1891 in literature

1891 in literature

The year 1891 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Guy de Maupassant is officially diagnosed as insane.
*Tristan Bernard has his first work published in "La Revue Blanche".
*Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto", which he regarded as his best short story.

New books

*Grant Allen - "The Great Taboo"
*J. M. Barrie - "The Little Minister"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"
*Arthur Conan Doyle - "The White Company"
*George du Maurier - "Peter Ibbetson"
*George Gissing - "New Grub Street"
*Thomas Hardy - "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans - "La Bas"
*Jerome K. Jerome - "Diary of a Pilgrimage"
*Herman Melville - "Timoleon"
*Georges Ohnet - "Dernier Amour"
*Howard Pyle - "Men of Iron"
*Jules Verne - "Mistress Branican"
*Margaret L. Woods - "Esther Vanhomrigh"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge
**"Two Penniless Princesses"
**"Unknown to History"
*Émile Zola - "L'Argent"

New drama

*Oscar Wilde - "Salome"
*Frank Wedekind - "Spring Awakening (Frühlings Erwachen)"

Poetry

*William Morris - "Poems by the Way"

Non-fiction

*"Black's Law Dictionary", 1st edition
*Errico Malatesta - "L'anarchia"

Births

*January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist (d. 1960)
* February 10 – Elliot Paul, American writer (d. 1958)
* August 1 - Edward Streeter, American humorist (d. 1976)
* October 6 - John Metcalfe, UK writer (d. 1965)
* December 26 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
*December 31 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912)

Deaths

* August 12 - James Russell Lowell, poet
* September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer
* September 28 - Herman Melville, author
* October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer
* November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet

Awards

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