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The year 1890 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.
- Arthur Morrison joins the staff of the Evening Globe newspaper.
New books
- Rolf Boldrewood - The Squatter's Dream
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - One Life, One Love
- Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
- Hall Caine - The Bondman
- Hall Caine - The Scapegoat
- Kate Chopin - At Fault
- Marie Corelli - Wormwood
- Ignatius L. Donnelly - Caesar's Column
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Firm of Girdlestone
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
- Knut Hamsun - Hunger
- William Dean Howells - A Hazard of New Fortunes
- Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed
- William Morris - News from Nowhere
- Octave Mirbeau - Sébastien Roch
- Molly Elliot Seawell - Little Jarvis
- Jules Verne - César Cascabel
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
New drama
Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The Way of Many Rivers
Non-fiction
- Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
- Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History
- Ragnar Redbeard - Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest
- James McNeill Whistler - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Births
- January 9 - Karel Čapek author (d. 1938)
- February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (d. 1960)
- March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (d. 1974)
- May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
- May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist (d. 1971)
- August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (d. 1937)
- August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer (d. 1937)
- September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (d. 1945)
- September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (d. 1976)
- September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist (d. 1971)
- October 13 - Conrad Richter, novelist (d. 1968)
- November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet (d. 1918)
Deaths
- January 2 - George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (b. 1823)
- September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist (b. c. 1820)
- October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author (b. 1821)
- October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio (b. 1826)
- December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1821)
Awards
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