1884 in literature
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See also: 1883 in literature, other events of 1884, 1885 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- February 1 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
[edit] New books
- Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Tommy Upmore
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Ishmael. A Novel
- Wilkie Collins - 'I Say No'
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Controcorrente
- À rebours
- Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona
- George A. Moore - A Mummer's Wife
- Margaret Oliphant
- The Ladies Lindores
- The Wizard's Son
- Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Mary Augusta Ward - Miss Bretherton
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker (+ 1951)
- March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (+ 1941)
- August 8 – Sara Teasdale, poet (d. 1933)
- August 10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer (d. 1935)
- August 24 - Earl Derr Biggers, writer
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Hermann Ulrici, philosopher
- March 10 - William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist
- March 24 - François Mignet, historian
- April 5 - John Wisden, originator of the Cricketers' Almanack
- April 6 - Emanuel Geibel, poet
- April 11 - Charles Reade, English writer
- May 27 - Caroline Dexter, feminist writer
- May 28 - Joseph d'Haussonville, historian
- June 10 - Johann Gustav Droysen, historian
- October 16 - Paul Lacroix, novelist and journalist
- October 19 - Karl Hillebrand, literary historian and philosopher
- November 6 - William Wells Brown, African-American writer
- date unknown
- František Doucha, translator
- John Harris, poet
