1885 in literature

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The year 1885 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Poetry 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

• February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time
• May 19 - Revised Version Old Testament published.
• Thomas Hardy moves to Max Gate.

[edit] New books

• Hall Caine
  • She's All the World to Me
  • The Shadow of a Crime
• Lewis Carroll - A Tangled Tale
• H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
• William Dean Howells - Rise of Sylas Lapham
• Richard Jefferies - After London
• Jerome K. Jerome - On the Stage—and Off
• Guy de Maupassant - Bel-Ami
• George Meredith - Diana of the Crossways
• Daniel Owen - Rhys Lewis
• Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Prince Otto
• Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Jules Vallés - Jacques Vingtras
• Jules Verne - Mathias Sandorf
• Émile Zola - Germinal

[edit] Poetry

• See 1885 in poetry

[edit] Non-fiction

• Anténor Firmin - De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (On the Equality of Human Races)

[edit] Births

• January 16 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese vernacular writer (+ 1967)
• February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist (+ 1951)
• February 21 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist and screenwriter (+ 1957)
• March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)
• May 2 - Hedda Hopper, columnist (+ 1966)
• September 11 - D. H. Lawrence, novelist and short-story writer (+ 1930)
• October 3 - Sophie Treadwell, dramatist and journalist
• October 11 - François Mauriac, novelist (+ 1970)
• October 30 - Ezra Pound, poet (+ 1972)

[edit] Deaths

• February 14 – Jules Vallés, French writer
• April 8 - Susanna Moodie, English-born author of "Canadiana"
• April 18 - Marc Monnier, author and translator
• May 22 - Victor Hugo, poet and novelist
• June 18 - Louis Segond, theologian
• July 13 - Augusto Vera, philosopher
• September 18 - John Campbell Shairp, critic
• date unknown
  • Anne Gilchrist, critic and biographer

[edit] Awards