1891 in literature
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See also: 1890 in literature, other events of 1891, 1892 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Guy de Maupassant is officially diagnosed as insane.
- Tristan Bernard has his first work published in La Revue Blanche.
[edit] 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
- Margaret L. Woods - Esther Vanhomrigh
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Two Penniless Princesses
- Unknown to History
- Émile Zola - L'Argent
[edit] New drama
[edit] Non-fiction
- Black's Law Dictionary, 1st edition
- Errico Malatesta - L'anarchia
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston, novelist (d. 1960)
- February 10 – Elliot Paul, American writer (d. 1958)
- August 1 - Edward Streeter, American humorist (d. 1976)
- December 26 - Henry Miller, writer (d. 1980)
[edit] 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
