1890 in literature

1890 in literature

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"
**"The Scapegoat"
*Kate Chopin - "At Fault"
*Marie Corelli - "Wormwood"
*Arthur Conan Doyle
**"The Firm of Girdlestone"
**"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

*James Herne - "Margaret Fleming"
*Henrik Ibsen - "Hedda Gabler"

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 (+ 1938)
*February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (+ 1960)
*February 11 - John de Vries, writer
*March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (+ 1974)
*May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist
*May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist
*August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937)
*August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer
*September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945)
*September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)
*September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist
*November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet

Deaths

*September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist
*October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author
*October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of "Pinocchio"
*December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist

Awards

*Newdigate prize - Laurence Binyon


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