1892 in literature
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The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States
[edit] New books
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Venetians
- Rhoda Broughton - Mrs. Bligh
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 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 - Grania: The Story of an Island
- J. McCullough - Golf in the Year 2000
- Helen Mathers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and 21 others - The Fate of Fenella
- Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - 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
[edit] New drama
- Georges Feydeau - Champignol malgré lui
- Maurice Maeterlinck - Pelléas et Mélisande
- Brandon Thomas - Charley's Aunt
- Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan
[edit] Poetry
- Rudyard Kipling - Barrack-Room Ballads (including Gunga Din)
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet
- George Grub, historian
- Daniel Parrish Kidder, theologian
- Gustav Zerffi, journalist
- Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, poet
