1886 in literature

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See also: 1885 in literature, other events of 1886, 1887 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

• MLN: Modern Language Notes, an academic journal founded with the intention of introducing European literary criticism into American scholarship, is founded at the Johns Hopkins University.

[edit] New books

• Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys
• Edmondo De Amicis - Heart
• Leon Bloy - Disperato
• Rhoda Broughton - Doctor Cupid
• Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Hall Caine - A Son of Hagar
• Mary Cholmondeley - The Danvers Jewels
• Wilkie Collins
  • The Evil Genius
  • The Guilty River
• Marie Corelli - A Romance of Two Worlds
• George Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical
• Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
• William Dean Howells - Indian Summer
• Henry James - The Bostonians
• Jerome K. Jerome - The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
• George A. Moore - A Drama in Muslin
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• August Strindberg - Married I-II (short stories)
• Jules Verne
  • Clipper Of The Clouds
  • Robur The Conqueror
• Philippe Villiers - Eva Futura

[edit] New drama

• Anton Chekhov - On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
• W. B. Yeats - Mosada

[edit] Non-fiction

• Edwin Abbott Abbott - The Kernel and the Husk
• William Morris - A Dream of John Ball

[edit] Births

• January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (+ 1947)
• March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, poet and artist (+ 1980)
• September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet and memoirist (+ 1967)
• September 20 - Charles Williams, British author and member of the Inklings (+ 1945)
• November 1 - Hermann Broch, Modernist writer (+ 1951)
• November 21 - Harold Nicolson, British author
• December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, journalist (+ 1968)

[edit] Deaths

• May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet
• May 17 - Erskine May, constitutional theorist
• July 21 - Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, historian
• August 9 - Samuel Ferguson, poet
• November 22 - Mary Chesnut, diarist
• December 12 - Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist
• date unknown - Matilda Jane Evans, novelist

[edit] Awards