Lord Fauntleroy''

★ Hall Caine - ''A Son of Hagar''

★ Mary Cholmondeley - ''The Danvers Jewels''

★ Wilkie Collins

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★ ''The Evil Genius''

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★ ''The Guilty River''

★ Marie Corelli - ''A Romance of Two Worlds''

★ George Eliot - ''Felix Holt, the Radical''

★ Thomas Hardy - ''The Mayor of Casterbridge''

★ William Dean Howells - ''Indian Summer''

★ Henry James - ''The Bostonians''

★ Jerome K. Jerome - ''The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow''

★ Pierre Loti - ''Pêcheur d'Islande''

★ George A. Moore - ''A Drama in Muslin''

★ Robert Louis Stevenson - ''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''

★ August Strindberg - ''Married I-II'' (short stories)

★ Jules Verne

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★ ''Clipper Of The Clouds''

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★ ''Robur The Conqueror''

★ Philippe Villiers - ''Eva Futura''

New drama

★ Anton Chekhov - ''On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco''

★ W. B. Yeats - ''Mosada''

Non-fiction

★ Edwin Abbott Abbott - ''The Kernel and the Husk''

★ William Morris - ''A Dream of John Ball''

Births

★ January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (+ 1947)

★ March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, poet and artist (+ 1980)

★ September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet and memoirist (+ 1967)

★ September 20 - Charles Williams, British author and member of the Inklings (+ 1945)

★ November 1 - Hermann Broch, Modernist writer (+ 1951)

★ November 21 - Harold Nicolson, British author

★ December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, journalist (+ 1968)

Deaths

★ May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet

★ May 17 - Erskine May, constitutional theorist

★ July 21 - Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, historian

★ August 9 - Samuel Ferguson, poet

★ November 22 - Mary Chesnut, diarist

★ December 12 - Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist

★ ''date unknown'' - Matilda Jane Evans, novelist

Awards

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