1890 in literature

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The year 1890 in literature involved some significant new books.

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
• Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)
• 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

• James Herne - Margaret Fleming
• Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
• Maurice Maeterlinck - The Blind
• Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs - Pension Schöller

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 (died 1938)
• February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (died 1960)
• March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (d. 1974)
• May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist (died 1980)
• May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist (died 1971)
• August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (died 1937)
• August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer (died 1937)
• September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (died 1945)
• September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (died 1976)
• September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist (died 1971)
• October 1 - Blanche Oelrichs, poet & playwright (died 1950)
• October 13 - Conrad Richter, novelist (died 1968)
• November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet (died 1918)

Deaths

• January 2 - George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (born 1823)
• September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist (b. c. 1820)
• October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author (born 1821)
• October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio (born 1826)
• December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist (born 1821)

Awards

• Newdigate prize - Laurence Binyon