1892 IN LITERATURE

The year '1892 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ ''Shadows Uplifted'' by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States

New books

★ Mary Elizabeth Braddon - ''The Venetians''

★ Rhoda Broughton - ''Mrs. Bligh''

★ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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★ ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band''

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★ ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''

★ Charlotte Perkins Gilman - ''The Yellow Wallpaper''

★ George Gissing - ''Born in Exile''

★ George and Weedon Grossmith - ''Diary of a Nobody''

★ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - ''Shadows Uplifted''

★ Herman Heijermans - ''Trinette''

★ Emily Lawless - ''

★ J. McCullough - ''Golf in the Year 2000''

★ Helen Mathers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and 21 others - ''The Fate of Fenella''

★ Robert Louis Stevenson - ''The Wrecker''

★ Mark Twain - ''The American Claimant''

★ Jules Verne - ''Mistress Branican''

★ Mary Ward - ''The History of David Grieve''

★ Israel Zangwill - ''Children of the Ghetto''

★ Emile Zola - ''The Downfall''

New drama

★ Georges Feydeau - ''Champignol malgré lui''

★ Maurice Maeterlinck - ''Pelléas et Mélisande''

★ Brandon Thomas - ''Charley's Aunt''

★ Oscar Wilde - ''Lady Windermere's Fan''

Poetry

★ Rudyard Kipling - ''Barrack-Room Ballads'' (including ''Gunga Din'')

Non-fiction

★ Peter Kropotkin - ''The Conquest of Bread''

Births

★ January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author

★ February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer

★ February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer

★ February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (d. 1950)

★ March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist

★ March 22 - Karel Poláček, writer, humorist, journalist (d. 1944)

★ July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman

★ October 9 - Ivo Andrić (d.1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

Deaths

★ January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor

★ March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet

★ July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar

★ July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist

★ August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher

★ September 7 - Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet

★ October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet

★ October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist

★ October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian

★ December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet

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★ George Grub, historian

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★ Daniel Parrish Kidder, theologian

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★ Gustav Zerffi, journalist

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★ Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, poet

Awards

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