1890 in literature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1889 in literature, other events of 1890, 1891 in literature, list of years in literature.
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.
- Arthur Morrison joins the staff of the Evening Globe newspaper.
[edit] 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
- Molly Elliot Seawell - Little Jarvis
- Jules Verne - César Cascabel
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The Way of Many Rivers
[edit] Non-fiction
- Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
- Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History
- James McNeill Whistler - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
