1892 in literature

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The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.

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 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
• 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 Augusta Ward - The History of David Grieve
• Israel Zangwill - Children of the Ghetto
• Emile Zola - The Downfall

New drama

• Georges Feydeau - Champignol malgré lui
• 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 (died 1973)
• February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer (died 1960)
• February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (died 1950)
• February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (died 1950)
• March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist (died 1955)
• March 22 - Karel Poláček, writer, humorist, journalist (died 1944)
• July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman (died 1977)
• October 9 - Ivo Andrić (died 1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

Deaths

• January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor (born 1813)
• January 28 - Gustav Zerffi, journalist (born 1820)
• March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet (born 1819)
• July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar (born 1826)
• July 15 - Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet (born 1805)
• July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist (born 1827)
• August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher (born 1846)
• September 7 - John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet (born 1807)
• October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet (born 1866)
• October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist (born 1849)
• October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian (born 1829)
• December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher (born 1822)
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  • George Grub, historian (born 1812)
  • Daniel Parrish Kidder, theologian (born 1815)
  • Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, poet (born 1825)

Awards